I like this!

Indeed. See my comment above.

This makes the (incorrect) assumption that maths is about calculations: mathematics is about much more than stringing along numbers in arithmetic operations.

“research community”

Need to plan alternatives for periods of shutdown.

Go one step back: tune the Higgs field to give quarks the right mass so that neutrons are heavier than protons. If not, the protons will decay quickly and we can't have atoms.

What happens if the Higgs couplings to quarks is too strong?

Types of feedback sought:

• Ideas for stories that can be told by scientists and engineers about their work that could illustrate (and humanise) this scenario – perhaps an anecdote about a particular challenge that has been solved in an innovative way or simply sharing the name of a great communicator I might not know.
• Ideas for objects that could be available to illustrate the scenario.
• Maybe you can share an idea for an experiment that you’ve seen in a museum somewhere or in a workshop, or know some-one at CERN who’s prototyped something that fits with our story?
• Or perhaps there’s a new idea for an experiment or game that comes to mind when you read the scenario?
• Also do you have an idea for a fun location that would tie the exhibits of Quantum World together?
• Do you have suggestions for existing photos / film / VR / 360 degree images that you find particularly spectacular and that could be used at a particular point in the exhibitions? Or ideas for locations that it could be useful to film or photograph (particularly during LS2)?
• …. or indeed any other input you’d like to share!

on the CERN sites, except those required for medical reasons.

"before planning your visit"?

See above comments.

Replace with "soon"?

Should probably delete this.

collaborator → volunteer

collaborator → volunteer

Delete "(everywhere)". Sorry my instructions weren't clear. :P I meant to say you need to replace the word "collaborator" with the word "volunteer" everywhere in the document.

Link to this?

Add comma after "bicycles".

7.00 p.m.

9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

loss of personal

Replace with correct punctuation.

animal-welfare

Spread out for accessibility:

+41 22 767 4444

Link?

periods that we call “long shutdowns”, during which

OR

“long shutdowns”, during which

Should have a full stop at the end.

It's summer! This should change.

The comma needs to be a semi-colon, or the second part should be a new sentence.

No we can't. :(

Successful annotation.

This doesn't work when sharing a PDF via CERNbox though.

Official website: sciencegateway.cern

There is no "dP" in Poisson case, so you can't integrate here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_III_error ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_interpretations

"appropriate", not "right"

"There are wrong methods and appropriate methods." –– Bob Cousins

https://opensnp.org/

This is an example annotation!

http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume15/delgado14a/delgado14a.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means%2B%2B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgboost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_boosting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdaBoost

http://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo/

To address Vanishing gradient problem

See https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/JMLRdropout.pdf

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpropagation

Then again, are citations?

It would still be good to have all the versions of the blog post available for examinations, so that readers can know when content has changed. [Edit: Ah, I see you addressed this later in this paragraph. I still think that even for the consumer you should be able to review versions.]

• See: https://apostilb.github.io/ (source: https://github.com/apostilb/apostilb.github.io)
• Also see: https://medium.com/@RaoOfPhysics/89bd3f2ce0fd

While @neuroamanda and I review each others' posts before "publishing them" via GitHub, in principle, anyone can leave their comments on apostilb before the article goes "live". For example: https://github.com/apostilb/apostilb.github.io/pull/70

Or do we? See We Need a GitHub for Academic Research.

… unless we openly annotate the original articles to point to retractions, corrections, replications etc.

Next step: enable hypothes.is!

It would be good if this statement were itself backed by some data. :)

'The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"'

– https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/

And, although the Standard Model may not be written in stone, the compact description certainly is: https://home.cern/cern-people/updates/2013/03/standard-model-set-stone

Indeed! See another Quantum Diaries post on it: http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/06/26/cern-mug-summarizes-standard-model-but-is-off-by-a-factor-of-2/

But you'll have to talk with John Ellis) about that: http://cds.cern.ch/record/1071200?ln=en

OH MY GOD YES! <3

The term "decay" when applied to non-macro phenomena is terribly misleading for anyone who isn't a physicist.

