Not wanting to let Sean get away with the only marshmallow-related post this year, I’d like to bring to your attention that, for the fifth year running, the Washington Post recently held its Peeps Diorama Contest. This would be a pretty strange topic to cover on this blog were it not for the fact that one of the entries was the wonderful ATLAS Peeped!
Designed and Constructed by Marilena Loverde and Laura Newburgh, ATLAS Peeped is a painstaking and delicious reconstruction of the detector and its environment, with great attention to detail in adapting it to the peep universe. For example, please note the textbooks in the following (click on the photo for a full-size version)
lol. The first thing I noticed is: why is Peskin and Schroeder so thin?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/mark/ Mark Trodden
Bob Scherrer from Vanderbilt University tells me this isn’t the first physics-related peeps creation. In 2009 Bob and his daughter entered the University of Chicago peeps alumni competition. While their entry didn’t win, the image was picked up by Symmetry Magazine:
Pointed out by Dr. Peskin himself: “The almost invisible blue counterpart of a peep in the upper left is a “speep,” the supersymmetric counterpart of a peep and the main component, at least in the peep universe, of cosmic dark matter.”
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About Mark Trodden
Mark Trodden holds the Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Endowed Chair in Physics and is co-director of the Center for Particle Cosmology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a theoretical physicist working on particle physics and gravity— in particular on the roles they play in the evolution and structure of the universe. When asked for a short phrase to describe his research area, he says he is a particle cosmologist.
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