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A very LIGO Christmas
Light speed: LIGO gets a surprise signal (click to expand)
By Tushna Commissariat
Every December, we like to do something special for you, dear readers, as the year draws to an end. As you are undoubtedly aware, some of the most exciting news in physics this year came from the world of gravitational-wave research and multimessenger astronomy, in the first ever observation of a neutron-star merger. Indeed, this global discovery bagged our 2017 Breakthrough of the Year award, while the pioneers of gravitational-wave astronomy won this year’s Nobel prize in physics.
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Creepy comic, Hawking joins Monty Python and that shirt
Frame 142 in Randall Munroe’s series of Philae sketches. (Courtesy: xkcd.org)
By Hamish Johnston
The big story this week is that Rosetta’s Philae lander has touched down on a comet. During the descent, cartoonist and former physicist Randall Munroe captured the event in a series of 142 sketches. You can see the final instalment above, presumably drawn before Philae’s various problems were widely known.
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Comedy at CERN, physics in a Buridanian universe and separating sugar from sand
Curtain call at CERN: last year’s comedy show was a great success. (Courtesy: Comedy Collider)
By Hamish Johnston
“Bad Boy of Science” Sam Gregson and colleagues are organizing an evening of physics-related comedy at CERN in Geneva on Friday 13 June. “LHComedy: No Cause for ConCERN” will kick off in the CERN Globe at 19:30 and is billed as “a fantastic and innovative new way of presenting the work going on at CERN and engaging with the public”. The line-up from CERN includes Canadian PhD student Nazim “License to Thrill” Hussain, quantum diarist Aidan “The Mole” Randle-Conde and Cat “Schrödinger” Demetriades. You can watch last year’s comedy extravaganza from CERN here. Others involved in the project are Clara Nellis, Alex Brown, Hugo Day, Claire Lee and Rob Knoops.
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Boom boom! CERN hosts first ever comedy night
By Matin Durrani
Laugh out loud – CERN’s first ever stand-up comedy show. (Click to view details)
Being funny is hard.
(“I’ve just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again.”)
Being funny about physics is even harder.
(“So what’s new?”
“Oh you know: E over h.”)
And being funny about physics at CERN’s first ever official stand-up comedy night is likely to be trickier still.
So good luck is what I say to those involved in the LHComedy event, which takes place on Friday 30 August from 7.30 to 11.30 p.m. (Central European Time) at CERN’s Globe of Science and Innovation in Geneva.
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