Reference Frame

photon-atom entanglement

Aaron Sidney Wright — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:09:27 +0000

I thought this paper was really interesting, but I’d love to know exactly what they meant about ‘loophole’ free Bell’s inequality experiments. Is there a loophole left open these days? Is someone hiding a hidden-variable theory somewhere in a quantum-info group?

my life in 09

Aaron Sidney Wright — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:47:45 +0000

Credit: Cat and Girl

i’m not sure either of these applies to me

Aaron Sidney Wright — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:40:33 +0000

you know?

just kidding, friends. thanks marcy!

look at meeee

Aaron Sidney Wright — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:34:51 +0000

so I thought this (from my flickr) would be appropriate

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High Energy Reviews

Aaron Sidney Wright — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:05:42 +0000

I often have a hard time connecting the material (okay, vocabulary) in research papers to my existing, mostly ugrad understanding. (Att’n anyone surfing over from CV who has some resources.)
Some of the useful sites to remedy this that I’ve tracked down are after the jump.

SPIRES Reviews can be quite good for particle physics, but some of their headings are more aspirational than useful.

Something I stumbled across on my own is the review section in the PDG. I was sent there to check accepted particle properties, branching ratios etc for a project on ATLAS, and I find these reviews really useful.

For a guide to the field and plenty of lecture notes, Gerard ‘t Hooft is great, especially if you’re interested in being GOOD.

You can always plug “review” and “keyword i don’t understand yet” into arXiv but that can be a crude instrument.

If you have an institutional VPN or get your self to a library, Reviews of Modern Physics and IOP Reviews are good ones too.

Here’s hoping for comments!

dream desk

Aaron Sidney Wright — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:36:50 +0000

Siting at my cluttered ikea monstrosity, I saw this:

which I found only after one of those impossible-to-resist-but-oh-so-vapid nyt stories about things rich people in nyc can buy which, these days…
is of course tarted up with the feng shui (really) of a recession office. But the walnut is kinda nice. I think these guys have found a great way to manage my tangle of cables. If only there was space for a server in there…

where’s the horizon?

Aaron Sidney Wright — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:13:50 +0000

I thought this house was pretty fantastic.
Link stolen shamelessly from CV, but I’d add that it’s really worth it to watch the video made of the artists.

Photo credit: Kevin O’Mara

inspiration

Aaron Sidney Wright — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:59:29 +0000

or a kick in the butt. Reference Frame wasn’t on this list,
but it wasn’t on this one either, so I hope I’m in the clear.

Also, painfully aware of the lack of physics so far…

sympathy for the devil

Aaron Sidney Wright — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:48:38 +0000

The best thing about Sympathy for the Devil was probably the Richard Kern photographs. They had a beautiful (maybe 4×3′) print of this sonic youth lp.

Though I didn’t bring a notebook or a camera, so there is probably something I’m forgetting.
[edit] stuff i forgot:
Right, so I also really liked the Robert Longo charcoal/ink work:

pic from the nyt from the Chicago MAC

For Jen…

Aaron Sidney Wright — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:17:40 +0000

…so she can show people Millie’s friend from Chicago.

Millie and Mable

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