A Day in the Life, Subatomically Speaking

Bloggers from around the world give a voice to particle physics

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

Perhaps you are one of the millions of physics wannabes in academe, toiling away as a tenured wage slave in an economics department or squirming in your endowed chair in art history.

Maybe you fall asleep at night moaning, "Why didn't I pursue my passion for pions...