We need and love Great Questions, but ever since Galileo, science has also advanced by asking and answering small questions: arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348

Perspectives and Questions: Toward an Expansive Agenda for Particle Physics

Global celebration greeted the 2012 discovery at CERN's Large Hadron Collider of a particle that matches the textbook description of the Higgs boson. That achievement validated a remarkable chain of t...

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The Upshot@upshot.nytimes.com · 6d ago

"Responses poured in from biochemists, quantum physicists, archaeologists, oceanographers, Nobel Prize-winning biologists, geoscientists, entomologists, you name it." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...

From 34,000 feet over Greenland, congratulations to Francis Halzen and IceCube. A fine choice by the Nobel Committee! I look forward to many more superb results and—with luck—some off-scale surprises. And kudos to the National Science Foundation as we have known it for enlightened support!

Words for Civic Leaders, Canterbury Cathedral, 21st September:

And many more!

CERN@cern.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy birthday CERN! 🎉 #OnThisDay 72 years ago, CERN officially came into being, bringing together 12 founding Member States with a shared vision for science and international collaboration. Discover the story behind 72 years of science: home.cern/about/who-we...

Toasting Peter Higgs with his treasured London Pride (in Ramsgate, Kent)!

On an overnight stop in Walmer/Deal (Kent, UK) this reminder of the DESY collider that gave evidence for the gluon’s reality.

I am sad to report that a formidable colleague, Ken Lane (Boston U), has died. Ken made many notable contributions, among them his work on the Cornell charmonium model, dynamical symmetry breaking in the form of extended technicolor, and supercollider physics. He shared the 2011 Sakurai Prize. RIP!

Congratulations to the new CMS leadership team and best wishes to the Collaboration for the march toward HL-LHC! cms.cern/index.php/ne...

Crossing The Pond for Season XXV of village-to-village hiking, exceptionally this year in Kent, UK.

You can listen to the audiobook Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs boson and New Laws of Nature (by Bob Cahn and me) on Audible, Spotify, etc., or for free with a library card on Hoopla.

Celebrating two editions of Grace in All Simplicity

An excellent plan to create a visitor centre honoring JCM. Will support in memory of J. D. Jackson, Master of Classical Electrodynamics.

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last mo.

Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

As a new academic year approaches, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic... for a seminar course in particle physics or enrichment.

Grace in All Simplicity

An enthralling and accessible account of humanity’s quest to make sense of our physical world, told through interwoven tales of inspiration, traged...

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At the beginning of a new academic year,

Chris Quigg@chrisquigg.com · 2y ago

Periodic reminder that additional references and a few corrections for Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions bit.ly/1nAZIwa may be found at bit.ly/GT2refs

Available today on your favorite audio platform! rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

RBmedia | Grace in All Simplicity

Listen to the audiobook Grace in All Simplicity, written by Robert N. Cahn;Chris Quigg, narrated by Brian Troxell.

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One week away: audiobook version of Grace in All Simplicity. rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

RBmedia | Grace in All Simplicity

Listen to the audiobook Grace in All Simplicity, written by Robert N. Cahn;Chris Quigg, narrated by Brian Troxell.

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Applications open now for the Winter 2027 session of the US Particle Accelerator School: uspas.fnal.gov/programs/202...

Only a matter of time before Sean returns to Villanova to put Philly on the map!

Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pope Leo hasn't been returning my calls, so I'm switching to LeBron as my next big podcast target. #MindscapePodcast

DPF2026 at Fermilab is a beehive of activity! Slides at indico.fnal.gov/event/72820/...

Division of Particles and Fields 2026

The Division of Particles & Fields is holding a meeting on July 20-24, 2026  at Fermilab. It's this year’s largest gathering of the U.S. particle physics community, featuring a program of plenary and ...

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For your summer reading pleasure: pegasusbooks.com/books/grace-... Audiobook coming August 18 rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

RBmedia | Grace in All Simplicity

Listen to the audiobook Grace in All Simplicity, written by Robert N. Cahn;Chris Quigg, narrated by Brian Troxell.

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Today, riders of the Tour de France passed near Boulevard de l'Hypéron in Bagnères-de-Bigorre and close to the Observatoire du Pic du Midi (above le col du Tourmalet).

Music for Independence Day, by American composer Charles Ives (originally for organ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yh...

UMich Symphony Band - Charles Ives - Variations on "America" (1892)

YouTube video by umsymphonyband

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Happy Fourth of July! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/...

Happy 14th birthday to the Higgs Boson! Much more to learn arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348

Perspectives and Questions: Toward an Expansive Agenda for Particle Physics

Global celebration greeted the 2012 discovery at CERN's Large Hadron Collider of a particle that matches the textbook description of the Higgs boson. That achievement validated a remarkable chain of t...

arxiv.org

RIP François Englert, who illuminated the science of spontaneously broken gauge symmetries: arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0...

Extraordinary progress reported at FCC Week 2026 in Helsinki, indico.cern.ch/event/155212.... Excellent work on many fronts!

FCC Week 2026

We are delighted to announce the twelfth edition of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Conference. FCC Week 2026 will take place in Helsinki, Finland, from 8 to 12 June 2026, at the University of Hels...

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Final day of the @princetonupress.bsky.social 50% off sale for Gauge Theories press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... and many fine books!

Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions

A thoroughly revised edition of a landmark textbook on gauge theories and their applications to particle physics

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Another fine bit of spectroscopy from @lhcb.bsky.social! Much exploration remains, including baryons containing (bc) and (bb). Weight diagrams below from Les Houches 1981, before we learned that top is so heavy and fleeting.

Patrick Koppenburg 🐧@koppenburg.ch · 4mo ago

📣 Public announcement: we are closing a multiplet! 🧪⚛️

Grace in All Simplicity Audiobook to be released August 18, now available for preorder from your favorite provider.

Half-price sale continues through June 7.

Chris Quigg@chrisquigg.com · 5mo ago

Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions is half price during the Princeton Press spring sale: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...