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)."

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Science geared towards warfare

[[cx]]

The money comes from defence contractors looking for new cool ways to kill, maim, or destroy. Hopefully we get more positive scientific advancements rather than a destructive force witnessed for a millionth of a second during an event that only theoretically happened.

I am hoping for a planetary atmosphere renewer :)

But hey I think I just play too much MOO2.

[cx]
mod it up, ill fill your cup

Come on you guys!

[slowtonejoe75]

Without revealing any names, I will say that I am the son of the guy who was the project manager for Phenix. Phenix is one of the two big detectors at RHIC. I hear about the research going there on an almost daily basis.

I must say that the nature of ~ 80% of the posts here is completely misinformed crap! What I mean to say is that I am truly scared when I read the comments and know that Slashdot is supposed to be a haven for nerds and geeks. There are so many bogus things said in comments moderated above 1 that I can't address them all.

Good luck to you all...

P.S. Is it time for the real geeks and nerds here to abandon ship?

Re:How about we simply mod YOU down INSTEAD?

[karmawhoreaide]

Just nesting a post deep in the history of slashdot in hopes no one notices.