Large Hardon Collider

[Max™]

*peeks out of my cave*

Damned kids...

*mumbles and goes back to my madness*

[Kaylia]

So not only do we know that Max is Pythagoras reincarnated, but now we also know that Kaylia is Archimedes reincarnated.

Or a closet exibisionist, but I will go with archimedes for now.

[Max™]

Can I call you Archie?

You can call me 'thagor, as I'm fond of odd divisions of names.

I often tell kids I see going by Josh, or Chris, that they could be Shua, or Topher.

[Woozie]

lol, I'm definitely going to start referring to my brother Drew as "And".

[Max™]

Huzzah!

I was a Shua for a while, then my girlfriend renamed me.

Normally I react violently to nicknames (I've literally picked people up and thrown them bodily through the air for it), but perhaps it was the combination of how Max fit's me, perhaps it was my freshly unsingle smoothness telling me to let the girl win... but maybe it was her big... round... gorgeous...






eyes....

http://i341.photobucket.com/albums/o...urtneyeyes.jpg


Fun fact: my mother almost named me after her dad, Arthur Maxwell, she said it was that or Joshua, and she didn't know how popular Joshua would be in the 80's... I fucking DESPISED being a Josh til I started going by Shua, but Max is right.

[Eliseos]

It's the end of the semester, and I'm looking for things to keep me occupied for the next month or so. What's everyone planning on reading over break (or if you aren't in school, over the next couple months)?

I've been looking at http://www.amazon.com/New-Kind-Scien...=3GE3TEVG4XJB5 It's by the same guy who wrote the Mathematica language (you might recognize the wolfram from wolfram-alpha), and it sounds pretty interesting. I had a class on computational theory that was interesting, but was very very difficult. I want to delve in this to see a more real life application of that class.

Another more on the physics side of things (and I think I've seen this one been mentioned here on more than one occasion) is http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Physic...=3GE3TEVG4XJB5 Last I heard he has a dry writing style, but was wondering if anyone actually delved into it?

[Shiroikage]

I am going to be reading papers and papers and papers.

[Mizango]

Going to try and finish this:

http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Moves-Ga.../dp/0393066509

[Tristam]

I am going to be reading papers and papers and papers.

This....

[Woozie]

Another more on the physics side of things (and I think I've seen this one been mentioned here on more than one occasion) is http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Physic...=3GE3TEVG4XJB5 Last I heard he has a dry writing style, but was wondering if anyone actually delved into it?

I actually downloaded that book on PDF file (from demonoid I think), but I wont get a chance to read it because of this:

I am going to be reading papers and papers and papers.

This....

[Tristam]

A CERN popup book? This is adorably geeky. Apologies if it's already been mentioned but I just found it.

http://popupbook.web.cern.ch/popupbook/spread3/

[Eliseos]

I guess that's one thing to look forward to (?) as a grad student, the semester never ends with the unending amount of papers.

A CERN popup book? This is adorably geeky. Apologies if it's already been mentioned but I just found it.

http://popupbook.web.cern.ch/popupbook/spread3/

Holy shit that is amazing.

[Tristam]

I guess that's one thing to look forward to (?) as a grad student, the semester never ends with the unending amount of papers.



Holy shit that is amazing.

The nature review is hillarious, they said something to the effect of "a lay reader wouldn't necessarily care if the inner detector were included in a full page popup spread, but a physicist would, so it's there".

[Eliseos]

Haha, that's awesome. I would feel no shame reading a pop-up book like that.

[Mizango]

A CERN popup book? This is adorably geeky. Apologies if it's already been mentioned but I just found it.

http://popupbook.web.cern.ch/popupbook/spread3/

Oh wow, that looks awesome lol.

[Max™]

Smolin has a writing style which I love... soooo, take that as you will.

[Kryssan]

So I finally got my hands on the 6.4GW Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric power plant report by Eugenio Kolesnikov compiled on October 12th. Unfortunately the way I got my hands on it was finding a copy on the site LAN and printing it out. So I have this 80+ page powerpoint in black and white so the pictures aren't the best and no security videos for you, but most of it is still readable and you can see some things. I'll work on scanning it into the computer over the weekend for you guys.

[Evensong]

And at the end of the book, boom...a pop-up Big Bang! lol

[Khamsin]

And at the end of the book, boom...a pop-up Big Bang! lol

That's only pages 7 and 8 (spread 4). I'd hope the book is longer than the 4 spreads shown. It's probably just a teaser showing the first chapter.

[Evensong]

That's only pages 7 and 8 (spread 4). I'd hope the book is longer than the 4 spreads shown. It's probably just a teaser showing the first chapter.

Oh, I read the part that says; "A pop-up Big Bang no less brings this unusual book to a close." And then yeah, it goes on; "Five different pop-ups relate the evolution of our universe from its hot dense beginnings to the present day and show the mysteries that the ATLAS experiment is trying to resolve." http://popupbook.web.cern.ch/popupbook/spread4/ So then it must be the last part with 5 pop-ups.

How do you know what pages they are?

My Physics is at about the level of pop-up books, so this book is a must for me!