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In 1964 the theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, who has died aged 94, suggested that the universe contains an all-pervading essence that can be manifested in the form of particles. This idea inspired governments to spend billions to find what became known as Higgs bosons.

The so-called “Higgs mechanism” controls the rate of thermonuclear fusion that powers the sun, but for which this engine of the solar system would have expired long before evolution had time to work its miracles on earth. The structure of atoms and matter and, arguably, existence itself are all suspected to arise as a result of the mechanism, whose veracity was proved with the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.

The Nobel laureate physicist Leon Lederman infamously described the boson as “the God particle”. Higgs, an atheist, found this inappropriate and misleading, but the name stuck and helped bring fame to the idea, and to Higgs. He in turn became a Nobel prizewinner in 2013.

It was at Edinburgh University, as a young lecturer in mathematical physics in the early 1960s, that Higgs became interested in the profound and tantalising ways in which properties – mathematical symmetries – in the equations describing fundamental laws can be hidden in the structures that arise.

For example, in space, unaffected by the earth’s gravity, a droplet of water looks the same in all directions: it is spherically symmetric, in agreement with the symmetry implied by the underlying mathematical equations describing the behaviour of water molecules. Yet when water freezes, the resulting snowflake takes up a different symmetry – its shape only appearing the same when rotated through multiples of 60 degrees – even though the underlying equations remain the same.

The Japanese-American physicist Yoichiro Nambu first inspired interest in this phenomenon, known as spontaneous symmetry breaking, in 1960.

Inspired by Nambu’s work, in 1964 Higgs’s own theory emerged with its explanation of how equations that call for massless particles (such as the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, which leads to the massless photon) can, via the so-called Higgs mechanism, give rise to particles with a mass.

This idea would later be at the root of Gerardus ’t Hooft’s proof in 1971 that unification of the electromagnetic force and the weak force, responsible for radioactivity, where a massive “W” particle plays the analogous role to the massless photon, is viable. The subsequent discovery of the W in 1983 gained Nobel prizes, both for the experiment and for theorists who had foreseen this. Underlying this success was the so-called Higgs mechanism, which controlled the mathematics in this explanation of the weak force.

When Nambu won the Nobel prize in 2008, it began to seem likely that the way was being prepared for Higgs’s eventual recognition.

A problem though, as Higgs was always the first to stress, was that he had not been alone in discovering the possibility of mass “spontaneously” appearing. Similar ideas had already been articulated: by the condensed matter physicist Philip Anderson, though in a more restricted way, and by Robert Brout and François Englert in Belgium, who beat Higgs into print by a few weeks. A former colleague of Higgs at Imperial College, Tom Kibble, and two colleagues were to write a paper along similar lines weeks later.

Where Higgs had justifiable claims to uniqueness was in the boson. He drew attention to the fact that in certain circumstances spontaneously broken symmetry implied that a massive particle should appear, whose affinity for interacting with other particles would be in proportion to their masses.

It would be discovery of this particle that could give experimental verification that the theory is indeed a description of nature. Although even this boson was arguably implicit in other work, it was Higgs who articulated most sharply its implications in particle physics.

The eponymous “Higgs boson” became the standard-bearer for the Large Hadron Collider. In the early 1990s the science minister William Waldegrave issued his challenge: explain the Higgs boson on a sheet of paper and help me to convince the government to fund this.

Among the winners, the most famous was the analogy, by David Miller of University College London, of Margaret Thatcher – a massive particle – wandering through a cocktail party at the Tory conference and gathering hangers-on as she moved. Higgs, whose politics were diametrically opposite to hers, expressed himself as being “very comfortable” with the description.

He was always uncomfortable as a celebrity. When Cern – the European Organisation for Nuclear Research – prepared to switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2008, the media promoted it as a quest for the Higgs boson.

Higgs felt that Cern was misguided to talk up “the” boson – he was always the first to stress that others had had much the same idea and that naming it after him was unfair. He once modestly described the detection of the boson as “tying up loose ends” and regarded the main excitement of the LHC as its potential to reveal the secrets of dark matter and other kinds of new physics.

