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Blake L

@BlakeDL

🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪, Dr (PhD), physicist. I like to bake and build particle detectors.

 Heidelberg,Germany
Joined March 2008
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make it stop
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Today’s brilliant idea…
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Next Monday milling of a first new @LHCbExperiment VELO RF box will start again @_nikhef
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Recording the first collisions of 2023 !
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Image from LHCb Experiment (@LHCbExperiment)
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Best new programming book!
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People who subscribe to Merriam-Webster Red™ will get exclusive access to the real definitions.
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Word of the Day (again) is ‘quiddling’ (18th century): busying oneself with trivial tasks as a way of avoiding the important ones.
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About to commission the Miw-on stations.
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Word of the day (already) is ‘dumfungled’, from the 19th century: used up, worn out, and entirely spent.
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European freeze coming to an end right now with a huge surge of warmth bulldozing in from the Atlantic. Some places are more than 20°C warmer by night.
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Lord of the Rings
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@Rainmaker19739 Oct 2022
This video is a majestic visualization of the toroidal structure and flow of a smoke ring [detailed scheme: buff.ly/3EBZhzQ] [physics: buff.ly/3CcOcmc] [📹 Titus Edwards: buff.ly/3elWaBB]
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BEAUTY QUARK! – at La Rippe, Suisse
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SEE THE THING ABOUT MUON COLLIDERS IS THAT WEVE JUST NEVER DONE IT BEFORE YOU KNOW THERES NEW HIGH ENERGY THERES NEW LEPTON GENERATIONS AND LIKE WITH THE LACK OF EVIDENCE FOR SUSY WE JUST REALLY NEED TO COVER ALL GROUND POSSIBLE
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Word of the day is 'mafting' (18th century): overpowered by stifling heat and an oppressive lack of air.
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CERN
@CERN18 Jun 2022
#LHCRun3 is about to start! 🤩 Since #restartingLHC, CERN experts have been hard at work to recommission the #LHC for its third run, called Run 3. Join us live on 5 July, 16.00 CEST to celebrate this milestone with the first-ever collisions with stable beams at 13.6 TeV! ⬇️

Live from CERN: teaser

Join CERN scientists live on 5 July, 16.00 CEST to the upcoming physics season. The live will be broadcasted in English on Twitter, and in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish on Youtube.

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Today the installation of the @LHCbExperiment A-side upgrade VELO detector into the vacuum chamber starts. Two GoPro cameras are installed. @_nikhef
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Image from Marco Kraan (@MarcoJKraan)
Image from Marco Kraan (@MarcoJKraan)
Image from Marco Kraan (@MarcoJKraan)
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About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors doctorow.medium.com/about-th…
About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors

About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors

What John Deere did to Russian looters, anyone can do to farmers, anywhere.

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Taylor Series xkcd.com/2605
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St George testing the dragon for covid
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Whoever made this is my new favorite person.
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