This weekend, as in last weekend, the San Francisco bay area is under a severe wind advisory. Last weekend, this meant nearly 100 mph winds in the bay around San Francisco, and 50 mph winds where I live. A series of rather unpleasant winter storms, gliding down the coast from Alaska, have wrought havoc on California these past weeks. <\/p>\n
\nMuch like the wind gusting over my house, progress in my research often comes in huge fits that knock over fences and bow windows. The several research project I work on in the BaBar Collaboration are all accelerating at an exciting and feverish pace. As I wrote over a week ago, on the eve of my collaboration meeting, I was obsessed with making progress on research I had only tasted in spoonfuls over the past few months. The meeting itself brought great ideas, and this week saw rapid progress on many fronts.<\/p>\n
\nThere is nothing more satisfying to a physicist than to actually move forward on something which once seemed fruitless but always should have been fruitful. I guess wishful thinking can sometimes be the savior of a project, but only when there actually is an interesting side to it. On all of my research fronts, this week brought great leaps forward. If I can keep this kind of progress up, while still keeping my health, I suspect that summer will be most exciting for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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