There’s a day for everything, even for Pi! An guess what, its today!
Simply because these crazy Americans write their date in a funny way (dd/mm).
Isn’t it great! Anway, the best Pi Day ever was actually March 14th 1592 (3.1415926535…).
But for some reason people didn’t appreciate it that much back than!?
It was March 14th 1988 they first started thinking about the relevance of this number and therefore founded the Pi Day.
Yesterday I came back from the Annual Spring Meeting of the German Physics Society in Freiburg. One week of more or less interesting talks, presentations and discussions on and about particle physics. Accompanied by some stuff about gravitation, astro-physics and other subjects.
Besides some good talks in the partcile physics sessions, it turned out that the other subjects were actually the best part.
You might ask, what other subjects means … good question!
First of all it means: speakers with private addresses not affiliated with any institute or university!
Hmm, you might ask why’s that … again good question!
Well, if you see the theories/idea/experiments, you know why!
My personal favourite, a guy exlaining everything utilising the E8 group! And when I say everything I mean it, or better he does! From the amino acids, on to the origin of mass, til the description of the fundamental constants.
Simply amazing …Another guy was creating anti-gravitation using an improved version of his 12-vacuum-cleaner-engines-machine, and a third one was proving that the heat production in the earth is cause by the moon’s rotation around it, or something like that …
I actually made some movies, but they are unfortunately in German only.
The ATLAS e-News recently published an article written by Troels (my former supervisor) about the forseen precision measurement of the W boson mass at ATLAS. Illustrating the development of the measured value and its uncertainty and giving a short summary of the results we published in our note (to be published soon, hopefully).
I am, amoung others, also mentioned in the end :-)
(picture from LEP EWWG)
This is your one last chance to enter CERN’s fascinating world of science and technology!
This is literally gonna be the coolest place in the universe!
You can visit the tunnel and all experiments for the last time!
Yesterday I had a little meet and greet with Peter Jenni, the spokesman of the ATLAS experiment. He has given a sort of “understandable-for-everyone” talk in the Helmholtz Lectures Program at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Afterwards we’ve been invited to a little reception, where I had the chance to talk a bit to our btw. very nice spokesman about this and that … unfortunately no pictures have been made this evening :-(
