#higgs boson blues

[intotheclash]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Higgs Boson Blues (Official Video)

Ho visto Nick Cave a Lucca, qualche anno fa, Un concerto fantastico. E questo pezzo ipnotico e ossessivo ancora mi risuona nelle vene.

[4threset]

I meant to hold off on posting this illustration of the results from a Particle Accelerator for a later time as I planned on refining and working more on this piece. But since hearing of Peter Higg's passing, I've decided to post this early. Dedicated to my unending love and curiosity for Quantum Mechanics, and Peter Higgs himself who theorized the existence of the Higgs Field and Higgs Boson. Good night, sir.

[jenlrossman]

So I've been thinking about Miles O'Brien and how he was basically the same in the regular universe and the mirror universe

Why did they do that? They even had another character mention it

Could this be why he is the most important man in Starfleet history? Not because he did anything important himself, necessarily, but just by existing as some sort of… dimensional constant, what if he helped someone figure out like, the Grand Unified Theory of how the universes work?

Because we know from Strange New Worlds, there are other dimensions aside from the regular one and the mirror one. There's an entire dimension where everything is musical theater

What if, in every permutation of the multiverse, the one constant is Miles Edward O'Brien?

Just an ordinary guy, blue-collar worker, good dad with the occasional traumatic experience. He doesn't rise to power, he isn't evil, he doesn't sing more than the average person

He isn't a villain, but he doesn't think of himself as a hero either. He doesn't go off and do amazing things every day, and he doesn't want to. He's gay but not really and only for a couple dudes, the same way he is straight but only for one or two women

He's just that guy you can rely on to fix the ship and occasionally do something heroic but mostly he just wants to have a drink with his friends, do a little homoerotic LARPing, not get killed or tortured, and go home to his family

In. Every. Universe.

He is what everyone thought the Higgs boson would be

Miles O'Brien is our God particle that explains the universes

[14dyh]

list of my saved youtube videos that Hange would watch:

A/N: someone watch this nerdy stuff with me pls, i'll go insane. need a hange for myself :') currently watching these videos to feed my nerdy hange delusions :D [i marked my faves with an (*) hehe]

short videos (10-30 minutes)

The Nightmares of Eduardo Valdés-Hevia

The Creatures of Codex Inversus

Nietzsche's Most Dangerous Idea | The Übermensch

Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them | Garry Kasparov

* Decomposing Bodies to Solve Cold Case Murders

Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures | David Gruber

* You Will Never Do Anything Remarkable

* The Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis

* Inspiring the next generation of female engineers | Debbie Sterling | TEDxPSU

The Disturbing Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch

Roko's Basilisk: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment

The 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth

Depth Charge Explosion Soaks Dr. Tatiana In Water

Monster Surgeon: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

The Biology of Giants Explained | The Science of Giants

I Made an Ecosystem With a Mini Pond Inside, Here’s How!

CSI Special Insects Unit: Forensic Entomology

not-so-short but under 1 hr (31-59 minutes)

* The unpredictable tale of The Dead Man's Story by J. Hain Friswell

Planets: The Search for a New World | Space Science | Episode 4 | Free Documentary

* Let's Visit the World of the Future [tw: might be a bit disturbing, it's an interesting scifi horror though]

The Mystery of Matter: “INTO THE ATOM” (Documentary)

* Australia's Deadliest Coast (Full Episode) | When Sharks Attack: There Will Be Blood

* How Leonardo da Vinci Changed the World

long videos (over 1 hr)

Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind

* The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) Colorized | Sci-Fi Horror | Cult Classic | Full Movie

* AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary

Particle Fever - Documentary

* Exploring The Underwater World | 4K UHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth

What was the Earth like in the Age of Giant Prehistoric Creatures? | Documentary Earth History

[punk-chicken-radio]

nick cave & the bad seeds - higgs boson blues

-ax and TOS

[thehollywoodnecromancer]

Void help, I’m making a playlist

The vibe is: isolated desert highways at night, where the only sign of life is a scrappy motel at the side of the road, with dim yellow lights.

