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by Bornerdogge
Mon May 17, 2010 4:41 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: What Religious belief are you?
Replies: 74
Views: 83462

Re: What Religious belief are you?

These are all interesting thoughts, but don't you think Occam's razor would suggest the world we "see" is "real" and not some kind of simulation? Of course our perception of the world is in some way altered by our human form (visible light, size, etc.), but science is there to question parts of the ...
by Bornerdogge
Sun May 16, 2010 2:14 pm
Forum: New Users Start Here
Topic: hi!
Replies: 8
Views: 11281

Re: hi!

mrgumby wrote:I think CERN has a rule that their staff can't participate in chat and forum stuff. So while we may have our suspicions, we shouldn't really even ask anyone. Sort of like the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy in the US military. :)
Is there any particular reason for that?
by Bornerdogge
Sun May 16, 2010 10:14 am
Forum: Off topic
Topic: What Religious belief are you?
Replies: 74
Views: 83462

Re: What Religious belief are you?

Hmm... There hasn't been observational data, yes, but I personally consider NDE witnesses as enough observational data. nead death experiences are now very well understood and remarkably explained by neuroscientists and neurochemists... If I had more time I could give you many links to studies or p...
by Bornerdogge
Sat May 15, 2010 10:00 pm
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: Current Events Discussion
Replies: 512
Views: 607857

Re: Current Events Discussion

Interesting, although they run with doubled event rate, CMS stores 5 times less events than before (10% now, 50% last weekend)... "Better" events I guess?
by Bornerdogge
Sat May 15, 2010 2:09 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: What Religious belief are you?
Replies: 74
Views: 83462

Re: What Religious belief are you?

I understand your point about the influence of religion, but I don't fully agree when you say "we are slowly drifting away". This could be true for societies, but I think many individuals, whose parents were atheists, who got a non-religious education, are quite free from that kind of influence (not...
by Bornerdogge
Sat May 15, 2010 12:12 pm
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: Current Events Discussion
Replies: 512
Views: 607857

Re: Current Events Discussion

6 bunches/beam and ramping! According to what PhilG said, we should see a nice luminosity increase in this fill!
by Bornerdogge
Sat May 15, 2010 10:17 am
Forum: New Users Start Here
Topic: Hello from Poland
Replies: 10
Views: 14067

Re: Hello from Poland

Welcome among us! Good place to practice your English by the way ;)
by Bornerdogge
Sat May 15, 2010 10:13 am
Forum: Off topic
Topic: What Religious belief are you?
Replies: 74
Views: 83462

Re: What Religious belief are you?

Science is provable. Big mistake! Science proves nothing... It can only disprove! All scientists can do is build up hypothesises, and look how well they match with observation. If they match, we can move on. If they don't match, the hypothesis is wrong or needs to be refined... And we can never be ...
by Bornerdogge
Fri May 14, 2010 1:13 pm
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: Current Events Discussion
Replies: 512
Views: 607857

Re: Current Events Discussion

However, I see a 3,5x10^28 luminosity right now in CMS... That's 3 times more than the previous record, isn't it??
by Bornerdogge
Fri May 14, 2010 10:40 am
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: Current Events Discussion
Replies: 512
Views: 607857

Re: Current Events Discussion

new step today: 4 bunches of 2e10 protons! They're squeezing right now; I'm curious to see the luminosity increase...
by Bornerdogge
Wed May 12, 2010 8:45 pm
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: Current Events Discussion
Replies: 512
Views: 607857

Re: Current Events Discussion

Yeah but there's not much on it...

It'd be nice if the guys from cms wrote some kind of explanation page about cms tv... Maybe I could ask at my university (they worked on the tracker...)
by Bornerdogge
Tue May 11, 2010 8:24 pm
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: Current Events Discussion
Replies: 512
Views: 607857

Re: Current Events Discussion

just right there: http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cmscc/cmstv/cmstv ... frames=yes

but nothing's expected till tomorrow evening I think...
by Bornerdogge
Sun May 09, 2010 8:30 am
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: Current Events Discussion
Replies: 512
Views: 607857

Re: Current Events Discussion

just some bug with the displays...

good run last night! nearly 1e8 events stored by cms, with a collision rate of 4khz, and going on!
by Bornerdogge
Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:57 am
Forum: Off topic
Topic: What Religious belief are you?
Replies: 74
Views: 83462

Re: What Religious belief are you?

Personnaly I'm a convinced atheist. I think there's simply no "need" for a deity of any kind in this world... Educated humans are (or should) be intelligent enough to be able to solve their problems alone (or with the help of others, of course) or to answer questions like "where do we come from"... ...