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COWS CRUCIAL IN THEORY OF EVERYTHING

 

In Scientific American or Physics Today or one of those propeller-head rags in the last month or so was described a cow-pie-in-the-sky plan for a particle accelerator, the Shagadelic MOOon Collider (ShMuC). ShMuC will generate huge numbers of MOOons in a Holstein-Holstein collier ring first, then take the resulting MOOons and accelerate them to BFeV energies (1 BFeV = one shagzillion electron volts, alternately described as about three firkins shy of a troy scruple or a couple crayons short of a full box) in oppositely circulating rings. The two beams of MOOons will be herded into colliding in a detector facility somewhere outside of Bovina, Texas. Funding for the project is being provided by selling off some boullion reserves, and sales of grandstand seats around the collision point, marketing it as "kinda like WWF but with cows on rocket sleds, kinda".

 

Most of the collision events will be uninteresting (to physicists, anyway) and result only in Vienna sausages and splattered steak and kidney pie, but a few are expected to form the elusive Piggs boson, which in some theories causes mass. (Mass what has never been elucidated.) Finding the Piggs would be a key step on ToE, the Theory of Everything, and the discovery of Piggs resulting from high-energy bovine collisions will disrupt kosher delicatessens everywhere.

 

A technical problem is that MOOons are quite unstable (which comes as no real surprise) so cooling the MOOons enough to get good collision rates cannot be done by standard techniques. No one knows how to keep MOOons within Health Department temperature guidelines while accelerating them up to near light speed. Several fast-food burger chains are reported to be interested in the technology once it is developed, however.

 

(Hey, it's April 1.)

 

(This also is reposted from item 149 of this thread.)

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