If you slam 2 puppies together at 7 TeV each, do they create a Higgs?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/sean/ Sean
The kinetic energy of a scampering puppy is millions of TeV, more than enough to produce a Higgs. (1 TeV is about one erg.) Sadly, it’s spread out over a large number of degrees of freedom. And the luminosity is low.
http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com Lab Lemming
A TeV puppy isn’t actually traveling all that fast…
http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com Lab Lemming
For a head-on collision, 14 TeV=2.24e-6 J
Assuming each puppy is 250g, and puppies are Newtonian, so E=1/2mv^2, that works out to about 3e-3 m/s, or 3 millimeters/second.
Joe
Since there are already comments on puppy physics, let me add a reminder that the Obamas are getting a new puppy.
Roman
How about kittens (no Schrodinger’s cruelty please)
http://teethgrinder.co.uk monk.e.boy
are gravatons real? or is space-time curved?
http://juliapearl.etsy.com J_P
If a puppy is moving at the speed of light, does time stop for the puppy?
anao
Sean, who won the presidential prediction contest?
Matt
How long before we get a final popular vote tally so you can declare a winner to the contest?
Sili
Less snacks, more kittens, please.
Shinydan Howells
Barbarian @#1:
Small-yapper-type Japanese dog-type dog.
http://www.cthisspace.com Claire C Smith
I was wondering about that bit of white square over in the red play area. Are those lovely pups constructing the next big physics answer on it, for us?
One of them could be tackling a white board marker (with top on) in that play pen right now!
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About Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His most recent book is The Particle at the End of the Universe, about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson.
Here are some of his favorite blog posts, home page, and email: carroll [at] cosmicvariance.com .
