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At Particle Lab, a Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths
NY Times ^
| April 5. 2011
| DENNIS OVERBYE
Posted on 04/10/2011 6:32:18 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
04/10/2011 6:32:22 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
It wasn't the higgs from what I've read. In the right energy range but no interactions that were predicted appeared. Still no ‘graviton’ either from ongoing underground experiments. In my best eric cartmann voice “Lame”.
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posted on
04/10/2011 6:37:12 PM PDT
by
allmost
To: neverdem
Could be a we need more funding bump.
To: neverdem
I think the most probable “explanation for this mysterious bump” is that “once the worlds most powerful particle accelerator and now slated to go dark forever in September or earlier, whenever Fermilab runs out of money to operate it.” and they need a publicity stunt to look for donors.
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posted on
04/10/2011 6:39:20 PM PDT
by
deltaromeo11
(Isaiah 5:20)
To: org.whodat
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posted on
04/10/2011 6:45:54 PM PDT
by
rbg81
To: El Gato; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; Dianna; ...
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posted on
04/10/2011 6:46:11 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: deltaromeo11
they need a publicity stunt to look for donors... They've discovered Governmentium. Again.
Morons. The only matter in existence that increases in mass as it decays.
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posted on
04/10/2011 6:56:50 PM PDT
by
C210N
(0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
To: deltaromeo11
It's good info we are not smart enough, yet, to figure out. The Tevatron has had an amazing run, due to the dedicated people working there.
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posted on
04/10/2011 6:57:29 PM PDT
by
allmost
To: rbg81
Maybe.Still the Standard model is looking more and more like the Ptolemaic astronomical model which kept getting more and more complicated. Then Copernicus proposed a new(old) heliocentric model.Beginning with Kepler’s new measurements, which showed that
the heliocentric model fit the data about as well, and the addition of new stuff by Galileo, new math models and the work of Newton. Out goes Ptolemy. The question is, OK, who is the Copernicus of atomic theory?
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posted on
04/10/2011 6:59:18 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(Pray with the suffering souls.)
To: neverdem
NEEDS MORE MEGABUCKS!!!
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posted on
04/10/2011 6:59:33 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: neverdem
Giovanni Punzi, the Fermilab physicist who is spokesman for the international team that did the work 'Sounds like a Punzi scheme to me....
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posted on
04/10/2011 7:10:18 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Biggs Hosin')
To: neverdem
I’m still waiting for confirmation that 2 Princeton physicists claimed was a particle they were able to accelerate that was faster than light-this was several years ago. BTW-how would you ever prove something is faster than light?
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posted on
04/10/2011 7:13:16 PM PDT
by
Larry381
(Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare)
To: neverdem
I have long believed there is a kind of a massless particle that carries momentum at sub-speed of light velocities.
And the sum total of that momentum, divided by C, is the dark-matter side of the universe.
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posted on
04/10/2011 7:15:17 PM PDT
by
djf
(Dems and liberals: Let's redefine "marriage". We already redefined "natural born citizen".)
To: neverdem
Another "Who ordered that?" moment.
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posted on
04/10/2011 7:18:59 PM PDT
by
AndrewC
To: allmost; neverdem
I hope it's not another high-Z anomaly event. /sarc>
Cheers!
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posted on
04/10/2011 7:58:38 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: neverdem
Huge discovery right before they're being shut down?
Fermi Lab is about 25 minutes from me.....a huge complex in a suburban Chicago campus/park setting with deer running around the wooded part of the vast acreage.
The Lab has money to operate till September. A request was put in to the feds for $100 million to keep the Tevatron running for three more years.....but the request was denied by the Department of Energy.
The Lab hope to reassign the major employees but lots of the more peripheral ones will lose their jobs....and the merchants and businesses in the adjacent town of Batavia will take a big hit.
Leni
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posted on
04/10/2011 8:14:43 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(Obama....you'll have to pry all my incandescent lightbulbs from my cold, dead fingers!)
To: org.whodat
>> “Could be a we need more funding bump.” <<
.
Highly likely.
To: Larry381
It arrived before it left?
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posted on
04/10/2011 11:20:19 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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posted on
04/12/2011 6:11:58 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Larry381
BTW-how would you ever prove something is faster than light? Look for it yesterday.
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posted on
04/13/2011 5:29:49 AM PDT
by
Paradox
(Obama gets Trumped.)
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