Galen T. Pickett

Galen T. Pickett has been a member of the physics faculty at Cal State Long Beach since 1999. He lives in the greater LA area with his spouse, four grown children, and several canines. His writing is inspired by the grandeur of the physical world and the absurdity of the academic world, in nearly equal measure.

Galen T. Pickett

The Word

Elizabeth frowned at the data that poured across her screen, a numerical record of the impossibly small. But there was nothing exotic or terribly remarkable about the collision products that scrolled past, just a series of transverse, elastic proton-antiproton collisions. The very existence of these pbar particles, the antiparticle of the humble proton, was unnerving […]