I’m huge over there, they love me.

Yes that’s right, I’m going to Japan! The exciting world of particle physics just never stops. I’m going to the International Lattice Field Theory Network workshop, which you can read all about here.

Of course, travel from Ithaca NY to Tokyo is, well, long. I spend roughly 18 hours in the air or in airports, each way. And, to top it all off, the conference is two and a half hours by train from Narita airport.

But, there’s one cool bit in all this travel. The directions to the hotel include the following bit:

“Then, you take the Shinkansen super-express to Mishima station”

So I can die a happy man, having been on the Shinkansen super-express traveling at 270 km/hr. For those of you who are dying to know, the Shinkansen super-express looks like this

SWEET!