ℹ️ README. Quarks, Spacetime, and the Big Bang (aka QS&BB), is an umbrella phrase that covers all of my research in elementary particle physics. It’s also the name of a course I created for non-science students at Michigan State University.
This site a continuation of that teaching…a repackaging of my course content from classical and contemporary topics in relativity, quantum mechanics, particle physics, and cosmology.
Logo for QS&BB.
Wait. What’s that logo about?
Glad you asked. Above the horizon is the sky as it would appear to you if you had microwave vision and shows the difference in temperature across the sky. It’s a baby picture of the universe taken when it only a few thousand of its 14 billion years old. Isn’t it cute? Below the horizon is a computer reconstruction of a proton-proton collision in my experiment, ATLAS, at the Large Hadron Collider at the international CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. I’ll talk a lot about what goes on here!
We’ll talk about what what both images mean, but I’ll mention here that the difference in the sky between red and blue? 1 part in 100,000 of a degree. Very smooth. Which is nice. But it’s also a problem. We’ll see.
I’ve prepared this site for a non-specialist audience (is that you?) and I hope you’ll enjoy the stories, and the pedagogy and learn something new with each post.
The site, “QS&BB” is a collection of blog posts, which I call “stories” and is my way of teaching. I tell stories.
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