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Probabilities and Particle Collisions

I was impressed when my husband, who participates in one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, first recounted the discovery of the top quark at the Tevatron Particle Accelerator in Batavia, Illinois. He told me about it shortly after we met, in the summer of 1998. I had already read some […]

The Word and What Is

I often get stuck in the gap we rarely notice between the word and what the word is meant to signify. Do we really understand what word and symbol actually do? Or, even more to the point, can we see what the body is accomplishing in the evolution of these cognitive tools?

In a film […]