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New (p)article … and the view of an advocate vs a realist: A few weeks ago, famed physicist (and supersymmetry-advocate) John Ellis asked the question, "Where is Particle Physics going?" Unless experiments can generate new, unexpected results, the answer is likely to be "nowhere new; nowhere good" f...

Just a reminder that nuclear science also has its darkside.

… the US National Nuclear Security Administration announced the successful field test of the modernized gravity nuclear bomb in Nevada.
https://www.rt.com/usa/384786-nuclear-bomb-test-nevada/

mfb wrote:

dukwon wrote:This thread should be in viewforum.php?f=19

And that forum has a thread already. Posted nearly a week earlier than this thread in the wrong forum.

Yep, double-post, this one may be removed, my bad, I overlooked Draph's entry.

mfb wrote:"US gets a new leader" if New York gets one.

Beter would be the US has a new senator, can be the senator of NY.

Sure now I'm nitpicking.

If New York gets a new major, do you write "the US got a new president"? That's a bad example, because a mayor and a president are different words, an upgrade can happen for both the accelerator and the detector. See it like this, if NY get's at new skyscraper, you could write "the US gets a new sk...

This is not the Large Hadron Collider. It is the CMS experiment, … I don't see the problem, LHC is the general term for the project (for the public) of which CMS is a part of. Sure, if you want to nitpick … I guess that's what you have to do to keep yourself busy when there is no longer anything to...

"The upgrade, which has been compared to a heart transplant,
was made to the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment …"

http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-the-l ... al-upgrade

CharmQuark wrote:Hello

Let's keep it civilised guys

It sure ain't me who's ending civilisation.

Can you just go somewhere else if you don't want to contribute anything? Uh, you made your contribution, I expressed an opinion, isn't that how this thing works, chatting about science … anyone can join in. BTW I can understand that refining the measurement is an achievement, but on a scientific le...

The W electroweak gauge boson was discovered in 1983 at the CERN SPS collider. Although the properties of the W boson have been studied for more than 30 years, precise measurement of its mass remains a major challenge. So now over more than 30 years of doing 'research' they came up with these resul...

The electrocuted beast is on display.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... ory-museum

chelle: "he is dead" mfb: "uh, we are chatting with him right now" experts: “Physicists are excited when there’s something wrong with physics, and we’re in a situation now where there’s not a lot that’s wrong, … It’s a disheartening place for a physicist to be in.” Source: https://www.wired.com/201...

Kasuha wrote:To put it in real-world perspective …

It is nicely described in this article:

"Einstein and Feynman ushered me into grad school, reality ushered me out."

http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/what-d ... th-physics

mfb wrote:

What do I have to do?

Learn actual science.

Can confirm.

Read up on what's already been done.

This is not "particles and cosmic rays". The introduction is about the attempts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity, and the bump that appeared in 2015 could have been a graviton - a first experimental hint how to combine those two. That wouldn't have been just another particle, it wo...