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Sep 11, 2008, 03:41 AM
Authors : Richard
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Post date : Sep 11, 2008, 03:41 AM
As Taxation readers know, Rufus the dog takes an interest in all things tax, but following my recent entries on the Large Hadron Collider, he is now quite keen on cosmology and particle physics.
(Although that might be because he'd prefer to go walkies with Keeley and Eva rather than me, which should cause a stir in the park.)
He’s also managed to find a bestial connection.
Rufus says he can always find his way home (I may have lost him, but he assures me that he’s never been lost), but he wonders why it is that theoretical physicists are always losing their pets?
Rufus points out that Schrödinger was always looking for his cat.
Apparently, he thought it might be in a box.

But he didn’t like to look in case it was dead.
Very strange; in fact, perhaps we should say up, down, charm, top, bottom and strange (a little quantum physicists’ joke there).
Rufus is also usually looking for cats, and – come to I think of it – probably with the same eventual outcome in mind.
But just as he was about to offer to help Schrödinger to look for his cat, he’s now heard that a Professor Higgs is looking for his bison.

Although Rufus is a bit confused as to why he’s had to spend several years and several million pounds digging a 17-mile tunnel full of pipes and super-cooled magnets to do this.
It’s his ‘boson’ Rufus, not his ‘bison’!
I couldn’t exactly answer Rufus when he asked how many legs a boson had and why it lives in a burrow in Switzerland.

But tax animals can usually find the answers to lots of questions at Taxation.co.uk.
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