Nonetheless, in July 2012, Cern announced the discovery of a particle “with Higgs-like properties”. Media frenzy grew, and Higgs bravely accepted his fate as a centre of attention.

Although most physicists were sure that the eponymous boson had been discovered, several months’ more study would be needed before complete confirmation could be assured: the Nobel prize for 2012 went elsewhere. By 2013 the evidence was compelling; there was a general expectation that 2013 would be the year.

By this stage, 49 years had elapsed since Higgs had written his first paper on the subject. In a final, nailbiting twist, the announcement of his long-awaited success was delayed by an hour as the Nobel committee struggled to reach the famously reclusive scientist. Aware of the media attention he was likely to get, Higgs had decided to be “somewhere else” when the announcement was made, and told colleagues that he planned to take a holiday in the north-west highlands of Scotland.

As the date approached, however, he realised that this was not a good plan for that time of the year, so he decided to stay at home and be somewhere else at the right time. At around 11am on 8 October, he left home and by noon, when the announcement should have been made, he was in Leith, by the shore, in a bar called the Vintage, which Higgs famously attested sold both food and “rather good beers”.

Thus with Higgs incommunicado (he largely avoided using mobile phones or the internet), after more than an hour of unsuccessful attempts to reach him, the Swedish Academy decided to make the public announcement anyway. The ironic result was that by 2pm, the news that Peter Higgs and Englert, of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, were the winners of the Nobel prize for physics was known to the world, but not to Higgs himself. (Englert’s colleague Brout had died in 2011, and was unable to be included as Nobel prizes are not awarded posthumously.)

Higgs later recalled how, “after a suitable interval”, but still ignorant of the news, he had made his way home from lunch. However, he delayed further by visiting an art exhibition, as “it seemed too early to get home, where reporters would probably be gathered”.

At about three o’clock he was walking along Heriot Row, heading for his flat in the next street, when a car pulled up near Queen Street Gardens. A lady got out “in a very excited state” and told Higgs: “My daughter’s just phoned from London and told me about the award.” To which Higgs replied: “What award?” As he explained, he was joking, but that is when his expectations were confirmed.

His plan had been a success, as, “I managed to get in my front door with no more damage than one photographer lying in wait.” A little more than a decade later, the main focus of the LHC has been to produce large numbers of Higgs bosons in order to understand the nature of the omnipresent essence that they form.

During the coronavirus lockdown I talked with him for hours on the phone at weekends in the course of researching the biography Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass (2022). When asked to summarise his perspective on public reaction to the boson he said: “It ruined my life.” To know nature through mathematics, to see your theory confirmed, to win the plaudits of peers and win a Nobel prize, how could this equate with ruin? He explained: “My relatively peaceful existence was ending. I dont enjoy this sort of publicity. My style is to work in isolation, and occasionally have a bright idea.”

Higgs spent more than half a century as a theoretical physicist at Edinburgh University. Perhaps because of this, he was described in many media reports as a “Scottish physicist”, whereas in fact he was born in Newcastle, of English parents, Thomas Ware Higgs and Gertrude Maud (nee Coghill).

His father was a sound engineer with the BBC, and the family moved almost immediately to Birmingham, where Peter spent his first 11 years. In 1941, with the second world war intensifying, the BBC decided that Birmingham was too dangerous, and its operations were transferred to Bristol. The Higgs family duly moved there, with the intention of avoiding aerial bombardment, but the following weekend the centre of Bristol was heavily bombed.

In Bristol, Higgs attended Cotham grammar school, where a famous former pupil had been the Nobel physicist Paul Dirac. Dirac’s name was prominent on the honours board. Higgs followed him, but initially in mathematics rather than physics. Higgs’s father had a collection of maths books, which inspired Peter and enabled him to be become far ahead of the class. His interest in physics was sparked in 1946, upon hearing the Bristol physicists, later Nobel laureates, Cecil Powell and Nevill Mott describing the background to the atomic bomb programme. Although this helped determine his career, Higgs himself later became a member of CND.

