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Topic: Update: Big Bang experiment fails to end world
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500_Apples
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posted 10 September 2008 07:07 AM
This is amazing. The start of the LHC, it's the feel good story of 2008, and very possibly the only thing about 2008 which will be noted in history books in a thousand years. For good analysis, I highly recommend Peter Woit's blog: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ He's known for being a string theory skeptic, but in general he does good collecting quotes and going to a lot of conferences. [ 10 September 2008: Message edited by: 500_Apples ]
From: Montreal, Quebec | Registered: Jun 2006
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Pogo
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posted 10 September 2008 07:19 AM
I will check.Slaughterhouse Five review quote from the reviewer, not the book: quote: The death of all those innocent people could not be stopped, it was predetermined by some unknown force just as the destruction of the Universe, by a Tralfamadorian testing a new fuel, is also predetermined and unstoppable
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500_Apples
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posted 10 September 2008 07:22 AM
String theorist Lubos Motl on the prospects for seeing supersymmetry at the LHC: quote: Supersymmetry (SUSY) would also count as the first experimentally confirmed prediction of string theory that was historically not a postdiction.Its discovery would double the spectrum of elementary particles in a way that is not obvious, that was was qualitatively predicted for decades, and that some people still find unbelievable. It could be interpreted as a discovery of new, anticommuting dimensions of space. The discovery of supersymmetry would surely be considered as one of the most amazing discoveries of experimental science of all time. It sounds fantastic. It sounds too good to be true. Nevertheless, some of us are now predicting that the LHC is more likely to see SUSY than not. A figure "60%" has recently become popular as a description of our confidence that SUSY will be there. Of course, if you evaluate many arguments, it is extremely unlikely that you end up with a posterior probability that is so close to 50%. So what many of us actually expect may be a number close to 90% or higher. We just want to be modest and cautious so we artificially reduce the estimate to 60%. We mix our qualified opinions with the sociological priors. ;-) In this text, I want to explain why I think that supersymmetry is more likely to be found there than not.
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Tommy_Paine
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Babbler # 214
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posted 23 September 2008 12:58 PM
Actually, the helium leak is not an accident, it is a test result. By confirming Murphy's Law, this now paves the way to confirming that the fundamental building block that makes string vibrate in however many dimensions it vibrates in, and is the unified field that manifests itself things like magnetism, gravity, banana peels and suspended pianos and safes is, in fact, irony.Explains about everything you see and experience rather parsimoniously, doesn't it?
From: The Alley, Behind Montgomery's Tavern | Registered: Apr 2001
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