Morning Metro: AJC’s All About Transportation, Celeb Sighting, and Explaining Higgs
Decatur Metro | July 9, 2012
- Beltline’s expenses raise some eyebrows [AJC]
- Does T-SPLOST pave way to Atlanta’s economic future? [AJC]
- Word on the street: Vince Vaughn dining at C&A on Saturday [@Carl]
- Chef Todd Richards takes over at The Shed at Glenwood [TNT]
- GA will get $2 billion from transportation bill [WABE]
- Georgia’s first big solar project up and running [Macon Telegraph]
- Christopher Buckley explains the Higgs boson [NYT]
Higgs event courtesy of Wikipedia
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Loved the Higgs boson article. Wild, wacky particle physicists! Followed some links from there and found out that the term “God particle” was originally intended to be the “Goddam particle”.
Keeping my fingers crossed that this does not mean the end of Wednesday Slider Night at The Shed. I need my occasional Pork Schnitzel With Pear Jam fix.
One of my favorite physics blogs is this one. I think the name says it all.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
I wish I was cool enough to have a favorite physics blog! I’m going to use this one as my favorite for now if people ask in casual conversation.
My favorite animated explanation of Higgs: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120501.html
Thanks, Garrett. That was terrific.
That is really wonderful. Actually a bit illuminating for somebody who hasn’t been in a “hard science” classroom for several decades. (Unlike listening to physics Nobel prize winner on “Fresh Air” last fall — trying to grasp his explanation of why they now think the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and how they figured it out, gave me a brain cramp.)
Besides being a ambulance chasing attorney, I also have, believe it or not, a PhD in molecular biology. And even I am not ashamed to admit that I have no idea what this Higgy-Bison particle is all about. In fact, I’m convinced that the entirety of modern physics is a scam and that the only Nobel Prize these jokers should be vying for is the one for fiction!
Pulled my Higgs boson once when I was mountain biking. Hurt like hell for a week.
We can debate the definition of “big,” but this is certainly not the first significant solar installation in Georgia. That would be the Hickory Ridge Landfill solar installation just south of Atlanta, a one-megawatt (enough to power 224 homes) solar plant built on top of a closed landfill using flexible photovoltaic panels attached to the membrane covering the landfill. Opened last year. I covered it personally and have visited it twice. You can read my report and see photos and video here: http://waste360.com/landfill-solar-projects/republic-cuts-ribbon-worlds-largest-solar-landfill