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Beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics
tanmay writes "As time moves on, the case for supersymmetry keeps getting stronger. Physicsweb is reporting about an experiment that measures the relation between the spin of the muon and its magnetic moment, called the g-factor. The latest experiment is described as the most significant deviation to date between experiment and theory in particle physics, thus offering the clearest hint so far of new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. We will know for sure if supersymmetry holds it's ground by 2007, when the Large Hadron Collider will commence operation."
This one makes no mention of Janet Jackson's breast.... er. oops.
How 'about that G-factor?
Of course, we could have learned this about 10 years ago if the U.S. had not revoked the funding for the superconducting supercollider. I was a physics student at the time and interested in particle physics, and it's sad to see that we are just now starting to recover from that decision.
Take a string and tie a slipknot. Then insert a loop of the string into the loop of the slipknot you just tied. Then repeat by inserting another loop into your new loop. Repeat this until you have a chain of about 80 loops.
2) superstring theory
Put a loop into the loop before the last loop you made. Then put a loop into both the loop before that and the current loop. Continue backwards until youcomplete another row. A smooth hook shaped stick makes this easier. Make 22 more rows for a total of 24. The dimensions ( 80x24 ) are pleasing to the eye.
3) supersymetry
Notice that the left side is the same as the right side, and the top half is the same as the bottom half. If you don't have a hamster in need of a blanket, pull the string until the whole thing unravels. What fun! Try it with the universe.
Eat at Joe's.
Except completely not.
I had but a simple dream, to destroy all humans.
Taco, can you spare some time to whip up a Slashdot clone so the poor physicists can have a place to post stories like this one?
quark dance that is.
Quark Dance!
Veramocor
we can learn what happened before 10^-17 seconds a.b.b. and what is realy happening on Planck scale. It is pleasant worrying about problems like these.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
That's right. There aren't 11 dimensions. There are 4 simultaneous 24 hour days in a single rotation of Earth. Are you educated stupid? You must be if you contradict me.
This isn't to say that the g-2 experiment is useless; only that we shouldn't get too excited about it yet. Once things pass 3 sigma then the scientists will start to pay attention. Until then, it will just around speculation. Oh yeah, and yes, I am a particle physicist. But I'm just a lowly theorist. The experimentalists working on g-2 are down the hall.
I'd like to believe in Supersymmetry, but where are all the Squarks? Where are the Sleptons? Where are the Photinos, Zinos, and Higgsinos? And more importantly, if we can detect Janet Jackson's left breast, then shouldn't we be able to see her right breast as well?
It all depends on if you have zoom and instant replay on your TV. Replay it enough times and a nerd would get a hardon over that small glimpse...
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
Sounds more like knitting to me...
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
We will know for sure if supersymmetry holds it's ground by 2007, when the Large Hadron Collider will commence operation.
We'll know for sure that supersymmetry holds it's own when we find an selectron. However, I find it odd that we have a standard modle full of particles, but yet have not found any of their sparticles. Is it that sparticles are beyond the range of todays accelerators or is it that they don't exist? The only thing for certain is that it will ensure employment for a few particle physicists.
Long live Schrodinger's cat...
Colliding hard-ons? Gaaaaaaay.....
I just want them to find out if there is anyway to prove without a doubt that it exists. Also a way to capture some of that matter and it's antiparticles that are supposedly popping in and out of existance everywhere around us.
I also want them to create a new form of matter and not another unstable form that only hangs around for a billionth of a second! I want some exotic forma of matter to be created that we can build stuff out of like cars, boats, planes, bridges etc....
They always make stuff in the lab that only lasts a few billionths of a second, wht not make some weird matter that will last for a while...
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
I don't think we should try to find out what the mass of the Higgs-boson particle is. Bad things tend to happen when you do that!!!
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
As we here at Brookhaven celebrate having found the value of the G-factor, we would like to enlist the help of Slashdot readers in a related problem, namely, finding the exact coordinates of the G-Spot.
Oops, wait, this is Slashdot....
I had a dream that they are gonna find intelligent beings inside of atoms, and that companies will start outsourcing to those beings, ruining yet more tech jobs. Stop the colliders before it is too late!
Maybe I should've cut down on Dr. Suess as a kid. That and those supersize spicy barritos result in some funky dreams.
Table-ized A.I.
Man you theorists have it easy! Imagine if you guys had to hit six sigma like the working world!
FYI To the lucky ones to have never had to deal with stats or TQM:
3 "Sigma" is ~70,000 screwups in 1,000,000 opportunities to screwup
6 "Sigma" is ~3.5 screwups per 1,000,000 opportunities to screwup.
Next week "Epsillon and Mu - It's all greek to me"
Actually it's crocheting..
Eat at Joe's.
Since you're obviously a genius beyond our comprehension, would you mind explaining why it is that String Theory is so absurd? How about offering a better explanation instead of throwing unfounded insults at another? I don't personally believe in M-Theory either but if you're going to throw out claims like this you had better be prepared to back them up with facts or at least theories. To declare that the most complicated and least-disproven unified theory ever thought up is myth or "random imagination" is naive on your part and only proves your ignorance. It is, in fact, this type of random imagination that keeps bringing us closer to the truth!
Q-factor is a commonly used term in bicycling, it means the width of a crankset from pedal eye to pedal eye, typically 130 mm - 140 mm. I think that its unsurprising that physicists are now able to measure G-factor. We have been able to measure Q-factor for a long time.
I think that physicists should work on inventing new termnology rather than borrowing it from established fields such as bicycling.