Ju Ben on Flickr.
LHC scientists build up to this afternoon’s announcement.
Anticipation is building in the run-up to presentations of the best-yet evidence for - or against - the existence of the Higgs boson.
The Higgs explains why other particles have mass. As the Universe cooled after the Big Bang, an invisible force known as the Higgs field formed together with its associated boson particle. It is this field (and not the boson) that imparts mass to the fundamental particles that make up atoms. Without it, these particles would zip through the cosmos at the speed of light. The way the Higgs field works has been likened to the way photographers and reporters congregate around a celebrity. The cluster of people are strongly attracted to the celebrity and create resistance to his or her movement across a room. In other words, they give the celebrity “mass”.
Down by the river on Flickr.
Bathtime on Flickr.
Karen, finding God? on Flickr.
Sweeping out the past on Flickr.
The Big and Little Albert on Flickr.
Promising Land is an exploration into national identity in the small town of Orange City, Iowa, a distinctly U.S. town founded by Dutch immigrants in 1870. Dutch photographer René Clement, a New York resident, found himself bewitched by the curious juxtaposition of Dutch heritage revivals, like the Tulip Festival, and their context in modern America. The evolution of the community has lead to an emotion of connectedness to their collective Dutch history, yet the manifestations are often anachronistic and cartoonish, a combination of authenticity with the imaginations of “playing dress-up”. Capturing portraits of residents in costume for the celebratory parades, along with some collaborative posed work, creating visionary landscapes like beautiful, bastardized classical Dutch paintings, Clement has put together a body of work that portrays brilliantly the confused identity of a latter-generation immigrant.
From GUP
Marc on Flickr.
A set of images from Lara Platman about Harris Tweed to help celebrate 100 years of the Orb.
See the gallery here