Where We’re At (Wordle-style)
Posted by Peter Steinberg on 22 Jul 2008 at 11:00 am
Cosmic Variance pointed me to it, and now I can’t stop using Wordle to analyze everything I am working on. Here’t the current version of this page, and the message seems to be loud and clear:
“ATLAS beam good LHC now point really ready still work”
or maybe
“beam now ready”
Sounds good to me, but one thing still mystifies me: where are the other experiments?
Or perhaps, it should be:
Beam now ready? Really still, well, weeks.
I also see: “students work.”
We are waiting, we are waiting!
As a physics groupie, I’m honored to see that my work is essential to the success of the LHC.
By the way, there’s technically a chance that hitting the “Randomize” button will lead to a black hole of sub-atomic radius and attosecond duration, causing your mousing finger to be crushed by momentary tidal forces, but you’d have to click it twice a second for 4.7 quintillion years, so, enjoy!
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