I don’t live there any more

And that’s okay.
Of course I’m not where I live, either; I’m in Newport News, where there has been, for the past roughly 24 hours, snow on the ground. Maybe half an inch.
Unpossible!
Well, no, it did snow during the three winters we lived here. About an inch. Total. For all three combined. So not unpossible, just [...]

Synergy

I counted this morning when I parked my car at Jefferson Lab. There were about 40 cars in the near end of the parking lot I used, and of those, five (including mine) were Priuses.
Proof if proof were needed I’m driving a nerdmobile.

PREX

PREX, the Lead Radius Experiment, will use parity violating electron scattering from a Pb-208 target to determine the radius of that nucleus’s neutron distribution to 1% accuracy. In heavy nuclei, the neutrons are expected to be distributed over a slightly larger radius than the protons, but experimental evidence for this neutron “skin” is not very [...]