{"id":10,"date":"2007-08-14T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/14\/astronomy-v-particle-physics\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T04:27:34","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T09:27:34","slug":"astronomy-v-particle-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy v particle physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>The traditional realm of astronomy is the observation and study of the largest objects in the Universe, while the traditional domain of high-energy physics is the study of the smallest things in nature. But these two sciences concerned with opposite ends of the size spectrum are&#8230;bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So says Rocky &#8220;Southpaw&#8221; Kolb  at <a href=\"http:\/\/cfcp.uchicago.edu\/\">The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics<\/a> in Chicago, in a lovey-dovey essay called &#8220;A Thousand Invisible Cords Binding Astronomy and High-Energy Physics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Southpaw Kolb wants more a-huggin and a-kissin when astronomers and particle physicists get together.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t nothing wrong with that. But which is better: astronomy or particle physics?  In a celebrity smackdown, who&#8217;d be holdin the golden belt at the end of the fight?<\/p>\n<p>No question in mah mind that particle physics would get its butt kicked well and good.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomy is a-jivin and a-thrivin. It&#8217;s been a platinum-plated golden age for astrofreaks since Hubble first peered into the gloom. And there&#8217;s no sign of a slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>But particle physics, it&#8217;s been a-lurchin and a-staggerin in sloth and crisis ever since the particle people found they&#8217;d be at a loose end for four years after LEP shutdown and until the LHC started up. That&#8217;s four years with ya feet up. They gotta be seriously outta shape.<br \/>\nAnd what about new blood? What kinda sadist would train to be particle person without no particles to play with?<\/p>\n<p>If ya&#8217;ll want to see a discipline in the doldrums, look no further than particle physics.<\/p>\n<p>But in the spirit of the 60s (which they all remember as their own golden age), we still lurv particle people anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0708.1199\">arxiv.org\/abs\/0708.1199<\/a>:A Thousand Invisible Cords Binding Astronomy and High-Energy Physics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The traditional realm of astronomy is the observation and study of the largest objects in the Universe, while the traditional domain of high-energy physics is the study of the smallest things in nature. But these two sciences concerned with opposite ends of the size spectrum are&#8230;bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fightin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}