A Quantum Diaries Survivor

I am guilty. I feel guilty.

I skipped a whole afternoon of talks at the CDF collaboration meeting, to go on a tour of the Elba island with my family.

We headed towards Lacona, which has a nice long sand beach, but there was too much people there, and so we left. We found a small beach nearby that had clear waters and not nearly as many visitors, and spent there our afternoon…

Later, I learned that Rick Field had given a fantastic review talk on QCD physics from the seventies onwards.

Rick Field is a colleague in CDF, but well before CDF was born he used to publish papers on QCD with none less than Feynman. In fact, the Feynman-Field model is a cornerstone of modern QCD.

I feel sorry for having missed his talk. On the other hand… My kids are three and seven years old, but they are growing fast. I have to grab the chances to spend leisure afternoons with them - there are a finite number of them left!