Happy Higgs Boson Day

The time has finally come for CERN to fire up the old Hadron Collider and find some God particles in a mini big-bang. I for one welcome our new black hole overlords.

Summary by PHD Comics

Cern and the large Hadron Colider from Radio National's The Science Show

Cern Colider ready for power up from the BBC

Paul Davies on Lateline

BBC Today's On the Hunt for the Higgs Boson. Contains audio of Stephen Hawkings talkling about the Large Hadron Colider

Darwin Rarities Online

Charles Darwin (along with that other Charles, Mr Sanders Pierce) died on the 19th of April, which just happened to be yesterday. To roughly coincide with the day, there has been a substantial new addition to the electronic catalogue of Darwin's writings at The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. The new release includes the first draft of his theory of evolution and The Decent of Man, notes from the voyage of the Beagle, Emma Darwin's recipe book, and reviews of his work from the time.

Inventor of Black Holes Dead

Keeping with posting obituaries several weeks after the event, John Wheeler, the theoretical physicist who coined the terms ‘Black Hole’ and ‘Worm Hole’ died last week on the 13^th of April. Wheeler had collaborated with Albert Einstein, and that is about as much as I know. Instead of trying to write up something more substantial, I have decided instead to link to an interview with Wheeler by Paul Davies, recorded in 2003 and played on Radio National’s The Science Show this weekend.