At King’s College London he studied theoretical physics, going on to gain his PhD in 1954. He was working on molecular physics, applying ideas of symmetry to molecular structure. His interests moved towards particle physics, although his office was on the same corridor as those of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, two of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, though his own work had no immediate link to their programme.

He won research fellowships, first at the University of Edinburgh (1954-56), then in London at University College (1956–57), and at Imperial College(1957–58). He was appointed lecturer in mathematics at University College London in 1958, and then moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1960, where he spent the rest of his research career. Initially lecturer in mathematical physics, in 1970 he was appointed reader and, in 1980, professor of theoretical physics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1974, and FRS in 1983.

He met his future wife, the linguist Jody Williamson, at a CND meeting in 1960. They married in 1963, and had two sons, Christopher and Jonathan. Although they separated, they remained friends until her death in 2008.

Higgs won several awards in addition to the 2013 Nobel prize. In addition to numerous honorary degrees, these included the 1997 Dirac medal and prize from the Institute of Physics, the 2004 Wolf prize in physics, the Sakurai prize of the American Physical Society in 2010, and the Edinburgh medal in 2013. That year he was also appointed Companion of Honour, and two years later he won the Copley medal of the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific prize.

His sons survive him.

🔔 Peter Ware Higgs, theoretical physicist, born 29 May 1929; died 8 April 2024

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danilo (fo76: pitt)

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higgs monaghan (ds)

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i write for:

dead by daylight

- talbot grimes (blight)

- hux-a7-13 (singularity)

- pyramid head

- nemesis

- michael myare

- i might write for other characters if asked but i reserve the right to decline for any reason at all

resident evil

- leon. my special friend

- chris but only if you ask really nicely and/or bribe me

- karl heisenberg

- carlos oliviera

saw

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- peter strahm

misc. horror

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death stranding

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overwatch

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apex legends

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the walking dead

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This is a Bloodline "live react", but also not really because I'm posting my initial thoughts as I read in maybe two goes, depending on the time I can allocate to reading.

Disclaimer: The book has been out for two and a bit years. I hate surprises. Consequently, I know stuff. Specifically, I know that:

Otto "dies" // the volcano explodes. These are somehow linked?

The Queen of Shadows is a Sinistre who... exists // Raven is Nero's daughter. Again, these are somehow linked? Sidenote: hive fantasy au where there's a Nero, furan and sinistre kingdom/royalty

There's a scene in which Nero is tied to a bed?? And I think Anastasia is there?? (*squirts Mr Walden with water*)

There's some Anna kid/super-robot. I assume she wants to kill everyone (mood). Sidenote: given how similar her name is to Anastasia's, there's probably some connection there.

Ms. Leon gets her body back. Her cat's name is Kali.

Pietor has a "lurking heart."

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Chapter One:

OK, opening with a scene of Nero + brandy into a flashback sequence... very Overlord Protocol. Wonder if that was intentional and if the books may be linked.

Nero is younger than I thought. Much younger.

"There's a fine line between being devoted and pathetic." Oh, I love Elena already.

Clumsy Max. That's all I have to say. See, I thought it was as he was bending to kneel when the shot happened, not bending to retrieve a fallen ring. It's kind of sweet that it's the one time we've seen him display nerves. And it killed his (finace? Girlfriend? Does the proposal count?), generating a Never Again type of instinct and the birth of the max we know and love

KILL ANASTASIA, MAX... oh, you IDIOT. Suppose plot gotta plot, eh?

Dr Higgs... why is that name familiar? Glass tanks. Did he work on Otto back in the day?

Laura seems much more bold than any other book. It's interesting, given that Deadlock has literally just happened.

Shelby's first line is an insult. Now that's the Shelby I love

This is wholesome (barring the implied make outs, of course), but Penny. What has happened to Penny?

