And I would wholeheartedly recommend trusting Nimish’s site and all his brilliant utterances. Remembering his youth, of course. And if you have a chance to listen to Radiohead, I recommend that too, cantueso.

I don’t mind Palin, I don’t care, but I do not want EVER in all my life, not even on line, come across one of the bitches that will vote for a thing like that.

Please wait here while I go get my ten foot pole. A thing like what? Politics in the USA has become so ridiculously polarized that it’s impossible to take seriously. But ultimately, one must vote.

I saw your new blog and even wrote a message concerning your reflections on trust and respect. But when I wanted to send it in, a new page opened asking whether I wanted to (don’t remember what) my identity (don’t remember where).
What is that?
Looks odd.

Well, I don’t know B&G, the David Levine you described in your email sounds a lot more interesting to me than me.

Maybe it’s all “quantum” – my wavefunction inhabits the spacetime of the US for a little while every day – when no one is looking, and thus when the function is not collapsed… Or something…

You most definitely exist Mr. 42, with or without your collapsed wave function. And thank you for existing!

The beam has circulated 30 minutes in the LHC!
12/09/2008.

Last night around 2 a.m. the beam circulated for the first time for about 30 minutes in the clockwise ring of the LHC. This confirms that the accelerating cavities are working well. During the night, the LHC team also increased the intensity of the single bunch to around 1/20th of the nominal LHC bunch intensity.

You can follow the beam commissioning daily reports on:
https://lhc-commissioning.web.cern.ch/lhc-commissioning/dailynews/index.htm

Is this supposed to make me feel better? Any interpreters out there??

Nice find lakecrazy! These look to be the scribbled notes of the true physicist nerds. I think that all we need to know here is that they are smashing protons into each other and into lead nuclei and then tracing what flies out of these collisions. They are collecting petabytes of data and looking for very rare events in an attempt to see whether the “Standard Model” of physical reality will prevail over the more exotic models like string theory and the like. A friend sent me this really great article from Nature.

Wow, I would have thought that there’d be more Sarah Levines. Oh well, I guess 102 is enough. Let’s choose to believe that Carl exists when we are able to see him. Maybe when he’s off at work he stops existing. A little. I think we all do that. Maybe.

Wow, you DO got me beat. Your anonymity is safe here. IMHO, anonymity IS ludicrous in general, since we are all pretty much nobody anyway. I fondly recall your office door festooned with various misspellings of your name. What a fun display that was.

I learned a lot of interesting stuff about the LHC, how it was built etc.

Still not too sure about it though.

There are 26 people in this country that I share my name with. If you saw my reaction of being told you were the ““John Smith” of Jewish names” it would definitely be reaction #3.

I think I will skip the FPA tool. I’ve got .19 cents in my account and no cash or credit. I don’t own a house or a car. I have given everything I own to my daughter. So I don’t have to think about money. I like it that way.

Nineteen cents is completely respectable. It’s like almost a quarter. Reaction #3 is what I usually get. None of us really owns anything anyway.