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Hi there ! I am a Catalan
(high-energy) nuclear physicist working in
Bretagne (France)
with an European "Marie-Curie"
Post-Doc Fellowship.
I am working in the analysis of the data from the
PHENIX experiment at the
Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC)
at BNL (NY, USA). My CPU units are thus usually dedicated to the search for a new
state of matter, the Quark-Gluon Plasma, via high-energy photons emitted in
nucleus-nucleus collisions. When my laptop and desktop Linux boxes are not
working on this, they are looking for very-low-energy (radio) photons hopefully emitted by intelligent life somewhere in the space out there.
I am highly motivated for all scientific-driven studies about our universe and
particularly about Fermi's "where are they?" question (http://www.sciam.com/2000/0700issue/0700crawford.html) .
Even a negative result of SETI@home research (i.e. no significant extraterrestrial signal)
will provide us with a very interesting quantitative information about the likelihood of inteligent life in
our universe ! namely about us ... or not ... ;-)
Put it otherwise ...
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
- Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson). (see below for more) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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see above ... or better have some fun :-):
* "Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door:
let's go." - E. E. Cummings (1894-1962), US poet.
* "When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one,
but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." - Leo Burnett.
* "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land
among the stars." - Les Brown.
* "There is just one thing I can promise you about the
outer-space program: your tax dollar will go farther."
- Werner von Braun.
* "Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1
billion stars in the universe you will believe them,
but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have
to touch it to be sure ?"
* "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of
Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
- Mark Russell.
* "Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a
comforting thought for those people who can't remember
where they leave things." - Woody Allen.
* "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and
sometimes I think we're not. In either case the
idea is
quite staggering." - Arthur C. Clarke.
* "Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an
annual free trip around the Sun." - Bumper sticker.
* "With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the
constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits
who continue to insist that there is no such thing as
progress." - Ransom K. Ferm.
* "What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ?
Well ... judging from realistic simulations involving a
sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume
it will be pretty bad." - Dave Barry.
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