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Trivia about time, to be precise. Prior to my current job, my knowledge of timekeeping was pretty much knowing how to read and adjust a clock, and because I’m a physicist, Einstein synchronization (basically accounting for propagation delay of light) and the effects of general and special relativity. All of the physics-related exercises [...]
A friend emailed me with a link about the LHC, and poses this question:
If one of their micro-black holes gets away from them, will the lab go “moob!”?
(Back when he and I were teaching nuclear stuff for the navy, it was standard practice to represent pair-production as going “foop!”)
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