Thank you Michael! June 11, 2006
Posted by dorigo in Blogroll, personal, physics.trackback
Well, this post is about Michael, who besides being a very knowledgeable and successful physicist, possesses another quality I do not have, and for which I envy him a lot: the capacity of expressing praise, and the related contagious enthusiasm he shows for the work of others.
I worked with him some time ago, and whenever I did something he appreciated, he could find comments that made me feel good.
Well, we are still collaborators in both CDF and CMS, but we haven't worked together for a while now. However, I see he has not changed his style when he praises something. He wrote a post about my own recent posts on physics results by CDF: http://muon.wordpress.com/2006/06/11/tommasos-tips/
In it, he links my site three times, and says he tips his hat for me. Well, what can I say. Thank you!
However, Michael has to share the praise, if there is any to recognize in the few posts I wrote, because he was the one that stimulated me into writing something useful about the physics I would hear at the CDF collaboration meeting.
Also, I was brought back in the right track with my blogging, which had diverted from physics out of laziness… My top priority is indeed outreach: that is the real reason for the existence of this blog. So I have to keep doing physics divulgation here if I can.
Gosh, Tommaso, this is very flattering. At first I was nervous about seeing my mug shot on the same page as al-Zarqawi! But you write very nice things, much too nice in fact - it would not be hard to find collaborators who have a slightly different perspective….
Anyway, I think your efforts at physics outreach are truly excellent and are a major inspiration for me, together with the blog “Not Even Wrong” by Peter Woit and “Cosmic Variance.” I hope we can keep this going for the next couple of years at least.
Have a great vacation!
Yes, I thought it was kind of an awkward placement, above the Time cover pic… Could do nothing to avoid it though.
I sure think our effort is bound to produce dividends, and I think it is our duty as scientists to try and “sell” science more. So this will surely go on and expand.
Cheers,
T.