The Tevatron Shuts Down, Long Live The Tevatron!

The Tevatron Shuts Down, Long Live The Tevatron!

Tomorrow is the last day on duty. For twenty-six years the Tevatron collider, the four-mile-long accelerator of the Fermi laboratory in Batavia (IL), has provided the CDF and DZERO experiments with…
Script Of The TEDx Talk

Script Of The TEDx Talk

The organizers of TEDx Flanders did produce in a very timely manner very professional videos of the event, so you can follow offline the talks, including mine. However, what I said is not exactly…
Video of my talk at TEDx Flanders

Video of my talk at TEDx Flanders

The TEDx crew has been quite fast to make available on youtube the video of the presentation I gave together with Peter Woit in Antwerp yesterday. You can give a look at it here. Unfortunately the…
TEDx, the Higgs, and Whiskey

TEDx, the Higgs, and Whiskey

Yesterday's event at TEDx in Antwerp, in the gorgeous Flemish Opera, was followed by an enthusiastic audience of 1000. I spoke in the afternoon and tried to explain what it is that we do at CERN with…
What's Wrong With Those Neutrinos?

What's Wrong With Those Neutrinos?

Do you believe neutrinos can exceed the universal speed limit of 299792.458 km/s? Be careful before you respond with "yes". Rumor has it that the set of all people who believe superluminal speeds…
One Way Light Velocity Toward Gran Sasso

One Way Light Velocity Toward Gran Sasso

The people with the atom smashers, especially the ones at OPERA (Oscillation Project with E-tR Apparatus) in Italy’s Gran Sasso, announced to likely have a whopping 60 nano second systematic error…