Tom Junk

I guess I became a physicist because it was fun. Even beginners and underdogs and newbies can be right – and prove that they’re right. People have to listen to them because they listen to the data. I get to work with a lot of smart, capable people. Neutrino oscillations may have one of the last bits of particle physics that we don’t know yet and can reach. I used to work on CDF and OPAL, and we’ve learned a lot of things from particle colliders. Now we get to see what neutrinos have to show us. We have to build gigantic detectors and work very hard to calibrate them and understand how neutrinos interact with them. It’s nature we’re after.