The CERN Choir performed this song about the quest for the Higgs particle (a quest that, reportedly, has very likely succeeded), using the Flanders and Swann tune from a song originally about “Mud, mud, glorious mud…” and a hippopotamus: (Thanks to investigator James Gillies for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: The Flanders and Swann song:
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Higgs, bosun
Investigator Kurt Verkest sends news of Higgs, bosun. He saw this report in the Seattle PI: Standing in front of the USS Independence in Bremerton, Bud Higgs, a retired Navy boatswain’s mate, holds a picture of the USS Washington. Higgs served on the Washington, a distinguished but little-known World War II battleship. BONUS (unrelated): The […]
Chickens, Consciousness, and the LHC
Dr. Dainis Zeps, a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia, is one of the very few to have investigated “hierarchical multitime notion and of the cone of creation” with reference to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. His paper on the subject, ‘On to What Effect LHC Experiment […]
Vi Hart doodle-muses on the discovery of “a Higgs-like particle”
Vi Hart, she of many mathematics-related artistic innovations, muses on the announced discovery of “a Higgs-like particle: (Thanks to investigator John Agle for bringing this to our attention.)
The overlooked Higgs particle patent
As we all (some of us) away Wednesday’s announcement from CERN about the discovery or non-discovery of the Higgs particle, let’s look at an unrelated achievement: the Higgs particle patent: “Particulate materials”, U.S. patent #5880177, issued to Robert Philip Higgs et al. on March 9, 1999. BONUS: Frank Wilczek talks about the Large Hadron Collider, CERN‘s […]
Ode Upon a Particle, of Doubt
A poem of sorts, in honor of the announcement that researchers at CERN may have found some evidence that might (and might not) indicate whether or not the hypothetical Higgs particle exists: Last night I saw beneath the stair A particle that wasn’t there. It wasn’t there again today. I wish it would just go […]
The elusive Higgs Bosun
The first reference to the search for the Higgs Bosun appeared in the UK’s daily national newspaper The Times on January 12, 2008, in an article, entitled : ’ “It” is still there – Humanity is hard-wired to explore’ which asked : “Does the Higgs Bosun particle exist? The truth is that we have no […]