CERNE LAB IN Switzerland -- Major News

by Band on the Run 17 Replies latest jw experiences

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  Band on the Run

  If the test went well, there are amazing ramifications. No article I read or broadcast news announced that after the scientists complete their work, we all transport to Nirvana or something. I read Einstein bio by Einstein a couple of years ago b/c I thought I could understand the theories better than in a straight scientific account. He theorized so many things and had to wait until technology progressed to test them. He was right concerning his early work. Einstein was old and at Princeton when I grew up. I don't recall the exact dates but his work was so early.

  The particle collider is revealing so much. It is so exciting to hear about even on a casual basis. This works sounds more important than going to the moon and leaving garbage up there.
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  botchtowersociety

  From what I understand, statistically, the results are only 3 sigma. We've had, IIRC, over 2 sigma detections at the Tevatron. 5 sigmas are generally considered "proof" in particle detection.
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  FatFreek 2005

  It's all getting so technologically advanced -- someone's gotta stop it, otherwise there'll be another Tower of Babel thingy. The end must certainly be near.

  
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  Band on the Run

  Awesome cartoon.
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  Band on the Run

  The members who know particle physics:

  I don't think you can assume that laypeople know physics to the same degree as basic biologiy or chemistry backgrounds. People used to cheat looking at my papers. Our physics prof left a note for a gf that cheating from me in any other class might be a fine strategy but not in physics class. If you summarize the work and proof preferred, I would be very grateful.
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  Londo111

  It was my childhood dream to become a theoretical physicist. I would like to blame it all on the Organization, but the truth is--I never had the "right stuff". Some people become Olympic athletes, others cheer from the sidelines. I am in the latter.

  Of course, even if I had the intellectual aptitude, the Organization would have stepped in anyway. My parents said No to higher education…though eventually the Society relented in the early 90's and I did end up going to a technical college and getting a two-year degree.

  I've a hard time understanding the Higgs Mechanism and how it leads to mass. Yes, I understand the illustrations they use to impart the concept, but they are loose analogies and they don't really give me insight as a layman.
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  stillin

  here's a great link for the latest news as well as the past accomplishments

  http://ww2.uslhc.us/News
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  JeffT

  I met the three physicists that won the 1990 Nobel prize for proving the existence of quarks. The best comment about their work came from the father of one of them (I would guess the gentleman was about 80 at the time). My wife and I were seated at table with him at a lunch in the American Embassy. Someone else at the table asked him about his son's work and the response was "I don't understand a goddamn word he says, pass the wine."