The garden, at Jencks' private home at Portrack House in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, is designed to represent themes and ideas rather than what many see as the real purpose – to mount a horticultural display.
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Yesterday, Jencks played host to physicist Professor Peter Higgs and director-general of CERN, Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, to discuss the possibility of creating a similar concept in Geneva.
Wow. You would think the Director of CERN has more things on his plate to worry about with the LHC than thining about what type of a garden to put at CERN. Can't he just leave this to people in charge of the grounds?
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I'm happy to hear that physicists are planting gardens!
But the real reason I came searching for a physics blog is because I have a question. I'm not a physicist, only an interested layman. I've been musing over the theory of dark matter. My question is, why doesn't it clump up?
To elaborate a bit: We're told that galaxies are embedded in haloes of dark matter. The theory is that a galaxy has many times more mass than we can observe directly. Why, then, is it that the sun doesn't? Why doesn't the sun draw in a bunch of dark matter (through gravitation) and keep it?
Any light you can shed on this question (so to speak) would be interesting!
--Jim Aikin
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