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Quantum Gravity Observed

Lawrence_Bird writes "AIP News is reporting the first observations of quantum gravitational states by researchers in Grenoble using a beam of ultra cold neutrons. This is an incredible observational achievement when you consider the energies involved - order of 1 pico electron volt (10^ -12eV). The full paper is in the 17 Jan Nature."

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  1. MOD PARENT UP!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do it!!

  2. go read the oracle unbreakable article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    make sure to view at -1. The first post has over 50 replies and 76 mod points used on it. It is an important, legit discussion of slashdot that the editors have censored. They modded the entire thread to -1. So much for freedom of speech.

    1. Re:go read the oracle unbreakable article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      No shit, here is the link:


      This thread


      Moderation Totals: Offtopic=33, Flamebait=1, Troll=1, Redundant=2, Insightful=8, Interesting=22, Informative=7, Overrated=2, Total=76.

    2. Re:go read the oracle unbreakable article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      There is 77 you dumb ass. Can't you even count?

  3. Quantum gravity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is that like when there's an amazingly successful thread, with lots of posts modded up, that al of a sudden gets bitchslpped to the level of page lengthening posts?

    1. Re:Quantum gravity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Kind of. The thread was in a super state with many moderation scores existing simultaneously, that is, until it was "observed" by an editor.

    2. Re:Quantum gravity by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Here ya go, moderators! Another Score:2 post for you to moderate down! If you're not actually going to use your points for something useful, I might as well have you pit them against my mighty karma!

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  4. Also observed by the microscope... by Nick+Smith · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Almost completely obscured by several quantum particles, French scientists measured another force believed to represent Enron chairman Ken Lay's sense of right or wrong.

    But they admitted they could be mistaken....

    1. Re:Also observed by the microscope... by LS · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Someone please moderate this as informative.

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  5. Re:dear cmdrtaco, gpl issue by ajs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please read the GPL. There's no clause that even comes close to what you're suggesting. You are always free to restrict distribution of your changes as long as that restriction is to not distribute.

    But, of course, I'm responding to a Troll and am way off topic. Oh well, karma comes and karma goes.

  6. huh? by pj2k · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    anyone notice how like all of the stories on slashdot at the moment were written by 4 or 5 people? take a look.

  7. Re:dear cmdrtaco, gpl issue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Karma will mostly go if you respond to any post mentioning the thread in the "oracle - unbreakable" article.

  8. Re:Someone Shit in my Oven! Help! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perhaps a taste test would help narrow down the list of suspects. If you taste Taco sauce in the feces, we know it was one of the /. janitors.

  9. MODERATORS ON CRACK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't know how Slashcode chooses moderators these days, but we apparently have a real crew of rocket scientists at the moment.

    Here's a fucking clue, mods: IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE TECHNICAL CONTENT OF A POST OR THE STORY IT'S ATTACHED TO, DON'T MODERATE.

    Fucking idiots.

  10. Who in the hell is waving that "OFFTOPIC" stick? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Turn off your computer, and jump off a bridge. You lack intellectual sentience.

  11. In other news by ahde · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Martin Luther King's birthday (observed)

  12. low hover survey camera by jeanicinq · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Soccer games internationally have new perspective. Nine by sixteen screen format.

  13. African Ham by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    An African Ham is commonly known as a watermelon.

  14. fags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you all suck dick

    1. Re:fags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Mod up, assholes!

  15. Please read by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pleaes read this thread. It's the first time I've seen an entire thread bitchslapped.
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid =26315&cid=2850 660

  16. Hah, I observed this a long time ago... by neonstz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...when I accidentaly dropped my Quantum Fireball down the stairs. Gravity was strong that day.

  17. Re:This is pretty amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think you should discover what it's like between a woman's thighs.

  18. Re:Quantum Gravity and Dark Energy by wildsurf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One other thing, I wonder if there is a such thing as a gravatic black hole. Something so powerfully repulsive that gravitons cannot escape...

    Jar Jar qualifies for this, I suppose. No wonder he wasn't in the latest Episode II trailer.

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  19. Re:hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You couldn't be closer to the truth. It's time this Linux threat is finally stopped. Each and every kernel maintainer choosed be hunted down and hanged. Each and every Linux user should be punished severely for this misdoing.

  20. Re:Hmmm.... by ShOOf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yes

  21. GR is dying by Erris · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    As anyone can see, the days of General Relativity are numbered. It's been comming ever since Niels Borh showed us he way. All the good physicists have moved to QM and the field has been much more productive than BSD^H^H^HGR. There are no reputable phyxicists studying GR and those students who do are just a lunatic fringe. There's no market for it, it's just dying and soon will be gone.

    It's a joke, I hope you are laughing.

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