Welcome to CNH’s Water Cooler, where fellow Hubsters commiserate and comment on current events, or whatever you like, while our boys Jon and Stephen are away.
The “God Particle” discovered! Sizzling temperatures roast the nation! TomKat call it quits! The events surrounding this edition of the “Water Cooler” are explosive, but perhaps not as bad as San Diego’s recent disastrous fireworks show. This post will surely last longer than 15 seconds.
Let’s get into it!
This model shows the energy released when 2 protons are collided. Source: AP Photo | CERN
On July 4th scientists at CERN, international particle laboratory and home of the behemoth Hadron collider, announced that they could finally confirm official discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, or so called “God particle.” This discovery further bolsters physicist’s understanding of the concept of vacuum and its relation to matter, which, I have gleaned from scanning articles, is potentially a very important discovery with long ranging implications with how we understand, use, and develop stuff. An interesting article by someone who actually understands this a lot better than myself is here.
Stephen has talked about astrophysics on TCR many times more than all the funny people on the TV combined, to be sure. He most recently jested about it in March 2012, when reports that CERN was getting close to identifying the particle was eminent:
Poking fun at Higgs Boson Humorists: “It’s funny, because two independent particle accelerators had correlating bumps in their data sets.”
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A little less theoretical and more tangible is the fact that our country has been set ablaze by ridiculously high heat, with wildfires in the West, massive power outages, and over 30 deaths attributed to the overpowering temperatures. And of course, the perfunctory idiots who leave their pets and young children in cars.
In a little mini “Look Back” Stephen warns John about the trajectory of increasing summer temps over the next 100 years (it’s just plain supply and demand economics, people!), and tries to tell us to “keep cool”:
Interesting celebrity news has seized the headlines, with the tabloids abuzz about TomKat’s marital implosion. I doubt very much Stephen would address what is surely a sad event for the couple, but at some point the media’s laser like focus on this story might be addressed. Or the fact that paparazzi are running Justin Bieber off the road. Also noteworthy this week that Anderson Cooper finally officially came out, although via an email to Andrew Sullivan. Anderson’s good people; and he purportedly came out in light of the anti-gay bashing and bullying that he himself has been covering on his program, so it was done in a particularly non-self serving light. Kudos to him.
So, valiant Hubsterdom, I turn the forum over to you:
What stories do you think Stephen and/or Jon would cover right now? Was there anything that happened this week which prompted you think, “Stephen would have totally talked about that”?
Feel free also just to chat around the CNH office’s Water Cooler. Fandom is also friend-dom.
Water Cooler — Sizzling July Edition
Welcome to CNH’s Water Cooler, where fellow Hubsters commiserate and comment on current events, or whatever you like, while our boys Jon and Stephen are away.
The “God Particle” discovered! Sizzling temperatures roast the nation! TomKat call it quits! The events surrounding this edition of the “Water Cooler” are explosive, but perhaps not as bad as San Diego’s recent disastrous fireworks show. This post will surely last longer than 15 seconds.
Let’s get into it!
This model shows the energy released when 2 protons are collided. Source: AP Photo | CERN
On July 4th scientists at CERN, international particle laboratory and home of the behemoth Hadron collider, announced that they could finally confirm official discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, or so called “God particle.” This discovery further bolsters physicist’s understanding of the concept of vacuum and its relation to matter, which, I have gleaned from scanning articles, is potentially a very important discovery with long ranging implications with how we understand, use, and develop stuff. An interesting article by someone who actually understands this a lot better than myself is here.
Stephen has talked about astrophysics on TCR many times more than all the funny people on the TV combined, to be sure. He most recently jested about it in March 2012, when reports that CERN was getting close to identifying the particle was eminent:
Poking fun at Higgs Boson Humorists: “It’s funny, because two independent particle accelerators had correlating bumps in their data sets.”
***
A little less theoretical and more tangible is the fact that our country has been set ablaze by ridiculously high heat, with wildfires in the West, massive power outages, and over 30 deaths attributed to the overpowering temperatures. And of course, the perfunctory idiots who leave their pets and young children in cars.
In a little mini “Look Back” Stephen warns John about the trajectory of increasing summer temps over the next 100 years (it’s just plain supply and demand economics, people!), and tries to tell us to “keep cool”:
Interesting celebrity news has seized the headlines, with the tabloids abuzz about TomKat’s marital implosion. I doubt very much Stephen would address what is surely a sad event for the couple, but at some point the media’s laser like focus on this story might be addressed. Or the fact that paparazzi are running Justin Bieber off the road. Also noteworthy this week that Anderson Cooper finally officially came out, although via an email to Andrew Sullivan. Anderson’s good people; and he purportedly came out in light of the anti-gay bashing and bullying that he himself has been covering on his program, so it was done in a particularly non-self serving light. Kudos to him.
So, valiant Hubsterdom, I turn the forum over to you:
What stories do you think Stephen and/or Jon would cover right now? Was there anything that happened this week which prompted you think, “Stephen would have totally talked about that”?
Feel free also just to chat around the CNH office’s Water Cooler. Fandom is also friend-dom.