Blather, rinse, repeat

I'm not much of a RHIC person, and I'm currently attached to the LHC at CERN (which is going to be doing a more powerful search through ALICE, a project I am thankfully not attached to), but they do some interesting stuff. I do remember a bit of the strangelet stuff coming around, but nobody seemed to think it was much of a likely occurance. I'll keep an eye out and see if anybody is mentioning it again.

99% of matter is quarks by the way (or matter as we know it), so virtually any way you leave the earth involves them.

I was talking the other day about how we should look for black holes at the LHC. It's not something our group is going to do (we're committed to the Higgs) but it is something that someone will do. We're looking at a bunch of theoretical models about how they might appear. They'll be messy when we see them - that much seems to be true.

If we find anything it might even make the papers.