Call to action:
Help us compile a physics life list
Bird watchers have life lists of sightings. We think fans of particle physics need a checklist of their own, full of not-to-be missed places, experiences, and artifacts: Fermilab's newborn baby buffalo; America's longest building, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; the six places in the bowels of the Large Hadron Collider where you can stand with one foot in Switzerland and the other in France; a hand-held prototype of the first cyclotron built by E.O. Lawrence, on display at Berkeley Lab. If Einstein's wig or Newton's false teeth existed, we'd throw them in, too.
And so we announce the particle physics life list, which will appear in an upcoming issue of symmetry. You probably have some secret gems of your own to add. Send us your entries for consideration to letters@symmetrymagazine.org with subject line "Life List"; contributors will be acknowledged in the magazine.
The Editors
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