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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #580 on: July 04, 2012, 07:55:47 PM »

But that's still 6-sigma on A Higgs Boson, not one with 0-spin per se, right?
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #581 on: July 04, 2012, 08:06:14 PM »

Right, the 0- or 2-spin question is sure to be addressed with further observations, but the more important thing was to establish where the boson actually is located (and that it existed) and the processes were focused on discerning that.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #582 on: July 06, 2012, 07:09:12 AM »

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On the day we reserve to tell ourselves America is great - July 4 - Europe reminds us that we suck at science. #HiggsBoson
    — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) July 4, 2012

Man, that is HARSH, Neil.

Harsh, but well-deserved.  I think Our Founding Fathers would approve, because Our Founding Fathers believed whatever I project onto them.

More nerd jokes at Boing Boing.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #583 on: July 06, 2012, 07:43:30 AM »

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Why didn't they let Danny Glover announce the "Higgs" part of the whole Higgs boson thing? #toooldforthissigma

I had to laugh at that tag.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #584 on: July 06, 2012, 08:40:10 AM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #585 on: July 06, 2012, 08:45:04 AM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #586 on: July 06, 2012, 04:05:53 PM »

Quote from: The God Particle
This boson is so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our final understanding of the nature of matter, yet so elusive, that I have given it a nickname: the God Particle. Why God Particle? Two reasons. One, the publisher wouldn't let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing. And two, there is a connection, of sorts, to another book, a much older one...

The author goes on to quote the Tower of Babel story. The metaphor is that like men built the Tower of Babel to find God, men built the LHC to find the particle.

If you ask me, he nicknamed it the God Particle for no other reason than to make his book sound more important to a less scientifically literate audience.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #587 on: August 01, 2012, 07:27:34 AM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #588 on: August 01, 2012, 12:02:55 PM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #589 on: August 05, 2012, 06:45:50 PM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #590 on: August 06, 2012, 03:38:25 AM »

So hey, how about that throwing an atomic-robot-car-on-a-rocket-crane-on-a-sled-on-a-rocket at Mars and making a picture perfect landing?
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #592 on: August 15, 2012, 01:33:10 PM »

Putting the "BM" in "Bill and Melinda": Gates Foundation awards prizes for high-tech toilets.

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The first prize award of $100,000 went to the California Institute of Technology for a solar-powered design that uses an electrochemical reactor to break down human waste into hydrogen gas, which can then be stored in fuel cells.

The second-prize winner, Loughborough University, received $60,000 for a self-contained system that decomposes fecal sludge by heating it at high temperatures without oxygen, producing burnable "biological charcoal," while at the same time recovering water and salts.

Third prize went to the University of Toronto, which earned a $40,000 award for a system that sanitizes feces and urine through a combination of mechanical dehydration, low-temperature heat, sand filtering, and exposure to ultraviolet light.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #593 on: August 18, 2012, 03:18:58 PM »

The Sun is TOO ROUND
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #594 on: August 18, 2012, 03:30:01 PM »

on the scale of how little any given cosmic phenomenon is likely to make me lose any sleep

being

1: the heat death of the universe
2: an asteroid-related extinction event
3: black holes
4: the mind-numbingly colossal void of space
5: a galactus fart

the sun being too round ranks a solid 4.8
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #595 on: August 18, 2012, 03:46:38 PM »

It's not so much cause for worry as it has neat implications for structural mechanics.  Something that maintains virtually perfect form when it's spinning as fast as the sun (1.241 miles per second) is worth studying.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #596 on: August 19, 2012, 06:33:20 AM »

Good news about the heat death of the universe, last I heard there is more and more evidence that the universe will be too busy ripping itself violently apart before that can even happen.

So, at least there's that.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #597 on: August 19, 2012, 08:33:20 AM »

I doubt it. The universe is too lazy.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #598 on: August 19, 2012, 10:00:52 PM »

You say that now, but dark energy's gonna get'cha!

and by 'you' I mean the largely dead cinders of an ancient universe
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #599 on: August 19, 2012, 10:01:46 PM »

Seriously man, journal articles or it won't happen.
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