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When I regularly taught university # physics , I would save time at the end of each semester for "special topics". Students would suggest ideas about 1 month before end of term. A few weeks later they would rank-vote the ideas. The top 1-2 would then be turned into special topics lectures. I made these available for public viewing; for the # fediverse I have a # peertube …
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From AkaSci@fosstodon.org on Mastodon: Current conditions and forecast for space/solar weather today. Kp index is currently at 6, but will drop and rise again to 6 after midnight UTC. Aurora watchers in Europe and N. America will get some nice views. https://www. swpc.noaa.gov/communities/spac e-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard # SolarWeather # Aurora 6/n
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The story of my second # book "The Friendly # Physics Guide to Nuclear and Particle Physics in Modern Medicine", starts with student suggestions and a very encouraging publisher. It ends with the first step in a series of books intended to help the public and especially university-level students who just suffered through introductory physics (re)discover love for physics.…
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From Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org on Mastodon: Hello, # FediBookFair ! I am an indigenous poet with 2 independently published volumes of poetry out, covering topics of love, loss, and healing available at http://www. nihtgengapress.com # Poetry # IndigenousCreatives # IndieAuthor
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From gutenberg_org@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell died # OTD in 1879. He was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism
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From jimfrost@mastodon.scot on Mastodon: When the Red Alert goes off. A fine display of the Aurora last night over Kinlochbervie # Aurora # Sutherland # Scotland
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From AkaSci@fosstodon.org on Mastodon: Here is the aurora forecast for North America for tonight and tomorrow night. Tomorrow night looks promising for Canada and perhaps for the northern U.S. states. https://www. swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora- viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental # SolarWeather # Aurora 3/n
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From mcnees@mastodon.social on Mastodon: The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), completed in 1965, is just down the road from the X-10 site. If you like well-designed control panels from the 1960s, please enjoy this beauty. A true 👨ðŸ³ðŸ¤ŒðŸ’‹ of a control panel.
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Hey, while I have got your attention let me aim some light at my co- # author , S. James Gates, Jr. Jim is awesome. He's recent past president of the American Physical Society and an excellent theoretical physicist. He's also been an inspiration to me in the way I engage students in the research enterprise. Learn more: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/24175. http://statu…
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So what is "Reality in the Shadows"? It's the story of the cosmos as we understand it now. It's a glimpse at how ideas, technology, and observations merge to make a consistent, useful, and reproducible understanding of reality. It's also honest about the limits of knowledge and what we know we DON'T know right now. But if anything, it's a story of how humans have, time an…
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My part in the story of "Heck" took more than a year. While my fingerprints (mixed with those of my co- # authors ) are all over the final version of the book, my most direct contributions were Chapter 5, "Finding Reality"; Chapters 6 and 15, "What the Heck's the Higgs?" Parts 1 and 2; and chapter 7, "A Sky of Shadows". I recently shared this for # DarkMatterDay , but you…
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The publisher, Otto, as well as Frank and Jim were happy enough with my comments that they conspired to invite me to join the # writing party. We did all our communicating by phone. To this day, I have never met my co- # authors in person. Sadly, I will never get to meet Frank, as he passed away a few years ago. We did everything by email + phone. My first task was to tak…
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So how did I become involved in "Heck"? Enter two other important characters in the story. When the project stalled after the # Higgs discovery, Frank and Jim decided they wanted a third party to look over the book to see if they should keep going. Frank's grandson was a student at my university, SMU, and knew I was a physicist. He asked if I might want to review the manu…
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If you are curious about the day the # Higgs particle was discovered, I have an audio diary I made as part of a short podcast series I did back in the early teens. This episode takes audio I captured the day the discovery was announced by the # CMS and # ATLAS experiments and mixes them in with my commentary. https:// http://status.hackerposse.com/url/24788 alleys/2012/07…
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I am not 100% clear on the details, but the abbreviated version of the next step for "Heck" was something like: Frank took a course from S. James Gates Jr. (Jim Gates), approached him about joining the book project, and Jim (being awesome) agreed. A supersymmetry theorist and a rocket scientist were now embarked on a # writing project. Then the # Higgs particle was discov…
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"Reality in the Shadows", or just "Heck" for short, began long before I was a co- # author . It was a passion project of Frank Blitzer, a literal rocket scientist (he worked on the Apollo moon missions, especially the guidance system). He was fascinated by subatomic # ParticlePhysics . So he set about trying to write this book for his kids/grandkids. So he told it, he mad…
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This weekend is the # FediBookFair ! I am the (co)#author of two non-fiction books (with more on the way … more about that on Sunday): “Reality in the Shadows (or) What the Heck’s the Higgs?” and “The Friendly Physics Guide to Nuclear and Particle Physics in Modern Medicine (Volumes I and II)”. Today, I’ll share some stories about # writing “Reality in the…
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Saw this kinda awesome helicopter thing swooping over the neighborhood this morning. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/9af9f9206af2e6fe470620efb1abed81fac39df19d786fca34f14c9e32135e79/view
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When a # cat tucks himself into an enclosure one size too small. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/4c54cd48c1e0ce66aff119caa5020b0562b180abf20817f1c44a0b4d7901963c/view
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From shadowserver@infosec.exchange on Mastodon: 36 IPs seen last 24 hours testing for Atlassian Confluence CVE-2023-22518 critical RCE. POST requests to '/json/setup-restore.action'
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