assault Posted July 13, 2022 Report Share Posted July 13, 2022 Wrong thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted July 13, 2022 Report Share Posted July 13, 2022 The latest issue of The Economist had a story about the Large Hadron Collider getting ready for its next run. Its last period of operation found the Higgs boson. Physicists hope that with greater power and improved instrumentation it can bring equally significant discoveries that perhaps resolve difficulties with the Standard Model of particle physics. Inconsistencies are piling up, especially with regards to the muon, and theoreticians don't know where to go from here. (Well, actually they have lots of theories with very pretty math, but no clue which are true.) The Standard Model also relies on mathematical hacks that seem arbitrary, but they make the numbers come out right. (Thinking of the famous cartoon where the theory on the blackboard includes the step, "And then a miracle happens.") Physicists hope that new data will suggest the reason behind the math jiggery-pokery. Some hint as to what dark matter is made of might be possible, too. The prediction of the Higgs boson was the high point for theoretical physics. Now the experimenters are firmly in charge again. The Universe will not give up its secrets to the exercise of pure reason. Dean Shomshak Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 13, 2022 Report Share Posted July 13, 2022 There are some pessimists grousing that they'll need to build the next-generation lepton (electron-electron and electron-positron) collider to get new physics rather than just colliding protons together (which what LHC is doing) or even protons and antiprotons. The trouble is: to do that, you're going to need an entirely new bunch of hardware to do that. You will probably have to build a new, gigantic linear accelerator ("linac"). The reason for that is physics. When you accelerate a charged particle, that makes radiation (light, radio waves, x-rays); and making the particle turn *is* acceleration. How much radiation depends on the kinetic energy of the particle, and the particle's rest mass, and the amount of acceleration. It turns out that the fractional energy loss (that is, what fraction of the kinetic energy of the particle gets lost from the particle and turned into radiation) is proportional to the particle mass raised to the minus 4th power. Electrons are about 1/2000 of the mass of a proton, so the radiation loss from making electrons run around a circular racetrack is MUCH larger than that suffered by making protons run around the same racetrack at comparable kinetic energy. Now, the acceleration is inversely proportional to the radius of curvature, so a bigger curvature would diminish the lateral acceleration and the associated energy loss, but it also means a bigger machine. The 8.5 km ring that's at CERN and now is the site of the LHC was the location of the LEP (which was an electron-positron collider), which ran from 1989 to 2000. With foreseeable magnet and accelerator technology, you're going to need a much larger ring, or settle for a "straight-line" accelerator where the radius of curvature approaches infinity. And that's going to be expensive, and those who remember the SSC fiasco in the US in the 1990s know that there are limits to what you can raise money for. Lord Liaden, DShomshak and Lawnmower Boy 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 13, 2022 Report Share Posted July 13, 2022 1 hour ago, DShomshak said: The Universe will not give up its secrets to the exercise of pure reason. I'm starting to think the Universe really doesn't like pure reason. DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 13, 2022 Report Share Posted July 13, 2022 Another study ties Alzheimer’s progression to bacteria in your mouth Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2022 Listerine cures Alzheimer's... got it. Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted July 13, 2022 Report Share Posted July 13, 2022 The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 14, 2022 Report Share Posted July 14, 2022 Man Accused Of Killing Friend Claims It Was To Stop Him From Summoning Sasquatch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2022 This is my vaccine. Been doing a clinical trial for them since before Pfizer got authorized. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/13/novavax-coronavirus-vaccine-fda-authorizes/ Cygnia and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 15, 2022 Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 Ivana Trump, Donald's first wife dies aged 73 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62172028 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 15, 2022 Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 2 hours ago, death tribble said: Ivanka Trump, Donald's first wife dies aged 73 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62172028 And cue the "Epstiened" tin hats... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 Ivana, no k. Don't get me excited like that. Lord Liaden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 15, 2022 Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 Corrected Meanwhile Mexican drugs lord Rafael Caro Quintero arrested in Mexico https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-62187714 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 18, 2022 Report Share Posted July 18, 2022 Ghana confirms first cases of deadly Marburg virus https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62202240 Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez marry https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62201888 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted July 18, 2022 Report Share Posted July 18, 2022 4 hours ago, death tribble said: Ghana confirms first cases of deadly Marburg virus https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62202240 Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez marry https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62201888 Coincidence? You decide! Lord Liaden, Cancer and Starlord 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted July 19, 2022 Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un learned to drive a car when he was 3 yrs old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 Of course he did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 19, 2022 Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 A Matchbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombrown803 Posted July 19, 2022 Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 No, it was a Hot Wheel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 19, 2022 Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 Aggressive mating killed ancient frogs The kind of news that should dominate the front page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 19, 2022 Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 8 minutes ago, Cancer said: Snu-snu killed ancient frogs The kind of news that should dominate the front page. Fixed Lawnmower Boy, Cancer and Logan D. Hurricanes 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 21, 2022 Report Share Posted July 21, 2022 New therapy for blood disease could cure it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62240061 Italian PM resigns after week of turmoil https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62249050 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 21, 2022 Report Share Posted July 21, 2022 Tributes paid to 2000AD and Batman comics writer Alan Grant assault and Logan D. Hurricanes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted July 21, 2022 Report Share Posted July 21, 2022 7 minutes ago, Cygnia said: Tributes paid to 2000AD and Batman comics writer Alan Grant His Batman stories were topnotch. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2022 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/21/michigan-woman-sues-man-date/10115610002/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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