Oh no, h.i.v.e.mind is thinking they're having a foursome, isn't he?

Chapter Two:

So Anna is Otto crossed with the Contessa. And the whole initial want to know stuff about her creator? Aka her "parents"? I'm sensing AU potential centred around a more human version of her, yearning for a family to find and slowly being driven into insanity/violence

Oh my god, max on holiday? It's him, he's being controlled by something.

I forget that Raven and diabolus are only friends/kind of close in fanfiction. I have no point to make here. It's just very jarring to read max saying to her that he'll do all the talking as though it's all a political battlefield.

Also, we should actually talk about max's daddy issues

Why is Franz a gym bro now? I suppose he inspired himself to try to attain his ninja alter ego via his newfound shooting skills. Still extremely out the blue. (Oooh, And They Were Study Buddies).

...That better not be the extent of Nigel's self-acceptance arc. Or else I'll have to dust off the old ffn account, and nobody wants that. Mr Walden, my guy, I'm counting on you.

Anna, will you take my hand in marriage?

Ouch, Zero really did just exist to be told "a copy is never as good as the original" and then to have his successor be even better than him.

Chapter Three

Excuse me, I know Otto points it out immediately, but Wing advocating for more aggression? Interesting. Makes sense in context- a simulation, in which he would have been the one getting hurt if they took a more aggressive approach. I wonder if that's going to come into play, perhaps the other way around, in a real situation?

Are they really not going to say what this security flaw is? Damn, poor hive'll never learn

Chapter Four

Why are block and tackle being nice? Wing's right, this is a complete parallel universe

..or perhaps not. Only shelby would dare picture Nero in tights.

Page 66 and hive is already fucked. What I'm hearing is Cypher was a complete amateur

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Chapter Six

We are nine books in, and let's be honest. Dr Scott isn't the chief medic, he's the only medic

I forgot to jot down anything for c5, but if I forgot, then I can't have had anything particularily noteworthy to say.

Here, I do find it quite interesting that Anna referred to guns as nasty. Reminds me of those really convoluted family trees in which wing is related to otto (and, by extention, anna) via his parents working on Overlord.

Damn, looks like a united glove isn't good news at all for max right now

Also, I'm still really wondering if Mr Walden just straight up forgot about Penny

Hiiiiii! Wanted to make a list of everyone I write for and let everyone know I do take requests.

Stranger things:

Steve Harrington

Eddie Munson

Billy Hargrove

Robin Buckley

Jim Hopper

Supernatural:

Dean Winchester

Sam Winchester

Crowley

Lucifer

Jack Kline

Gabriel

Castiel

Horror:

Michael Myers (OG or RZ! version)

Bubba Sawyer

Thomas Hewitt

David (lost boys)

Dwayne (lost boys)

Paul (lost boys)

Marko (lost boys)

Chucky

Tiffany Valentine Adam Faulkner-Stanheight

Amanda Young

Mark Hoffman

Mickey Altieri

Stu Macher

Billy Loomis

Randy Meeks

Sydney Prescott

Tatum Riley

Dewey Riley

Bo Sinclair

Vincent Sinclair

Lester Sinclair

Otis Driftwood

Baby Firefly

Corey Cunningham

Video Games: Jason Kolchek

Arthur Morgan

John Marston

Jack Marston (Aged Up aka RDR1 version ONLY)

Dutch Van Der Linde

Bill Williamson

Kieran Duffy

Charles Smith

Micah Bell

Lenny Summers

Javier Escuella

Sean MacQuire

Johnny Silverhand

River Ward

Judy Alvarez

Panam Palmer

Kerry Eurodyne

Montgomery Gator

Chris Redfield

Leon Kennedy

Alcina Dmitrescu

Cassandra Dmitrescu

Bela Dmitrescu

Daniela Dmitrescu

Karl Heisenberg

Donna Beneviento

Mother Miranda

Salvatore Moreau

Lucas Baker

Higgs Monaghan

The Walking Dead:

