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Steven GoldfarbPint of Science
Le Scandale, 21 May 2014
MY LIFE AS A PROTON
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Me
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My Origins
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Family Tree
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About My Parents
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Childbirth
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My Sister and I
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Growing Up
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I am 13.8 billion years – 0.0001s old
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Adolescence
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Childhood Ponderings
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What am I made of?And what can I become?
10-15 mproton
matter
10-14 mnucleus
10-10 matom
10-9 mmolecule
<10-18 mquark
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What is my destiny?
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How long will I live?
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What are these forces pulling on me?(and why are they so different?)
1
0.01
0.00001
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000001
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It’s hard to be positive all the time!
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My First Electron (She was only 400,000 years old!)
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Marriage
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Alternatives
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Where did all my anti-friends go?
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Early Career
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Becoming A Star (300 million years old)
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Caught Up In The Revolution
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What’s holding us together?
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Dark Matter
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Bad Accounting
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The Journey to Geneva
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Milky Way
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Solar System
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Earth
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Geneva
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Dedicating My Life To Science
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Uncle Fred, The Higgs Candidate
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Candidate…
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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN
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The ATLAS Experiment
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The CMS Experiment
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The ALICE Experiment
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The LHCb Experiment
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Current Ponderings
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My Office
Will I ever get out of this bottle?
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Will I make it to the LHC?
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Will I collide?
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What will I become?
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Will I be famous?
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Probability
Odds of getting out of the bottle 0.5Odds of making it to the LHC 0.1Odds of colliding 0.1Odds of one of my quarks or gluons colliding 10-7
Odds of becoming a Higgs boson 10-9
Odds of being detected 10-3
Chance at fame? 10-22
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Is it all worthwhile?
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Let’s do the calculation…
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Yes!Now, enjoy your pint!