{"id":558,"date":"2007-05-15T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T15:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=558"},"modified":"2007-08-06T14:10:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T19:10:56","slug":"all-lhc-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"All LHC, all the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LHC media blitz is in full swing, with last week’s long New Yorker article now followed by an unusually long and detailed New York Times piece titled A Giant Takes On Physics’ Biggest Questions<\/a>. Dennis Overbye does an excellent job of covering the story. Besides the experimentalists actually involved in building the machines, he quotes theorists John Ellis, Joe Lykken, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Michelangelo Mangano. To distinguish this piece from the New Yorker one, here it’s Mangano who is the one who consumes a lot of espresso. There are side-bars about the recent problem with the Fermilab magnets<\/a> and about the implications for string theory<\/a> (not much). There’s a multimedia component to the Times coverage, with interactive graphics<\/a>, a slide show, a podcast<\/a> (an interview with Arkani-Hamed, described as “one of the physicists at the center of the project”), and a video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I do fear all this LHC coverage is peaking too early. With still probably at least a year to go before the machine even starts taking data, the coverage may already be generating an LHC overexposure problem: see Chad Orzel’s new posting Tired of the LHC<\/a>. If Chad is already complaining about this, boy is he going to be grumpy about it by a year from now…<\/p>\n

The New Yorker keeps its physics theme going this week with cover art<\/a> that includes a blackboard full of basic equations from quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n

The NY Times article includes the usual not very cogent explanation of the role of the Higgs. For something much better aimed at explaining Higgs-hunting to the general public, see the online interactive presentation Hunt for Higgs<\/a>, part of a web-site about the LHC called Big Bang<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blogging may be light the next week or so since I’ll be traveling. First stop is Trieste, where I’ll be speaking at 5pm on Friday as part of a large event there called FEST<\/a>. From there I’ll make brief visits to Geneva, Paris and London, back here in New York late next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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