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The W and Z bosons are brain-eating zombies

Posted in Particle Physics, tagged , on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This Halloween I had a bit of a revelation. Between all the Sarah Palin costumes and dissertations on the physics of ghosts, I realized that the W and Z bosons are brain-eating zombies; a fact which helps to understand why physicists are trying so hard to find the Higgs boson. Let me explain.
First, what are [...]

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The LHC elects Obama

Posted in Science and Culture, tagged , , , on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

At least according to Steven Colbert. (It starts at minute 2:50)
(I’m still recovering and catching up on work from worrying about and then celebrating the election. Regular blogging to resume shortly.)

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Cute vs. Science

Posted in Science and Culture, tagged , , on November 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

A bit of a follow up on my Spore post. Seed magazine has an article about the design process used to create the game. As PZ notes, one of the big problems appears to be that they set up a “Science team” and a “Cute team”, and that the science team lost.
One part of the [...]

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