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The Atom Smashers: Hello again!
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Friday, September 4, 2009. Well, it's been a long, long time! Apologies for the delay. We've been incredibly busy on our next film, called The Experiment. On to other news, though - - we have a new office! We haven't moved in yet, but here are some pictures, courtesy Stef Foster (who shot most of the pretty shots in The Atom Smashers. This is Peter, our grants / funds coordinator, and Monica (co-director). The writing on the wall was left over from the previous tenants in this space, who were a print...
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The Atom Smashers: Higgs boson found!
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Thursday, March 5, 2009. It's been found by three gradeschool kids with an accelerator they build in the hallway of their junior high school. Really. It's on the Interwebs, so it has to be true, right? All about it. CERN and Fermilab researchers are rumored to be considering "chucking it all in and starting a band.". I saw your headline and jumped out of my chair. Dang it. You got me. Starting a band is never a bad idea, no matter how successful you are. James Ph. Kotsybar. January 27, 2009!
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The Atom Smashers: All kidding aside... go Corolla, go!
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009. All kidding aside. go Corolla, go! Things are starting to get very interesting. In February a spate of articles started showing up, first starting with the realization that CERN was not going to recover from its near-catastrophic breakdown in the summer as expected, but would need until September. So, first we saw the article. I referenced in a previous post, and here's one from the NewScientist, called "Fermilab 'closing in' on the God particle.". Now, hold on. Aside from th...
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The Atom Smashers: 50/50 at worst, 96% at best
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009. 50/50 at worst, 96% at best. These are the odds that Fermilab will find the Higgs before CERN. At least, according to Fermilab, as quoted today in this article. From BBC News. The subhead of the article reads "Europe's particle physics lab, CERN, is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, or "God Particle," its US rival claims.". Later in the article comes this line:. The article states something quite stunning:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Atom Smashers: Talkback!
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009. The Atom Smashers is broadcasting again tonight (Tuesday, January 27th) in an encore showing on many PBS stations. We found out from PBS that the film is screening in the Los Angeles area for the first time tonight, as they were in the midst of a pledge drive in November when it originally aired. So, to any west-coasters, welcome! And to everyone, please visit the PBS "Talkback". Page to write your thoughts about the film. And please visit here. January 27, 2009! Out on the Farm.
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The Atom Smashers: Watch it again!
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Friday, January 23, 2009. Since my last post we've had a couple more festivals (one in Greece, one in Belgium) invite the film to screen (not us, just the film, alas), and Monica and I are very excited to be flying out to show the film at UC Davis where John and Robin teach sometime in April. And here's something I find personally very exciting: it's fun to see our film listed on Netflix! And finally, a funny anecdote, from Robin:. Stopped us and said "Hey! I just saw you in a movie! Jack Cane, PhD said.
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The Atom Smashers: How many anti-protons does it take to screw in a light bulb?
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Sunday, May 10, 2009. How many anti-protons does it take to screw in a light bulb? Reading in my favorite magazine, Scientific American,. A guy named Lawrence Krauss wrote The Physics of Star Trek,. Which I have never read, but assumed was a silly book about how everything you see in Star Trek is possible and "some day, you'll be 'beaming' back and forth to the beach on your own personal transporter! Of course, it's hard to create antimatter, much less carry it around. It takes a tremendous amount of...
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The Atom Smashers: California here we come
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Friday, April 24, 2009. California here we come. Monica and I are flying out to Davis, CA, over the weekend as the guests of John and Robin (the married physicists in our film). Well, I guess technically we're the guests of the University of California, Davis, which is screening the film. We'll be participating in a panel discussion afterwards. We're really excited! I'll post from the road, including some pix. Have a great trip! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). January 27, 2009! Out on the Farm.
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The Atom Smashers: Ghostly congratulations
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Sunday, January 25, 2009. Great news for our esteemed soundtrack composer, Kate Simko. And us, indirectly): The Atom Smashers soundtrack will be released. Kate has a great career going as a composer and performer, and I've gotten so many compliments about the soundtrack of the film that I can't forward them all to Kate. I wrote about the collaboration I had with her here. And I'm really excited to see this album come out! PS - 1/28 I've just heard a preview copy of the CD - - it sounds fantastic.
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The Atom Smashers: This time it's for real
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Saturday, January 2, 2010. This time it's for real. Sorry to those of you that I directed to the tumblr blog. That didn't work out so well. So, here at last, is the REAL new blog. Come visit http:/ splitfocus.wordpress.com/. As my last post indicated, we're deep in production (now actually nearing the end) in our second film, called The Experiment, we've got a new office, and we're moving forward on a new film Fermilab has hired us to make to promote parts of their enormous facility not. Good luck to You.