The Adventures of My Pet Hamster
The Personal Blog of Stephen Sekula
The Adventures of My Pet Hamster
Physics

Richness of kaons

by |Published

Yesterday at the talk on going from postdoc to your first tenure track job, the panel warned us not to go do the same thing we did in grad school. This shows your flexibility as a scientist, allegedly making you a abetter candidate. Today, as I watch how the long devotion to kaon physics led to great discoveries about nature, I see a different lesson. The lesson is: if you love a thing, sticking with it brings great suffering, and great reward.

Related posts:

  1. The Two-Body Problem: a netcast!
  2. Off To Jacksonville!
  3. Bad debate obscures an important issue
  4. The Theory of Spin-offs – Part 2: Applications to HEP

AUTHOR

steve
I am a husband, son, and physicist. I am Research Group Manager in the Research Division at SNOLAB and a Professor of Physics at Queen's University. I like to do a little bit of everything: writing, running, biking, hiking, drumming, gardening, carpentry, computer programming, painting, drawing, eating and sleeping. I earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I love to spend time with my family. All things written in here are my own, unless otherwise attributed.

You may also like

ICHEP: a travelogue
Published

ICHEP: a travelogue

When I traveled to ICHEP in Moscow in 2006, I kept a small leather-bound journal in my pocket to keep a record […]

Hunting the invisible
Published

Hunting the invisible

The BES collaboration has “recently reported results in a search for invislbe decays of the eta meson”:http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0607006. This is interesting, because I […]