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Lab/life parallels.
Gordon Watts reports being a bit unnerved when a pilot "rebooted" a plane before takeoff -- a trick he often uses in the lab. "This is frequently the exact advice I give people in DZERO when a bit of the Level 3 hardware I'm responsible for fails in some inexplicable way," he writes. "I don't know about you, but I prefer my planes not need to be power cycled to fly."
Both Debbie Harris and Makoto Fujiwara related their research to major life events: giving birth and proposing marriage. "I'm no expert in getting married (still single and kicking!)," writes Makoto, "but one of my ALPHA colleagues has done it three times, so we were probably helped by his experience." |
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Physics family reunion.
Particle physics is a small world, but Tommaso Dorigo was still surprised to see that his former summer student, Caolionn O'Connell, is also a quantum diarist. "So nice meeting you again!" he writes to her via his blog. "I'm so glad to see everything went well for you, and although I lost sight of you in the last few years, you look great and so does your research on plasma acceleration." He also managed to dig up an old photo of the summer research crew and post it on his blog, "totally unauthorized." |
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Making connections.
As José Ocariz writes, "Travel is a key feature of a researcher's life." The end of winter vacation is a particularly busy travel period for physicists, as they return to their labs to attend to their experiments.
"The trip back home now no longer a royal pain since EasyJet have started direct flights between Geneva and Bristol," Nick Brook writes with pleasure.
Jochen Weller, who currently lives in Illinois while working at Fermilab, is happy to be back in Cambridge, England, working and having fun with his friends.
Peter Steinberg reports that he spends much of his day in his car, which is where he gets many of his good physics ideas. "Some of my colleagues never get an hour or more per day to do nothing but think," he writes, "but I've somehow managed to design it in as a structural feature to my typical day." |
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