Something hopeless, isolating, liminal, guitar-led, maybe 70s

Suggestions would be much appreciated!!!!

So far I have:

- Hotel California by the Eagles

- Thoroughfare by Ethel Cain

- Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers

- Wait for Me by Anaïs Mitchell, Justin Vernon, Ben Knox Miller

- Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac

- Queen of Nothing by the Crane Wives

- Summer’s Almost Gone by the Doors

- Higgs Boson Blues by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

- How to Become Clairvoyant by Robbie Robertson

- Khe Sanh by Cold Chisel

- Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

[archive-z]

i was tagged by @dis-agreeable a LONG time ago & unfortunately my browser crashed & did not save my poll so here is a FRESH top ten 🪩 tagging @ghstbird @volkswagonblues @sandovers

[t-xa]

Polyalloy Pathways

(Part 1)

After an unceremonious arrival in a post-apocalyptic timeline where Skynet successfully launched its nuclear holocaust, Casse the T-XA patiently waited in the shadows of the ruined city until dusk amongst the destruction, in an attempt to locate the positions of certain stars and other astronomical objects in the night sky.

Armed with a copy of the chrono-spatial co-ordinates that were programmed into the time displacement equipment from the timeline he departed from, Casse had no way to determine if the equipment was accurate and if he had ended up in the right place, at the right time. Being able to determine this would be of great use to his current, self-imposed mission.

Unfortunately, the sheer volume of smoke, haze and smog from the beginnings of a nuclear winter thwarted his multiple attempts, even with his boosted and enhanced visual sensors. Casse then loaded up secondary methods, picked the one which was the most accurate but still was still much less accurate than using astronomy and astrophysics, but could be useful to some extent, but Casse really had no other choice.

Scanning the ruins of the buildings directly around him, Casse compared them to the files he had of the current city from a timeline when Judgement Day had never actually happened, comparing the ruined husks to what they would have looked like only a few short months ago, and after a few seconds he arrived at a 90% confidence rate this was the correct place, and that the circular error probable rate of the spatial location chrono-teleportation was a surprisingly minimal 10 metres. This was more accurate than the ICBMs Skynet had launched in what appeared to be only a few months prior to his arrival.

Radiation sensors built into his highly advanced next-generation mimetic polyalloy confirmed that, based on background radiation readings of various isotopes, Judgement Day had occured between and 4 and 6 weeks prior, and that surviving humans would be few, but buried deep underground in relative safety.

Casse could only hope Julian was one of them, as locating him was of the utmost importance to his mission. And, he had a good idea where to start to look.

The one tonne of liquid metal then emitted creaking and slurping noises as started to melt down into a pool of shimmering silvery blue liquid metal, spilling onto the ruined roadway. It twitched, and after a few seconds, three humanoid shapes rose up from the puddle, and molded themselves into faceless featureless humanoid shapes. Not one drop remained on the road.

Even in this split state, each of Casse's components was roughly equal to Skynet in intelligence, and he was the most superior and intelligent creation to ever walk on this earth. But Casse didn't consider that. He didn't need to. He already knew.

Thanks to the esoteric nature of his 2nd generation liquid metal, each of Casse's components remained connected in a giant mesh network through the quantum foam, so his hive mind remained connected at all times in a giant electronic network of higgs-boson particles and other exotic quantum mechanical phenomena. Again, Casse didn't need to consider this. He had a rather peculiar human to locate.

The three liquid metal components remained in their shimmering form. There was no need, at this stage, to waste resources and morph into a proper human appearance. Silently, they walked off in different locations to comb the wreckage for clues of human habitation and a certain underground room Julian was hopefully sheltering in. It was time to get to work, and the less time spent in this hellish almost alien-like landscape the better.

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Higgs Boson Blues

[sairceketli]

Who cares, who cares what the future brings?

[marlinspirkhall]

Trick or treat!!!

Why hello there, you get an excerpt from the Flour Baby Academy AU fic I abandoned in 2020, so I'm sorry that the writing style is a bit clunky. Also apparently Chekov is goth/emo, which I blame @gender-snatched for entirely:

Jim stops walking. His heart beats just a little faster, and he glances to the doors of the auditorium. He hasn’t felt this unsettled in one of Almiratov’s lectures since the day he walked in and saw the words “Tarsus IV” on the holo-board. As if sensing this, the professor catches his eye, and her gaze softens. “Sit down, cadet. Participation in this module is a necessary part of Starfleet Survival Skills, and a passing grade is required of all Command Track students." "Ah, so that's why I haven't been given my own ship yet," Jim attempts an easy smile, as he approaches the front row. "Among other things," she says, her voice tinged with exhaustion. The Higgs-Boson auditorium is the smallest on campus, with only five rows of seats. There are twenty in each row, all in alternating colours- yellow, green, red and blue. Jim is careful to avoid the yellow ones- he learned the hard way that Almiratov always picks someone from those seats when she wants to ask a question- and settles beside Sulu with a bump. "You're here too?" Sulu looks up. "I got a mysterious summons." He holds up his PADD, which bears the same message Jim received. "I thought we'd finished all this Survival stuff last year-" "The moment you stop surviving, you die," a voice says behind them. "Pavel?" Jim turns, and is greeted by thick eyeliner and jet black hair. "Isn't this a third year class?" Chekhov shrugs. "I want to get it out of the way. More time to focus on-" his eyes darken. "Stuff."

ask box trick or treat (fic writer edition)

[taniushka12]

tagged by @lostinthewoodsomewhere!! thank you love <3

last song: Higgs Boson Blues by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (and Ten Tonne Skeleton by Royal Blood, and Trainwreck 1979 by Death From Above 1979) (what do these songs have in common you ask? they're all from the quantum break soundtrack sjshsjd ithas SUCH a good soundtrack im reeling 😭😭)

favourite colour: blues! dark yet saturated blues, like the sky after the sunset or before the sunrise 😌

currently reading: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (and, more specifically, book 2: The Restaurant at the End Of The Universe)

currently watching: Evil! Was about to start ep7s4 when you tagged me :'D

last movie: uff.... I've gotten pretty lazy with letterboxd so im... not sure.... OH it was Rollerball (1975)

sweet, spicy or savoury: hmm... savoury i guess..? can I say bittersweet?

relationship status: alas, single 😔

current obsession: remedy games............ haven't had the time to properly obsess over them bc of my studies, but suffice to say im Constantly thinking abt em 👁👁👁👁

tea or coffee: Coffee 💕

the last thing I googled: 14 hp notebook. Nothing too exciting, my sister was thinking of buying a computer and wanted my opinion on smth u_u

Tagging: @autisticwriterblog, @wolf-three-fifty-nine, @florallychaotic, @sluiba, @asalesbian and everyone else who might wanna do it <3

[frozen-fountain]

It's ten years today since I made a pilgrimage down to Brighton to see Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live in concert. My purpose today isn't to get into the circumstances that preceded this or the specific reasons why being there meant so very much to me; maybe some day I'll do that under this name as well. For now, suffice to say it was the best show I've been to, and one I doubt will ever be surpassed. I think the Bad Seeds were on stage for the better part of three hours, with two encores and everyone clearly having a great time, reflected just as strongly in the audience. I really hope I get to go again eventually, though it'll be a more sombre affair now. And that's fine. I've always looked on his music as a big congregation that plumbs the depths of human existence without ever denying or shutting out the light, and it's this that's struck such a resonant chord with me across the years and made him one of the most key pillars in my musical journey.

