Chris Quigg

Thanks to Stony Brook friends for the opportunity to participate in a remarkable Symposium on C.N. Yang and Themes in Contemporary Physics. Program, with links to slides and videos: www.stonybrook.edu/physics/cn-y...

We need and love Great Questions, but ever since Galileo, science has also advanced by asking and answering small questions: arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348

From 34,000 feet over Greenland, congratulations to Francis Halzen and IceCube. A fine choice by the Nobel Committee! I look forward to many more superb results and—with luck—some off-scale surprises. And kudos to the National Science Foundation as we have known it for enlightened support!

Words for Civic Leaders, Canterbury Cathedral, 21st September:

And many more!

Toasting Peter Higgs with his treasured London Pride (in Ramsgate, Kent)!

On an overnight stop in Walmer/Deal (Kent, UK) this reminder of the DESY collider that gave evidence for the gluon’s reality.

I am sad to report that a formidable colleague, Ken Lane (Boston U), has died. Ken made many notable contributions, among them his work on the Cornell charmonium model, dynamical symmetry breaking in the form of extended technicolor, and supercollider physics. He shared the 2011 Sakurai Prize. RIP!

Congratulations to the new CMS leadership team and best wishes to the Collaboration for the march toward HL-LHC! cms.cern/index.php/ne...

Crossing The Pond for Season XXV of village-to-village hiking, exceptionally this year in Kent, UK.

You can listen to the audiobook Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs boson and New Laws of Nature (by Bob Cahn and me) on Audible, Spotify, etc., or for free with a library card on Hoopla.

Celebrating two editions of Grace in All Simplicity

An excellent plan to create a visitor centre honoring JCM. Will support in memory of J. D. Jackson, Master of Classical Electrodynamics.

As a new academic year approaches, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic... for a seminar course in particle physics or enrichment.

At the beginning of a new academic year,

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One week away: audiobook version of Grace in All Simplicity. rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

Applications open now for the Winter 2027 session of the US Particle Accelerator School: uspas.fnal.gov/programs/202...

Only a matter of time before Sean returns to Villanova to put Philly on the map!

DPF2026 at Fermilab is a beehive of activity! Slides at indico.fnal.gov/event/72820/...

For your summer reading pleasure: pegasusbooks.com/books/grace-... Audiobook coming August 18 rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

Today, riders of the Tour de France passed near Boulevard de l'Hypéron in Bagnères-de-Bigorre and close to the Observatoire du Pic du Midi (above le col du Tourmalet).

Music for Independence Day, by American composer Charles Ives (originally for organ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yh...

Happy Fourth of July! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/...

Happy 14th birthday to the Higgs Boson! Much more to learn arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348

RIP François Englert, who illuminated the science of spontaneously broken gauge symmetries: arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0...

Extraordinary progress reported at FCC Week 2026 in Helsinki, indico.cern.ch/event/155212.... Excellent work on many fronts!

Final day of the @princetonupress.bsky.social 50% off sale for Gauge Theories press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... and many fine books!

Another fine bit of spectroscopy from @lhcb.bsky.social! Much exploration remains, including baryons containing (bc) and (bb). Weight diagrams below from Les Houches 1981, before we learned that top is so heavy and fleeting.

Grace in All Simplicity Audiobook to be released August 18, now available for preorder from your favorite provider.

Half-price sale continues through June 7.

Congratulations to ATLAS for this fiendishly difficult observation!

Not too late to register for the 2026 edition of the International Neutrino Summer School at UC Santa Barbara from June 29 to July 10 indico.global/event/16507/...

Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions is half price during the Princeton Press spring sale: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Today is World Press Freedom Day www.un.org/en/observanc.... I am privileged to have journalists in my family.

For Korean friends and colleagues: youtu.be/BShDsOnKq_U

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International flags fly again at Fermilab!

Today is World Book and Copyright Day! Read a book. Respect the creators. www.unesco.org/en/days/worl...

Over decades,groups at CERN, Brookhaven, and Fermilab have mounted dedicated experiments to determine the muon's magnetic moment, made key inventions, assiduously reduced systematic uncertainties, and stimulated deeper theoretical understanding. breakthroughprize.org/News/98

I'm delighted to announce that rhkorea_books has just published the Korean edition of Grace in All Simplicity blog.naver.com/randomhouse1...

Two books for our time: Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday / Die Welt von Gestern; W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz.

My wide-ranging conversation with CERN's Panos Charitos: ep-news.web.cern.ch/content/chri...

eBook version is currently available at a favorable price: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grace-...

Congratulations Joel Butler, @apsphysics.bsky.social W.K.H. Panofsky Prizewinner in Experimental Particle Physics for exceptional leadership in heavy-flavor experiments at Fermilab and @cmsexperiment.bsky.social @cern.bsky.social

Willis Lamb Nobel Lecture, 1955: "I have heard it said that «the finder of a new elementary particle used to be rewarded by a Nobel Prize, but such a discovery now ought to be punished by a $10,000 [now $121,400] fine»". But I celebrate with LHCb. More doubly heavy baryons! Long live spectroscopy!

30% discount on press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... until 15 April with code EVH30.

Students and young postdocs—Apply by April 1 for the Summer Session of the US Particle Accelerator School uspas.fnal.gov/programs/202...

Well worth watching!

Many informative talks at the 60th Anniversary Conference of the Rencontres de Moriond moriond.in2p3.fr/60years/agen...