Daryl Dixon

Negan

Shane Walsh

Michonne

Glenn Rhee

Maggie Rhee (Green)

Merle Dixon

Dwight

Simon

Beta The Governor

This is all I could think of I write for off the top of my head. Feel free to ask if you don't see someone's name on the list 😁

can i suggest higgs monaghan and sam porter bridges from death stranding for the yaoi draft?

none of us have played this game but i think they'd be really funny in the yaoi wars so mod date and i give this a yes (mod leon is asleep)

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(Lush) Video game twink-off: Leon vs. Higgs

While both are valid, one's a silly little twink who roundhouse kicks shit and delivers witty one-liners but the other is the world's most dramatic evil little bitch that calls himself the God Particle and, it must be painfully obvious by this point, I live for that kind of theatricality.

Plus Higgs has black hair and wears eyeliner so like.

Yeah.

Focus Live 2022, evento al Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia

Focus Live 2022, evento al Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia. Da venerdì 4 a domenica 6 novembre il Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia di Milano ospita, come ogni anno, il Festival Focus Live 2022. In calendario oltre 100 ospiti e più di 70 appuntamenti aperti al pubblico e a tutte le età, tra conferenze, installazioni, laboratori, dimostrazioni e incontri, anche robotici con i migliori esperti della scena scientifica italiana, dal palco del Museo e in diretta sulle piattaforme web. In occasione del 30° anniversario del mensile Focus, il tema della quinta edizione del festival – Orizzonti – intende sperimentare e toccare con mano quanto e come il progresso tecnologico abbia già cambiato e cambierà il nostro quotidiano. Uno sguardo attento, multiforme, dinamico, multimediale, interattivo, coinvolgente ed entusiasmante al futuro della scienza, della tecnologia, dell’esplorazione spaziale e della salvaguardia del Pianeta, accessibile a tutti e rivolto a piccoli e grandi. Il4 novembre alle ore 9.30 si apre Focus Live, con la partecipazione di Fiorenzo Galli, Direttore Generale del Museo e con la presentazione del programma da parte di Raffaele Leone, Direttore di Focus. A seguito della cerimonia di apertura della manifestazione, Marcell Jacobs sarà il primo ospite del festival, dove svelerà al pubblico come si diventa l’uomo più veloce al mondo. IL CALENDARIO Dal clima alle conquiste spaziali, dal cibo alla medicina, dallo sport al design, sono più di cento gli ospiti chiamati a condividere con il pubblico le scoperte e le novità più recenti, in presenza e in diretta sulle piattaforme web e social. Appassionati e curiosi di tecnologia, scienza, natura, medicina e innovazione troveranno all’interno del ricco programma, tanti eventi da segnare in agenda. Venerdì 4 novembre: Marcell Jacobs, Alberto Mantovani, Luca Perri, Barbascura X, Luca Mercalli Dopo la cerimonia di apertura della manifestazione, sarà Marcell Jacobs, campione olimpico dei 100 metri, alle ore 10.20 il primo, atteso, ospite relatore. Protagonista di Veloci verso il futuro, svelerà al pubblico i suoi segreti: come si diventa l’uomo più veloce del mondo? È davvero solo tutta una questione di allenamento? Occasione imperdibile alle 12, invece, per incontrare Alter ego, il robot umanoide sviluppato dall’Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, il centro di eccellenza che il mondo ci invidia e dove prende forma il futuro, e altre tecnologie che ci cambieranno la vita. Alle ore 14 sarà invece l’immunologo Alberto Mantovani a guidarci alla scoperta della straordinaria fase di avanzamento delle conoscenze in campo medico che stiamo attraversando e degli sviluppi terapeutici nel prossimo futuro, in particolare per malattie degenerative come Alzheimer, Parkinson e demenza senile. L’astrofisico Luca Perri alle ore 16 invece parlerà di Buuu… gie. Funzionamento e non funzionamento del debunking. Daniele Mocio, Tenente Colonnello dell’Aeronautica Militare e previsore meteo, alle ore 17 si soffermerà su previsioni e cambiamento climatico in Che tempo che fa?. Compito di Barbascura X, divulgatore scientifico e stand-up comedian svelare