Valentine's Day

last modified 16-02-2011 17:48

If flowers or a diamond are out of question as a Valentine's Day gift, you might go for chocolate. "Symmetry Breaking", the joint magazine by Fermilab and SLAC on the extra dimensions of particle physics, turns to the ESRF.

This work by scientists from Amsterdam University working at beamline DUBBLE/BM26 explaining why chocolate often develops a white, fat bloom layer on its surface, is already a few years old, but on Valentine's Day, it is topical year over year:

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2011/02/14/chocolat-a-la-particle-accelerator/

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