If HEP bloggers were Muppets,
which Muppet would they be?
which Muppet would they be?
Here is the answer.
- Gonzo the Great: Lubos@Reference Frame (on odd-numbered days)
The one true uncompromising artist. Not treated seriously by other Muppets, but adored by chicken.
- Animal: Lubos@Reference Frame (on even-numbered days)
My favorite Muppet. Pure mayhem and destruction. Has only two modes: beat it, or eat it.
- Swedish Chef: Tommaso@Quantum Diaries Survivor
The Muppet with a penchant for experiment. No one understands what he says but it's always amusing nonetheless.
- Kermit the Frog: Matt@Of Particular Significance
Born Muppet leader, though not clear if he really wants the job.
- Miss Piggy: Sabine@Backreaction
Not the only female Muppet, but certainly the best known. Admired for her stage talents but most of all for her punch.
- Rowlf: Sean@Preposterous Universe
The real star and one-Muppet orchestra. Impressive as an artist or and as a comedian, though some complain he's gone to the dogs.
- Statler and Waldorf: Peter@Not Even Wrong
Constantly heckling other Muppets from the balcony, yet every week back for more.
- Fozzie Bear: Jester@Résonaances
Failed stand-up comedian. Always stressed that he may not be funny after all.
In preparation:
-If theoretical physicists were smurfs...
-If LHC experimentalists were Game of Thrones characters...
-If particle physicists lived in Middle-earth...
-If physicists were cast for Hobbit's dwarves...
and more.
18 comments:
Amazing post. +1
If physicists were in Middle Earth we would have been recruited to work at Isengard on a project to make an even more powerful ring.
April jokes aside, I am still most impressed by the accurate figure on the present status of the X-ray bananas in an earlier post on Resonaances. Expectably, nothing changed since then, so it also fits today's status quo.
Haha... very funny
Luv it!... but who is Big Bird???
Luboš certainly deserves the double dip, for he tolerates no flapdoodle in any venue. Alas, all the Euclid in the world will not draw an undistorted, unfolded, uncut map of the world. Get a testably better founding postulate, physics. Bee is much more elegant than Miss Piggy, whose humor derives from contradiction of appearance and deeds. Needs more of "The Countess."
Dr. Strangepork? Quantum Diaries. Heavy gauge copper piping or self-annihilating PEX, a plumber will sell you anything.
Oscar the Grouch: Peter Woit
Always grouchy about SUSY and String Theory and he wants SUSY and String Theory and basically any BSM physics to fail and not show up at the LHC.
Grouchy
Who agrees with me? I may be wrong.
Sesame Street Martians ("yip yip yip"): Uncle Al
Nobody understands him.
Jacques Distler is Oscar the Grouch. Always grumpy, has rarely be seen on the show in recent years, is compulsively hoarding Macs.
Come on guys, no one is grumpy. We are all one big loving family ;)
Great post!
Distiller is no Oscar. Under the grouchy exterior, oscar is a good guy.
I sometimes ask Peter Woit, on his blog, about what he would prefer happen at the LHC:
1. SUSY is discovered, leading the way to a better understanding of what's happening beyond the standard model
and
2. Nothing is discovered, nothing at all, other than a plain SM Higgs
and he always deletes my comment. I'm guessing because he doesn't want SUSY to be discovered (that's, after all, one of the main themes of his blog - that SUSY is not gonna happen) and because he doesn't want people to know that he wants only the SM to be at the LHC and doesn't want to appear like he's against progress.
So, if he picks 1, then it goes against his crusade against SUSY. But if he picks 2, then he looks like a bad guy. So it's a no-win situation for him, so he just deletes the comment.
I think I even asked him how he would feel if evidence for string showed up in the LHC and he didn't reply. Not surprised.
:)
How mean of Peter! Such a poignant and relevant comment and he doesn't appreciate it ;)
Ha ha ha...
I will survive, Jester. :-)
Anonymous, you are a bit like a Christian who talks with a critic of the religion, and then says, 'But what would you prefer to happen when you die: you go to Christian Heaven, or you just cease to exist'. If the critic refuses to play that game, that is neither evidence for Christianity, nor is it evidence of the critic's moral or intellectual turpitude.
Woit's fantasy seems to be that the SM will be obtained from a twisted form of N=8 supergravity. Ask him about that and maybe he'll answer.
I nominate Gerard 't Hooft for Bunsen.
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