Hi friends,
I realized too late that it has been 3 months now since my last post and I have to apologize for not updating this blog more recently. Meanwhile a lot of things have happened such that I've done a number of crap standardized tests to qualify for a PhD program in the States - one possibility among others for Hannah and me to make our dreams come true and be together in the future. Besides this I've been working on my thesis project - where I've recently presented some stuff in a monthly meeting within the collaboration... well, I am finally an ATLAS member and for those of you who haven't heard yet - the experiment is running and taking data. So maybe next year we'll be able to answer some of our most fundamental questions - hopefully we won't find the Higgs boson - the Standard model one :). You may ask why I would say something like that - well, erm - simply just discovering the Standard model Higgs would leave us Physicists with a lot of questions and a not so nice theory with 27! free parameters. But only nature will show us what is wrong and what is right...
Today was probably my second last performance with Kalmar nation choir - which recently changed to "Kalmar och Gotlands" nation choir. We are regularly performing both at Kalmar as well as at the strange nation with the sheep on the wrong side of the river. Ah yes-- happy Lucia to you all outside of Sweden. Lucia means singing a lot of songs and dressing up in white night dresses as well as wearing sort of funny hats... a very traditional thing here in Sweden. Stay tuned for some pictures of this years' Lucia. And we've performed okay - taking into account that the number of singers has doubled or tripled and we're now one of the *big* choirs in Uppsala. For those of you reading my blog and still being in Sweden - come to Kalmar tomorrow 2 p.m. and enjoy an awesome performance of our choir. For those of you who are not any longer in the country - check out youtube:
I realized too late that it has been 3 months now since my last post and I have to apologize for not updating this blog more recently. Meanwhile a lot of things have happened such that I've done a number of crap standardized tests to qualify for a PhD program in the States - one possibility among others for Hannah and me to make our dreams come true and be together in the future. Besides this I've been working on my thesis project - where I've recently presented some stuff in a monthly meeting within the collaboration... well, I am finally an ATLAS member and for those of you who haven't heard yet - the experiment is running and taking data. So maybe next year we'll be able to answer some of our most fundamental questions - hopefully we won't find the Higgs boson - the Standard model one :). You may ask why I would say something like that - well, erm - simply just discovering the Standard model Higgs would leave us Physicists with a lot of questions and a not so nice theory with 27! free parameters. But only nature will show us what is wrong and what is right...
Today was probably my second last performance with Kalmar nation choir - which recently changed to "Kalmar och Gotlands" nation choir. We are regularly performing both at Kalmar as well as at the strange nation with the sheep on the wrong side of the river. Ah yes-- happy Lucia to you all outside of Sweden. Lucia means singing a lot of songs and dressing up in white night dresses as well as wearing sort of funny hats... a very traditional thing here in Sweden. Stay tuned for some pictures of this years' Lucia. And we've performed okay - taking into account that the number of singers has doubled or tripled and we're now one of the *big* choirs in Uppsala. For those of you reading my blog and still being in Sweden - come to Kalmar tomorrow 2 p.m. and enjoy an awesome performance of our choir. For those of you who are not any longer in the country - check out youtube:
