Poignant and funny moment from CN Yang memorial, was Marilyn Simons recalling her and Jim’s friendship with him and still having the old dictionary the YITP gave Jim for the talks that started the connection of Physics/Math through YM theory(bc Jim was a bad speller😅) 🧪⚛️ @simonsfoundation.org
Incredible news of CN Yang’s lasting impact, thanks to Drs. Zhang and Luo for their generous gift that helps the Yang Institute for Theoretical physics carry on his legacy into the future @stonybrooku.bsky.social ⚛️🧪
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Interesting Yang anecdotes, he often is remembered for opposing Chinese particle colliders, but he actually wanted his institute to go into accelerator physics. Physics is an experimental science and the machines are becoming too big and so he thought it was imperative to come up with smarter ways⚛️🧪
George Sterman beginning the scientific/personal part of the symposium honoring CN Yang’s contributions to Stony Brook university and beyond ⚛️🧪
Any other LEP experiments going this way? Could really use some DELPHI help…
Job alert: Data preservation for ALEPH data. I worked on ALEPH as a student, and as a junior faculty member analyzed archived ALEPH data to search for the Higgs.
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Gotta say @f1tv.bsky.social is a lot more interesting this year so far!
Such a cool way to show people the “invisible” microscopic world whizzing around them! ⚛️🧪
The ultimate area denial weapon against parents now has a stealth mode 😒🤬
Morning commute snow in NYC feels like adding insult to injury right after a historic blizzard
Trying to plan R&D for long term scientific projects in the current funding environment ⚛️🧪
These cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world
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So just to clarify is this just rejecting the additional EU funding outside of the normal CERN contribution or something else?
You definitely want to learn to stop saying, "I am SO OLD!" long before the people to whom you're saying it just look at you in response with expressions that say, "I mean...yes."
I wonder if that will make CERN council pushback more and be less of a rubber stamp than with the prior DG?🧐
It’s an interesting lesson for today when we’ve become accustomed to developing one mega project at a time. Takes decades of development, but running experiments can easily erode the scientific case. So you have to balance ambition and flexibility, but the later is anathema to project management.
This seems especially short sighted by the UK after just having a Brit start as the CERN DG www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Latest batch of the Epstein files has plenty more physicists. Going through them slowly, in no particular order.
Yep completely agree with the sentiment about time scales. We're just in a difficult period historically since we need more collective effort/funding to push in some directions where we know what we'd like to look at and what we need, but r&d is always the first thing to get cut to support projects
The article is good but not sure it’s hard to know what to think about or look for, just hard to look resource wise/technologically🧐
I'll go with hard. The existential questions about our universe and EWSB have only become sharper since the LHC, the problem is that only collider experiments are relevant for them generically. If the world were less myopic now we'd invest more in R&D, but accelerator breakthroughs take time/suport🧪
Science and Technology Facilities Council told staff it needs to reduce its spending by £162 million by 2029-30, requiring “substantial savings” to be made. 😬
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As if the dodgers didn’t have already enough advantages spending ~100M more per year than every other team 😂😂
@cern.bsky.social 's Future Circular Collider program is scientifically well motivated.
However, concerns remain regarding financing, tech development and locking the community into a long term vision.
Prof @johnwomersley.bsky.social explains!
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Hard to imagine ever replacing the local bodega in NYC but then again it’s set against the swarm of Amazon delivery workers that descend on city streets everyday so 🤷🏻♂️
Did you know that your old TV was an in home particle accelerator?
Old cathode ray tube TVs generated particles, accelerated them, diverted them, and smashed them into a phosphor coated screen to create images!
Link: www.youtube.com/shorts/4rPRg...
#physics
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Definitely one way to tell people even more explicitly to get on the same page 🤣 hopefully CERN councils definition of appropriate in appropriate level of support for future looking r&d is bigger picture appropriate…
European particle physics strategy update summary 😅