Il lato umano degli scienziati. Rivelazioni (e sconvolgenti scheletri nell’armadio) alle ore 19.20 su 6 grandi menti della scienza, da Newton a Tesla, da Democrito ad Einstein. A concludere la prima giornata di Focus Live sarà il meteorologo Luca Mercalli, meteorologo e un ensemble dell’Orchestra sinfonica di Milano con C’erano una volta le quattro stagioni che parte da una domanda: cosa avrebbe composto Antonio Vivaldi se fosse vissuto oggi, nel pieno del cambiamento climatico causato dall’uomo? Sabato 5 novembre: Guido Tonelli, Roberto Battiston, Mario Tozzi, Benedetta Parodi, Stefano Boeri ed Ersilia Vaudo, Gabriella Greison A dieci anni dalla scoperta del Bosone di Higgs, che cosa abbiamo imparato di questa particella? E che cosa resta da scoprire? Per ascoltare le risposte appuntamento sabato 5 novembre alle ore 10 con La "particella di Dio" e i segreti dell'universo in compagnia del fisico del Cern Guido Tonelli. Alle ore 10.35 anche il fisico Roberto Battiston fornirà strumenti per comprendere meglio il mondo Con gli occhi della scienza. Mario Tozzi, con il suo stile inconfondibile, alle ore 11.15 porterà il pubblico di Focus Live a scoprire gli aspetti più affascinanti del Mare Nostrum, il Mediterraneo, in un viaggio tra storia, mito e scienza. Alle ore 12 gli esperti di Airc, insieme a Benedetta Parodi, testimonial dell'Associazione, parleranno di quanto è importante una sana alimentazione per il nostro corpo nel corso dell’incontro La salute vien mangiando (sano). Nel pomeriggio alle ore 16 Stefano Boeri, architetto, ed Ersilia Vaudo, chief diversity officer dell’Agenzia Spaziale Europea ci porteranno Dalle stelle alle stanze per parlare di futuro sostenibile. Lo Special event di sabato sera è un doppio appuntamento per ricordare, a dieci anni dalla scomparsa, Rita Levi Montalcini, l'unica scienziata italiana premiata con il Nobel. Alle ore 20.30 con la nipote Piera e Alberto Cappio, autori di "Un sogno al microscopio", verrà ricordata la sua straordinaria vita: dall’infanzia spensierata alle leggi razziali, dagli studi a Torino ai legami con una famiglia molto unita, colta e piena di talenti. Alle ore 21.00 invece Gabriella Greison, fisica e attrice, porta in scena un uovo spettacolo, "#maestre", dedicato alle grandi scienziate del XX secolo. Domenica 6 novembre: David Monacchi, Adriano Fontana, Paolo Nespoli, Space4InspirAction, Barbara Gallavotti e Telmo Pievani Ricco anche il cartellone dell’ultima giornata di Focus Live, domenica 6 novembre, che apre alle ore 10 con il giornalista Federico Taddia e la climatologa Elisa Palazzi, in un dialogo a due voci su Il cambiamento climatico spiegato a tutti. Sarà invece un viaggio alla scoperta dei suoni dei luoghi a forte rischio di scomparsa L’arca di Noè sonora di David Monacchi, artista interdisciplinare, compositore, presidente della organizzazione non-profit Fragments of Extinction e archeologo dei suoni (alle ore 14.35). Dalle meraviglie della terra si viaggia nello spazio alle 15.15 con Le meraviglie del Webb Space Telescope raccontate dall’astrofisico Adriano Fontana. Dalle conquiste spaziali al coraggio di affrontare le avversità alle 16 il programma propone Non smettete di sognare, l’esperienza straordinaria di vita e lavoro dell’astronauta Paolo Nespoli. Spazio al design alle ore 17 con i progetti degli studenti del corso Space4InspirAction della Scuola del Design del Politecnico di Milano realizzati per Focus all’interno dell’iniziativa Star Track. Soluzioni per rendere coltivabile l'alga spirulina in ambiente lunare e per facilitare il lavoro degli astronauti con disabilità. A presentare il progetto Annalisa Dominoni e Benedetto Quaquaro, docenti del corso. Con la biologa Barbara Gallavotti , alle ore 18, c’è il tempo per fermarsi a riflettere sulla ormai fragile (e compromessa) relazione tra uomo e natura nel corso di Confini invisibili, mentre alle ore 18.45 sul palco di Focus Live saliranno il paleontologo Cristiano Del Sasso e tre dinosauri… visibili al pubblico grazie ai visori per la realtà virtuale. E a concludere il festival ci penserà Telmo Pievani, alle ore 19.30, presentando spunti di riflessione su Il paradosso del progresso. Per tutti coloro che alle