LASERS!?

Let me start this post by stating the obvious: lasers are awesome. However, this is not entirely due to the pioneering work of Dr. Evil.

Though one has to recognize his work.

Other than their use in popular fiction, lasers have a startling amount of applications in the real world, too, from running your CD player, to creating microchips, to wreaking havoc and destruction, to malfunctioning during PowerPoint presentations.

Higgs Boson 2: Boson Harder

Here's the story.

And another one. From the horse's mouth, so to speak. 

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the physicists at CERN... still haven't found the Higgs boson. But they're damn close. 

Here's what the announcement was about. Being a project of gigantic proportions, the Large Hadron Collider has many, many teams of scientists working on each project. Finding the Higgs boson is only one of the many things being researched, though certainly one of the most important. 

Like antimatter studies. Antimatter is awesome. 

Blinded by the Light

Being a scholarly man, I have naturally abhorrent eyesight. My visual acuity is about 20/500, in both eyes. When compared to the perfect eyesight of 20/20… I’m not doing too hot. But I wondered, as I put in my contacts for astigmatism, what that number actually measured. What does it mean? How is my eye so horribly out-of-whack?