quarks

Fascinating stuff. The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration today announced results that confirm the existence of exotic hadrons – a type of matter that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model. Hadrons are subatomic particles that can take part in the strong...

I know that there a lot of LHC threads but I thought this news deserved it's own. http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2010/11/Large%20Hadron%20Collider%20achieves%20first%20lead%20ion%20collisions.aspx Pretty cool, huh?

This is one of the oldest (since 1993) and best german TV-Science Shows, presented by the honorable Ranga Yogeshwar. Here is the link: http://podcast.wdr.de/quarks.xml As an appetizer (Appetithäppchen) i recommend the episode about self-deception.

Hi all There's some minimal interest in getting together at the Star Trek Experience on Thursday night at TAM. I personally don't want to pay to do the whole experience thing again (although if you haven't done it, I highly recommend it - it's a lot of fun, if you are a star trek geek) but I...