This week is another ATLAS physics week; CERN council are also meeting (and just invited Israel to become an associate member) and on the Wednesday, after dinner with delegates from BIS and STFC, I was phoned up by Ed Gerstner and Anna Armstrong of Big Science FM.
For an hour (after playing the excellent "Particle Man" by They Might be Giants) we discussed the LHC, the Higgs, technicolour, mass, energy, extra dimensions and the rest, all broadcast live on Resonance 104.4 FM. (No one told me it was an Arts station!)
This podcast was the (as far as I can tell unedited) result: BIG SCIENCE FM HIGGS UPDATE.
I listened with some fear today, as I had no idea how it had sounded over the phone, and very little idea of what I had actually said. If I could have heard better I would not have talked over a couple of Anna's questions, I am glad Ed knew enough particle physics to fill the gaps; and I probably would not ask two Nature employees if they knew about the periodic table if I thought about it again.
But overall I think it's good enough to advertise here, in large part thanks to Anna and Ed. I hope you enjoy it.
Also it seems I become an analogy machine after a glass or two of wine. I spotted snooker balls, wine bottles, dice, cocktail parties, Brian Cox and Margaret Thatcher, plus me as a photon. Some of these aren't original of course, but my favourite was the zombie attack in the mist as a guide to statistics, which as far as I know is a first.
