[FRIAM] Bernd Stelzer, The Higgs Boson - A one page explanation!

2011-07-27 Thread Owen Densmore
This is kinda nifty: answer a concrete question in a page or less. In 1993, the UK Science Minister, William Waldegrave, challenged physicists to produce an answer that would fit on one page to the question 'What is the Higgs boson, and why do we want to find it?'

Re: [FRIAM] Bernd Stelzer, The Higgs Boson - A one page explanation!

2011-07-27 Thread Douglas Roberts
Another might be: Why does water swirl the way it does going down the drain? Short answers only, please. --Doug On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: This is kinda nifty: answer a concrete question in a page or less. In 1993, the UK Science Minister,

Re: [FRIAM] Bernd Stelzer, The Higgs Boson - A one page explanation!

2011-07-27 Thread Victoria Hughes
Oh you all are going to have a field day with this one, I can see already. Howabout how many Friamistas does it take to change a lightbulb? The mind boggles. Tory On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Another might be: Why does water swirl the way it does going down the

Re: [FRIAM] Bernd Stelzer, The Higgs Boson - A one page explanation!

2011-07-27 Thread Douglas Roberts
I wouldn't do that to the FRIAM list. We're special. --Doug On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Victoria Hughes victo...@toryhughes.comwrote: Oh you all are going to have a field day with this one, I can see already. Howabout how many Friamistas does it take to change a lightbulb? The mind