Now that the election is over and the LHC is delayed, for the next six months all of our posts will be about puppies. Let’s start with a live webcam.
Via Cynical-C.
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November 6th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Shiba Inu?
November 6th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Man, I could watch this for hours!
November 6th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Aww, how cute!
November 6th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
If you slam 2 puppies together at 7 TeV each, do they create a Higgs?
November 6th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
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.
November 6th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
A TeV puppy isn’t actually traveling all that fast…
November 6th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
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.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Since there are already comments on puppy physics, let me add a reminder that the Obamas are getting a new puppy.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
How about kittens (no Schrodinger’s cruelty please)
November 7th, 2008 at 7:00 am
are gravatons real? or is space-time curved?
November 7th, 2008 at 7:14 am
If a puppy is moving at the speed of light, does time stop for the puppy?
November 7th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Sean, who won the presidential prediction contest?
November 7th, 2008 at 10:29 am
How long before we get a final popular vote tally so you can declare a winner to the contest?
November 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Less snacks, more kittens, please.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Barbarian @#1:
Small-yapper-type Japanese dog-type dog.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
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!
Claire. P.S. Those Puppies, oh and I want one!
November 13th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I find myself wondering where is the mother?