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Closing In On The Quark-Gluon Plasma
Martin writes "A series of presentations and a press conference was held today at Brookhaven National Laboratory about new
results from the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider. The latest run was finished only a few weeks
ago. The results are a new milestone in the search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a new
state of nuclear matter. The data were analyzed on large
Linux clusters at BNL and in Japan and France, with the biggest cluster of
about 1100 dual-CPU nodes located at the RHIC
Computing Facility. It's nice to see that results are out so soon
after the data were taken. There were previous stories about RHIC on /.,
here(1),
here(2)
and here(3)."
Could someone please add the word "beowolf" to the friggin' lameness filter?
*AT* BNL leads me to think of a place. *BY* BNL your joke might have been funny. Simply finding an anogram and substituting something else..doesn't cut it.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
"Your results appear to have been obtained using proprietary technology within the so-called Linux Unix operating system. Please cease and desist using SCO's Intellectual Property without obtaining a licence. All your Quark-Gluon Plasma are belong to us."
What will making quark gluon plasma tell us? Will we be able to make chickens without feathers or something?
Eat at Joe's.
nevermind.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
Now see, I get this - any day my new P4 is going to show up and I can finally get rid of my Athlon 770. When I bought it, I thought it was 770MHz, but I think 770 is the temp it runs at!
Now, that was a post.
Mod parent up, please.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
You speak as if it's fact when actually it's a theory. I guess I don't know how God created the Universe down to the molecule.
Just about all of evolutionary biology theories are linked to the human race being some sort of goo way back when and via some sort of radical chemical change we became what we are today.
Of course, my Slashdot user ID is follower_of_christ, so what am I going to obviously post?
I'm merely going to pose the question this way. If part of us was absolutely part of some star at some point, then you presume absolute truth exists (Or maybe you really meant, "maybe we were part of some star").
We use certain laws like infinity that rely on absolute truth to make the same presumption as you made about us being a part of a star. If we multiply 1.0e-(google) chance that life could evolve in such a manor by infinity, the answer is infinity. Well, in that case if there is a 1.0e-(google) to the (google)th power percent that God exists, then using the same equation you get the same result. Or again, maybe mathematical truth is relative to the person calculating it....
Now, that knowledge will never make me any money.
What you have sir is not knowledge; it's merely unproven evolutionary biology theory. I'll tell ya one thing though. All of us being parts of various stars billions of years ago and colliding into one another and forming the Slashdot community sounds as crazy to some as religion might sound to another. It's most likely because religion is not taught in public school where these theories are sold as absolute truth (which is where also, they are told absolute truth doesn't exist).
Ok... I'll go back to my church now..