conferenze e agli incontri teorici preferiscono la pratica, il luogo dove rivolgersi è l'area dedicata alle installazioni del Museo. Tra un intervento sul main stage e un talk allo speakers corner sarà infatti possibile curiosare tra i diversi stand. I ricercatori di Airc risponderanno alle domande sui tumori e con una serie di giochi interattivi aiuteranno a valutare l'importanza della prevenzione. Nei Laboratori raccontati (a cura di Mondadori Education e Fatti, non fake!) si sperimenterà la chimica di tutti i giorni ma anche quella del futuro. Negli stand dell'Aeronautica Militare si potrà salire nella cabina di pilotaggio di un jet militare, provare un seggiolino eiettabile e anche imparare a fare le previsioni meteo. Metaverso Experience - un mondo digitale realizzato da Pulsee Luce e Gas in collaborazione con Looperspace e Wavemaker - nel quale si può salire su una navicella spaziale e viaggiare nel Sistema solare alla scoperta dei segreti della nostra stella e dei suoi pianeti. Oltre al viaggio nel metaverso, ci si potrà cimentare in una camminata su Marte con il simulatore di gravità marziana di Mars Planet, o stare accanto a Neil Armstrong e Buzz Aldrin nel simulatore dell'Apollo 11 di Virtual Immersions in Science. Con la realtà virtuale di  Way Experience sono invece in programma incontri ravvicinati con i dinosauri, così come passeggiate dentro a un quadro di Monet e un viaggio nel tempo per studiare la biodiversità delle Isole Galápagos a fianco di Charles Darwin. Nello stand di Humanitas University, infine, verranno insegnate le principali manovre salvavita. Infine, per i bambini, non mancherà l'area Kids realizzata da Focus Junior, con esperienze, laboratori e incontri realizzati con i partner Mondadori Education, Ricercamondo - Henkel e Università Bicocca. Tra le esperienze che il Museo mette a disposizione: la Digital Zone YOU&AI per sperimentare possibili scenari in cui l’intelligenza artificiale è protagonista, il laboratorio Base Marte per partecipare a un gioco di ruolo dal vivo in missione sul Pianeta Rosso, il laboratorio Future Inventors per esplorare la cultura digitale e immergersi in installazioni artistiche tra sound art e proiezioni interattive, le esperienze di VR Cinema per vivere da protagonisti contenuti esclusivi e produzioni originali di cortometraggi, fiction e docufilm dedicati a scienza, tecnologia e società le visite guidate alle Gallerie Leonardo da Vinci e alla Sezione Spazio, dove poter ammirare l’unico frammento di Luna presente in Italia. Oltre al ricco palinsesto giornaliero, in programma anche due eventi serali gratuiti. Venerdì 4 novembre alle 20.30 le parole di Luca Mercalli e le note di Antonio Vivaldi suonate da un ensemble dell’Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano conquisteranno gli spettatori con "C’erano una volta le 4 stagioni"” e sabato 5 novembre, sempre alle 20.30, invece Gabriella Greison, fisica e attrice, porta in scena lo spettacolo "#maestre", dedicato alle grandi scienziate del XX secolo, anticipato dal racconto della figura di Rita Levi-Montalcini con le parole della nipote Piera. Sarà possibile scoprire il palinsesto completo e prenotarsi per partecipare gratuitamente agli appuntamenti. Due i turni: mattino (10-14) e pomeriggio (14-20). Chi desidera rimanere tutto il giorno può naturalmente prenotare i biglietti per entrambe le mezze giornate. Gli spettacoli serali di venerdì e sabato avranno un biglietto, sempre gratuito, a parte. Sul sito e sui canali social di Focus sarà possibile seguire l’intero festival con tre giorni di dirette streaming e contenuti speciali. Focus Live è un evento Mondadori Media, realizzato in collaborazione con il Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci e anche grazie al supporto di molte istituzioni: Aeronautica Militare, Afru, Apnea Academy, Asi, Civico planetario "Ulrico Hoepli", Enea, Esa, Esercito Italiano, IIT, Inaf, Marina Militare, Mars Planet, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Politecnico di Milano, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Università di Trento, VIS - Virtual Immersions in Science, Way Experience, WWF.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

