Posters arrived in the mail.
03.03.2026 10:24
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Posters arrived in the mail.
To the point. ♥️
Bonjour.
Aurora lights, City Observatory at Calton Hill
[4 AM pic taken by Edinburgh @edinburghppe.bsky.social PhD student Yiming Liu]
"It seems to be a lesson of history that the commonplace may be understood as a reduction of the exceptional, but the exceptional cannot be understood as an amplification of the commonplace.”
— Edgar Wind (1967)
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Dusk.
Um, let me help you.
Every single lecture is carefully planned, advertised ahead of time, and delivered according to the schedule. Which is the opposite of 'random'.
You are welcome. 😊
Come to Edinburgh to work with our colleagues on LHCb!
The European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) aims to shape the future of physics with high-energy accelerators.
What advances do we expect to make in fundamental physics with the next collider?
- 3 years of studies
- documented in 288 pages
- by 369 contributors
- with 1,477 references
Brutal.
"A high precision W mass measurement at CMS".
Friday afternoon Particle Physics Experiment @edinburghppe.bsky.social seminar at Edinburgh given by Josh Bendavid.
In the animation above, you see the approximation of a square wave if we only consider the first four terms (n=1, 3, 5 and 7).
Credit for the illustration: Sungwon Park
Code at: gist.github.com/.../b10d86dd...
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A square wave can be expressed as the infinite sum of odd sine waves with ever-decreasing amplitudes and periods. This is an example of a Fourier transform, a powerful tool in maths & physics that can be used for encoding/decoding information stored in waves. 1/2
Meeting room booked by students. 🙄
That's some serious beef there between Cabibbo and Gell-Mann.
"20 years ago, I used to find the anthropic interpretation of the universe upsetting, in part bc of the difficulty it might present in understanding physics. Over the years I have mellowed. I suppose I reluctantly came to accept the universe was not created for our convenience in understanding it."
11:30 AM, one day after Winter Solstice.
Look how low on the horizon the sun is.
Ouch.
Ben & Sally reading "The Little Robot & the Mars Mystery", a Xmas story for children at the Particle Physics Experiment Xmas group meeting.
Particle Physics Experiment (@edinburghppe.bsky.social) Xmas group meeting.
Ben & Sally (@girliknow.bsky.social) reading "The Little Robot & the Mars Mystery", a Xmas story for children (and physicists, I guess).
[*] e.g. gender, minority ethnicity, disability, disadvantaged circumstances, etc.
The School of Physics & Astronomy invites applications for the 2025 Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship. This four-year Fellowship specifically supports early-career, postdoctoral researchers from backgrounds that are under-represented in the School’s academic community [*]
www.ph.ed.ac.uk/research/res...
“What man among you has a hundred forty scripts for marking, and if one of them should be lost, would not leave the hundred and thirty nine in the wilderness and go seek that one which is lost until he would find it?”
The MacDonald Equation, by Freeman Dyson
At the School of Physics & Astronomy, Univ of Edinburgh.
A bit of a specialised paper title, but definitely a very accessible abstract.
I am following lots of epidemiologists, Brexit, and Russia experts.
I am not following enough Korea experts. 🫤
