Time for another installment of my ICHEP Journal. I kept notes on all the parallel sessions I attended. I tried to mix it up: astrophysics, heavy quark physics, spectroscopy and new states, computing. I tried to avoid topics that are typical to BaBar, things I ought to know, unless there […]
Daily Archives: August 11, 2006
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Our trip to Soudan began in San Francisco, hours after the TSA changed the carry-on rules for domestic and international flights. The arrest of 21 (now 24) suspects in and around London, England ignited a knee-jerk blanket ban on all liquids and gels on flights. People who didn’t wake up […]
It’s vacation! Where do physicists go on vacation? Well, some go to exotic locations with lots of people. I pack up and head to my wife’s experiment. She’s currently 2600 feet below the earth, about a mile from here. I’m sitting in our room in the “Simmons House”, one of […]