{"id":907,"date":"2025-02-12T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=907"},"modified":"2025-02-12T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:27:59","slug":"lab-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"Lab Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(apologies to John Masefield)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I must go down to the lab again, to the lonely lab and the beam,<br \/>\nAnd all I ask is polarized muons, as strange as that might seem;<br \/>\nAnd the flashing lights and tangled cables and bright computer screen,<br \/>\nAnd a spectrum showing a signal that has never before been seen.<\/p>\n<p>I must go down to the lab again, for the call of the muon\u2019s decay<br \/>\nIs a wild call and a clear call that has great things to say;<br \/>\nAnd all I ask is a well-tuned beam on a tiny final focus,<br \/>\nAnd a magical sample steeped in theoretical hocus-pocus.<\/p>\n<p>I must go down to the lab again, to the isolated life,<br \/>\nTo the pion\u2019s way and the muon\u2019s way where science replaces strife;<br \/>\nAnd all I ask is a data plot that all can comprehend,<br \/>\nAnd quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the owl shift\u2019s at its end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(For Rob Kiefl&#8217;s retirement party, 8 Feb 2025)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(apologies to John Masefield) &nbsp; I must go down to the lab again, to the lonely lab and the beam, And all I ask is polarized muons, as strange as that might seem; And the flashing lights and tangled cables and bright computer screen, And a spectrum showing a signal<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=907\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-occasional","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}