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.)