Monthly Archives: July 2012

Extensions to Green Comet

Posted on 2012-07-12 by arjaybe

Many of the people who read Green Comet ask if there will be more. While I wrote the novel I wasn’t thinking of that and I wasn’t planning anything beyond this book. All I wanted was to put together a … Continue reading →

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287 Million Tonnes

Posted on 2012-07-08 by arjaybe

This kind of quirky story easily catches my attention. It’s a data point that’s not particularly relevant to anything, but it’s so garish that it seems important. Scientists have calculated the mass of humanity, and it comes in at 287 … Continue reading →

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A New Boson

Posted on 2012-07-04 by arjaybe

The physicists, ever cautious, aren’t calling it the Higgs boson yet. It has the right mass, in the range of 125-126 billion electron volts (GeV.) The excess of particles of that mass appearing in the experiments at the Large Hadron … Continue reading →

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