The Higgs Boson falls to the efforts of CERN! Maybe...

[Paul F.]

http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-strongly-...46927.html

"Analysis strongly indicates the Higgs Boson has been found".

I'm thinking Cbelts sister who works for CERN may be invovled in a dancin' on the tables party at CERN if they confirm this...

[cbelt3]

Paul-
Yup. She shared some of her personal work on her Google + account. She's part of the Compact Muon Solenoid team. She just got back from maternity leave in time to help write the paper. She did not travel to Italy... funding cutbacks and such.


http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/20...iggs-boson

FWIW.. you gotta love the names of the conferences they attend. And yes... there's a lot of partying. Scientists really know how to party ! (She says the Russians are the biggest boozers)

Here are the programs at the conference
http://moriond.in2p3.fr/QCD/2013/MorQCD13Prog.html

And no. I don't understand any of it. What's a DiJet ? Lepton universality ? Aaarghhh. My brainz....

[mikebw]

cbelt3 wrote:
And no. I don't understand any of it. What's a DiJet ? Lepton universality ? Aaarghhh. My brainz....

I hear Lepton University is quite prestigious! :damnyou:

[eustacetilley]

Popping in for a moment:

I worked on the ATLAS design a few years back. I knew maybe half a dozen members of the thousand member team. I have a few stories...

What is a Higgs Field?
It's where physicists go to celebrate Mass.

Popping out.

[DP]

>What is a Higgs Field?
>It's where physicists go to celebrate Mass.

Geek humor.... OK, I chuckled.

[eustacetilley]

Popping back in again. I feel like I'm caught in a Feynman Diagram...

Here's one short story:
Physicists can get up to strange things at three in the morning. Al Ghiorso doodled in his logbooks, while co-discovering twelve new elements; Carl Haber thought about sound recording, while we waited for the ATLAS detector dosimetry to be completed. (This work was not done at CERN, it was done at Berkeley.)
He applied his ideas, and the Library Of Congress got interested. Dr. Haber, outside of the Physics community, is most famous for his sound recording work. Here is a good summary:
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Arch...blues.html

Now the Ion Chambers that Haber used for ATLAS had an interesting history: The were originally built for Nuclear Physics research, then modified and used again for Radiobiology studies, and then again for Bragg Peak Radiotherapy, and then back again for Radiobiology, and then finally for General Radiation Damage studies.

There is an Apple connection. During my time, all that data was gathered, crunched, and displayed on a Mac IIsi, with a whopping 16MB of RAM, running essentially in realtime, under LabView.

(I wasn't just an observer of all this; I'm directly responsible for the Element 106 Double-Cheese Pizza connection.)

Thanks all, for your interest.

[ka jowct]

Physicists can get up to strange things at three in the morning. Al Ghiorso doodled in his logbooks, while co-discovering twelve new elements; Carl Haber thought about sound recording, while we waited for the ATLAS detector dosimetry to be completed.

Indeed they can.
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The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble

A world-renowned physicist meets a gorgeous model online. They plan their perfect life together.
But first, she asks, would he be so kind as to deliver a special package to her?

[DP]

I'm waiting tho for the definitive answer to gravity. Very weak but works across vast distances. I like the the theory that it works over multiple dimensions which explains the weakness as it's diluted by being spread over all the universes and how it works over vast distances; again, by being spread over multiple universes.

[eustacetilley]

DP wrote:
I'm waiting tho for the definitive answer to gravity. Very weak but works across vast distances. I like the the theory that it works over multiple dimensions which explains the weakness as it's diluted by being spread over all the universes and how it works over vast distances; again, by being spread over multiple universes.

Many years back, a real physicist, (I am _not_ a real physicist.), tried to explain Spin to me. He liked it when people took interest in his work.
He started out with the basics, as it applied to Electromagnetic, and the Strong and Weak Nuclear forces. Many indecipherable equations later, I asked about Gravity. He paused and said something most cryptic. He said something along the lines of: "There are some of us who don't believe Gravity is a force at all- it is just an effect of some other force that we know nothing about."

Thanks DP

[AllGold]

eustacetilley wrote:
...Many indecipherable equations later, I asked about Gravity. He paused and said something most cryptic. He said something along the lines of: "There are some of us who don't believe Gravity is a force at all- it is just an effect of some other force that we know nothing about."

Very interesting. I'd never heard that before. Thanks.