Dear All…

Last year, instead of posting Christmas cards, I made a small donation to charity and sent out e-mails. To make it special, I attached a gift – everyone was sent a Higgs Boson.  Some people wrote back that the attachment was missing – well they are difficult to see, but it was definitely there or they wouldn’t have received it; that is the glory of quantum physics.  Others questioned whether the one I sent was real.  I can assure you that it was, indeed, the genuine particle.  As I said then, it puts the mass in Christmas.  Because it is unclear what would happen were two Higgs Bosons to be found in the same place, I am not sending any more this year, but have donated one to charity.

I want to wish you all a wonderful, happy, peaceful and lovely Christmas, and a glorious, successful and loving New Year.   The better to keep in touch, I have bitten the bullet and started social networking.  I am on Facebook, and appear as David Stoll – a cunning ruse designed to make it easier for you all to find me.   Send messages and I’ll respond.  I have even started to tweet.  (I am so proud.  In only a few weeks, the number of my followers has risen exponentially from one to two to four.)  There I am David Michael Stoll, a longer name for shorter postings.  Please follow me and I’ll follow you.

With the best wishes you can possibly imagine,  David