30 years ago, I took a battery-operated radio along on an 8th grade camping trip so I could listen with excitement to the first space shuttle launch. Today I watched the last one on streaming video, sadness mixed in with the thrill. And once, 12 years ago, I witnessed a nighttime space shuttle launch in person. The experience was so extraordinary that I had to write it all down. Here is the story: Sunrise [html]
From the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron collider, a proton-proton collision that created a Higgs boson, which subsequently decayed to two particles of light (shown as green rods.)
Of Particular Significance 