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8 Aug 11:50 pm
... unseen component of the standard model, the Higgs boson, which is thought to endow other particles with mass, Landsberg says. But Fermilab
could only beat the LHC to finding Higgs if the particle turns out to be relatively lightweight, allowing it to be produced reasonably often at the energies Fermilab can probe, he says. from "sign of the times", sott Remember when Judge Posner noted the inefficiencies of patents as a race? Look to the Higgs boson.
25 Feb, 2008 3:22 pm
So just off the phone with Bill Foster, a physicist from Illinois, Democrat, running in a special election to fill Dennis Hastert's seat. When I started to think about this run, Foster
was a model. A former researcher at Fermilab, and entrepreneur, he is precisely the sort a changed Congress would need. "Seven hours a day" on
the phone raising money. And with a Special Election just 10 days away, they're pushing to raise a final $200,000 to run an endorsement ad from Barack Obama. Seven hours a ...
8 Mar, 2008 9:19 pm
... line between metropolitan Chicago and Downstate Illinois. It gets close to 30 miles to Chicago's Loop, in Western DuPage County, with two great Chicagoland landmarks-Cantigny, the
estate of Colonel Robert McCormick, longtime publisher of the Chicago Tribune, and FermiLab, the world's fastest energy particle accelerator nd
employer of some 2,500 people-icons of political conservatism and high technology within two miles of each other. The 14th also contains the Fox River Valley … To the south is ...
28 Apr, 2008 6:35 pm
Experiment at Fermilab gave women fewer opportunities to present at conferences. Women are poorly represented in physics, making up just 10% of
faculty in the United States, for example, but the reasons for this have proved contentious. Now a particle physicist claims to have hard data showing institutional sexism at an
experiment at one of America's highest-profile physics labs. See also!!! Update: Link to full study here thanks to Historiann.
15 Jul, 2008 7:07 pm
A coded letter sent last year to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois has the lab, and outside coders stumped. The letter was sent anonymously last March in a
hand-addressed envelope via regular mail to the physics lab's public affairs office. After sitting on the letter for more than a year, the lab posted it on a physics blog in May, hoping
to get help cracking it. Thousands of sleuths have taken a stab at it so far and have succeeded to crack two parts of the letter. An ...
24 Oct, 2008 11:30 am
... LHC may also come from the fact that the LHC appears increasingly to be the only game in town for particle physicists wanting to work at the leading edge of discovery. In fact,
world's largest particle collider currently in operation, Fermilab's Tevatron outside of Chicago, Illinois, is slated for shutdown in 2010,
apparently in large part because the LHC will render it obsolete. Other particle accelerators planned for the future have had their funding suspended or cutoff.[1] A psychological or
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15 Nov, 2008 4:37 pm
The Atom Smashers chronicles three years in a decades-long international race to find one of the most elusive sub-atomic particles ever theorized. This trailer shows the work being
performed at Fermilab until its federal funding was cut for the Tevitron...
17 Jan 1:29 pm
I don't pretend to understand all of this, but apparently, Our world may be a giant hologram. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving
like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being
buffeted by the ...
17 Feb 7:16 am
The BBC reported on the race to discover the Higgs boson: Cern and Fermilab officials squared up at the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Chicago. Echoing themes in so-called races to patent, one had the quote: "It's a race. Whoever is first is first." See also:
http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2004/12/posner-on-pharma-patents.html http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2005/11/who-benefits-in-first-to-file.html
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