Working at People’s Light!

I have had a very busy two weeks interning at People’s Light and Theater! I’m sorry that I did not make more frequent posts throughout my time there but I wrote everything down and will now be posting a longer entry summarizing the highlights of my senior project

Fermilab Week1

I arrived at Chicago in the evening of March 7^th and started my senior project the following day. Though it was my second visit to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, I was still amazed by the unique characteristics the lab reveals. It was the home of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and was once the center of particle physics research.

The Standard Model of elementary particles 1: Matter Particles

Particle physics is a specific subdivision of physics that studies the building blocks of the universe and their properties. Due to the minute size of these elementary particles, physicists rely on powerful particle accelerators to probe the infinitesimal and mysterious realm. Thus particle physics is also known as high-energy physics.

The Standard Model of elementary particles 2: Gauge Bosons

There are four fundamental interactions in the universe: gravitational force, electromagnetic force, strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force. Standard Model includes all but gravitational force. These interactions included in the Standard Model are carried out by their corresponding force carriers, or gauge bosons: photons, gluons and W and Z bosons.

Music in the Stars – Information Overload – Anne Katherine

Do you ever feel like you’re being dragged under a tidal wave of information with no control over where you’re headed and no sign of air or land?

Me neither.

However, over the past few weeks I have come to discover the joys and the difficulty of lots of help coming my way.