What a great idea for a book, and what a great idea to get kids into science.
Particle physics pop-up
Physics central blog, November 9 2009.
Stumped by what to get for that picky particle physics buff on your Hannukah list? You’re in luck. CERN is about to debut a technolust-inspiring souvenir that’s science lesson and work of art all in one: a pop-up book of the ATLAS detector. Folded between its covers are Geneva, both above ground and 100 meters below, the Big Bang, and the complex architecture of ATLAS. Read more here.
We started so well! And then we stopped.
I like the tone of the next two articles, one quite gregarious and comical, the other brief and understated, all suitably unbelieving I feel.
Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette-bomber
The Register.co.uk, November 5 2009.
Exclusive A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher’s subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut. Read more here.
CERNS LHC Conked by bread.
Duniyalive.com, November 6 2009.
Mumbai: Well, this is yet another big project facing a small, very small problem. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) failed to perform as a piece of bread choked its cooling unit. Read more here.