So I finally finished them, I need to get around to doing full body drawings of the rest of them

Day 11 | Higgs Monaghan meets Leon Kennedy

Day two coverage of the M3F festival in Phoenix!

Oggi solo album che scottano

https://www.dlso.it/site/2020/07/17/album-17-luglio-2020/

Death Stranding spoilers ahoy!

But this needs to be said

The reveal that Peter Englert was Higgs is the best twist in the whole game, because it was the only one that I either hadn’t already figured out or wasn’t completely ridiculous

BUT that’s still not his real name

Peter Englert is a combination of the names of the two physicists who won the Nobel prize for theorizing the Higgs mechanism, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert

So where tf does Monaghan come from? Cuz that has nothing to do with the Higgs boson! (There are some Monaghans in particle physics but none of them relate to said particle)

Good question! Let me present my theory and head canon!

Higg’s real name is Peter Monaghan. Maybe he was reading about the Higgs boson as he was radicalizing (found a copy of The God Particle by Leon Lederman?) and saw Higgs’s and Englert’s names and, being the edgelord that he so endearingly is, went hey my first name’s Peter and this god particle thing is cool, I’ll just take their names!

Real/Fictional People Beans Simps For: for @imdedinsidex-x

Foolish__Gamers

Jack Manifold

Awesamdude

Sapnap

Joel from The Last of Us

Karl Heisenberg from RE8

Loki Laufeyson

Stan and Ford Pines

The police chief from Zootopia

Will Arnett

Brahms Heelshire from The Boy

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Charlie Dalton from The Dead Poets Society

Leon Kennedy from the Resident Evil franchise

Higgs Monaghan from Death Stranding

Sam Drake from the Uncharted franchise

Dally Winston from The Outsiders

Jim Carrey

Pedro Pascal

Arthur Morgan, Javier Escuella, and Josiah Trelawny from Red Dead Redemption II

Daryl Dixon and Negan from The Walking Dead

Gally from The Maze Runner

BoJack Horseman

Bo Burnham

Neil Newbon

Daniel Brühl

Baron Zemo

Ben Schwartz

Older! Brad Pitt

Joaquin Phoenix

Paul Bettany

Finn Shelby from Peaky Blinders

Bucky Barnes

Anthony Mackie

Sam Wilson

C!Jschlatt

C!Technoblade

C!Wilbur Soot

Donny Donowitz from Inglourious Basterds

Connor, RK900, and Gavin Reed from Detroit: Become Human

Theo Raeken from Teen Wolf

Ralph Macchio

Spencer Shay from iCarly

Fox Mulder from The X-Files

Reese and Francis Wilkerson from Malcolm in the Middle

Ransom Drysdale from Knives Out

Benny Watts from The Queen’s Gambit

Cate Blanchett

Linda Cardellini

Matthew Lillard