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Hold your breath (via viXra log)

Posted in The Universe and Stuff with tags , , on July 16, 2011 by telescoper

Some of you might think this is just ridiculous hype, but I couldn’t possibly comment…

Hold your breath I don’t think there has ever been a moment quite like this in physics before. Within the next few months, weeks or even days we will learn something new about the universe that will change our thinking forever. I don’t mean something like a little CP asymmetry or a new observation of neutrino physics. These things are great but they just pose questions that we can’t answer yet. What we are about to learn is going to generate so many new ideas in … Read More

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A Discovery At the Tevatron! – Maybe (via Collider Blog)

Posted in The Universe and Stuff with tags , on April 13, 2011 by telescoper

I mentioned during a particle physics lecture today that sometimes big results grow from small statistical indications, but more often than not these turn out to be false detections. I wonder what this will turn out to be?

A Discovery At the Tevatron! - Maybe The CDF Collaboration released this plot today (arXiv:1104.0699, 6-April-2011): The blue peak at MJJ = 145 GeV is not predicted by the standard model, of course. The CDF paper is very clear and sober, and it is good that the collaboration reported these results. Let me outline the analysis in a few paragraphs. Th … Read More

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Lines on the non-Discovery of the Higgs Boson

Posted in Poetry, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , on July 14, 2010 by telescoper

In search of fame I spread around
A rumour that the Higgs was found;
But now it’s clear it wasn’t true,
My career has just gone down the loo.

 

(by Peter Coles, aged 47½)

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