"Decay" has several meanings (see the Wikipedia page), but it would not be foolish to assume that the term is commonly associated with things like decomposition or biological decays. Even in physics, an orbital decay is a gradual process.

"Transformation" is much more applicable, and is a term I've used myself over the last few years instead of "decay" in this context.

Look at "Four-vectors": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-vector

"Let’s draw Feynman diagrams!" and more, on the Quantum Diaries blog: http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2010/02/14/lets-draw-feynman-diagams/

EDIT: This is already referenced in the article, but I'll leave this link up as a pointer anyway.

Here's a beautiful (if long) explanation of QFT, on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-field-theory/

• ATLAS paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.020
• CMS paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021
• CERN's background pages on the Higgs boson: https://home.cern/topics/higgs-boson

Or is it that all particles that interact with the BEH field have mass? ;)

Typically, though, the matter particles (fermions) are grouped into two, depending on whether they interact with the colour charge (quarks) or not (leptons, which include both the electrically charged leptons and neutrinos).

However, the division into three groups, as shown here, is helpful!

This paper has been summarised at https://apostilb.github.io/2016/08/27/mouse-dna-magnetic-fields/

This paper has been summarised at https://apostilb.github.io/2016/03/05/co2-undersea-volcanoes/

This paper has been summarised at https://apostilb.github.io/2016/03/05/co2-undersea-volcanoes/

URL for the report has changed: http://www.bioinitiative.org/table-of-contents/

See also my presentation given at PCST 2016:

• Presentation itself: https://raoofphysics.github.io/201604_PCST/
• Link to GitHub repo: https://github.com/RaoOfPhysics/201604_PCST
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.50791

DOI: 10.1088/0963-6625/10/1/308 -- NOT Open Access, but accessibly through the CERN Library

DOI: 10.1177/1075547010378658 -- NOT Open Access, but accessibly through the CERN Library

DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2010.543186 -- Open Access

The full report (open access): https://royalsociety.org/policy/publications/1985/public-understanding-science/

• DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547010378658
• Direct link: http://scx.sagepub.com/content/33/1/52

No, the credit belongs to Calvin Teo, and the image is shared under CC BY-SA 2.5.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.50791

This paper has been summarised at https://apostilb.github.io/2016/03/05/co2-undersea-volcanoes/

This paper has been summarised at https://apostilb.github.io/2016/01/30/led-reflectors/

This paper has been summarised at https://apostilb.github.io/2016/01/30/led-reflectors/

Annotations to paper available at https://via.hypothes.is/journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0107740

“Global evaluations might color presumptions about specific traits or influence interpretation of the meaning or affective value of ambiguous trait information. Thus, if we like a person, we often assume that those attributes of the person about which we know little are also favourable.” (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977, p.250)

"A circumpolar distribution is any range of a taxon that occurs over a wide range of longitudes but only at high latitudes; such a range therefore extends all the way around either the North Pole or the South Pole." –– Circumpolar distribution on Wikipedia

i.e. summer in the souther hemisphere

Austral on Wikipedia

conservative, in this case

Increasing densities may be due to populations becoming more concentrated due to whaling (limited area), although "the Californian Blue Whale population (historically a relatively small proportion of the global total) has rebounded to an estimated 97% of its pre-hunting population."

Listen to whale calls on Wikipedia

Typo. Should say "Hindu".

Relevant: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-darwin-didnt-know-45637001/?all

• http://climateaudit.org/2006/04/01/natures-statistical-checklist-for-authors/
• [PDF] http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/checklist.pdf

A source for this claim would be appreciated, because it's a bold and potentially powerful one.

• http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a.html
• http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/v9/n6/full/nchembio.1269.html

• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/diederik-stapels-audacious-academic-fraud.html?pagewanted=all
• http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/01/20/how-diederik-stapel-became-fraud/