One of my most vivid memories of the night doesn't even concern what was happening on stage. The whole time, I was fascinated by the two ageing punks sitting in front of us. I love ageing punks; I was raised by one, and they're my favourite people at shows because of their sheer enthusiasm for the music and utter disregard for what's generally considered age-appropriate dress and behaviour. Deeply inspiring stuff. But I remember one of them lifting both fists in a cheer when this song (from 1986) started playing – and he did the same for Higgs Boson Blues, a track from the contemporaneous album. And I was struck by what a gift it must have been to watch this wonderful group evolve and shift over the years, to meet new songs at different stages in life, and to remain no less excited for their new creations even decades later.

It was many things, but to me, it was a thick, bold line under what I'd spent the previous year working to convince myself of as I left my youth behind me, and that this band's congregational music helped so much in drilling through my obstinate, oblivion-seeking skull: there are and always will be things worth sticking around for.

I don't know anything about this man besides what the back of his head looks like and his enthusiasm for Bad Seeds old and new. He never even turned around to look at me in turn. I highly doubt we'll ever meet again, and if we do, I'll have no way of knowing it. But I still smile every now and then when I listen to Sad Waters, or simply when my mind wanders back to the show from time to time. When I need to remember the future is unwritten and the world has a capacity for many things, and one is endless surprise. Regular readers of whatever it is I'm doing here will know my young life was not the happiest, and I expended a lot of time and energy wrestling with the desire to end it. As I write this I'm closing in on the eight-year anniversary of the last time I seriously contemplated suicide – which is something I couldn't have even dreamed about saying back in 2013. It's these experiences, these moments of connection between strangers through the shared appreciation of another stranger's artistic expression, that go along way to making this so, and I'll never forget it.

This last decade has intensified a cultural shift that was gathering steam around the time of the concert. And one of many reasons I feel conversation can be so divisive and contentious is that we're rapidly becoming more aware to how badly we can hurt one another through simply existing as we are. Whether it's the descendants of colonisers reckoning with the ways we continue to benefit from that bloody history, or men being pushed to evaluate the allowances they are granted to take up space persistently denied women, or any of us learning the benefits of initiating awkward conversations about boundaries in our interpersonal lives, what is bit by bit rising to the surface of our awareness is how easy it is to become a bad story in someone's life just by being people. It's a very difficult thing to come to terms with no matter who you are.

And I wanted to write this memory down and share it because, at least to me, it's a reminder that we can help one another, too, and often without trying or knowing. You don't know what you might have done for a stranger you had no idea was watching. A simple, unguarded gesture that I doubt this man thought about for so much of a second has stayed with me, cheered me, and reminded me of several crucial lessons when I most needed them. If I've learned anything in the years since it's that, simply by being you and being open with your joys, I can guarantee you're someone's good story, too. Even if you'll never know about it.

In the meantime, if you're so inclined... maybe tell me a story about a time a stranger helped you in a similar way?

[fallingtowers]

every couple years i remember what a fucking incredible song higgs boson blues is

[gideonthefirst]

tagged by @obeetlebeetle ages ago to list ten songs

Life During Wartime by Talking Heads

Having a Stop Making Sense moment. As if it's my fault.

2. Higgs Boson Blues by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Submitted this for the current Evil League round, which is just this image:

3. The Calendar Hung Itself... by Bright Eyes

See my pinned post. As if it's my fault.

4. We Are Almost Down to the Shore by Jimmie Struthers, rendition by Dom Flemons

Saw Dom Flemons live twice this weekend, his performance of this song alongside with the whole audience singing was really awesome

5. Ezekiel 7 & the Permanent Efficacy of Grace by The Mountain Goats

I have a migraine. Sorry.

6. Tipsy by J-Kwon, covered by clipping.

THE MOVEMENT! THE MOMENT!

7. All Of the Women by Allison Russell

She said I used to be a dancer some grace you don't lose thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up

8. Runnin' Away, rendition by Hubby Jenkins

Got an email that he was doing a show nearby soon and so decided to get into him and this last treck on his LP is awesome I really really like it

9. baethoven by Ekko Astral

STREAM PINK BALLOONS!

10. 9/12 by Home Is Where

do Not want to go to work tomorrow.

[youjustwaitsunshine]

yes im having a good time

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