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"Cascade B" Particle Discovered At Fermilab
pnotequalsnp writes to note that physicists at Fermilab have discovered a new heavy particle called the Cascade B. This is the first particle ever seen that is made up of quarks representing all three quark families. A team of 610 physicists from 88 institutions reported the discovery in a paper submitted to Physical Review Letters last week. This must be the discovery that triggered rumors that the Higgs had been found.
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ought to be enough for anybody.
I'm happy with the Physidore 64.
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In the test chamber!
physicists at Fermilab have discovered a new heavy particle called the Cascade B.
Splendid! Now all I have to do is feed this into our generators, reverse the polarity of our schields, and our enemies are history. Muahahahah!
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Wow, now if only we can get 610 climatologists to believe in this particle, its existence will be confirmed.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
I'm happy with the Physidore 64.
Physicists often have many quarks abouts them.
That sounds like an awesome pick-up line. Mind if I use it some time?
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"It's turtles... all the way down."
Seriously though, they managed to get the author information to fit on three pages. Here's the preprint. Usually it's bad when your paper has 10 times as many authors as references, but in this case I guess one can make an exception.
1. Data uses some big word for particle of the week that nobody's heard of
2. Someone says, "What?"
3. Data repeats the word and proceeds to explain it
4. Nerds everywhere nod in mystifed agreement with the cool scientific complexity of the future, and
5. This weeks show is a success.
From what I understand, Cascade B was discovered when a beam of high energy particles was directed at a plate with dried spaghetti crusted on it. The scientists found that the Cascade B removed the dried on food and left no water spots. Further research is needed to determine if Cascade B can be adapted for use in existing dishwashers.
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5) Higgs Profit!
I am pretty sure the scientists at Black Mesa were discussing a danger of "resonance cascade" just before the tests with teir anomalous materials caused the dimensional outbreak... So we better leave this Cascade B stuff alone. The Freeman recovered us from the Cascade A, but we might not be so lucky this time. And what exactly caused the alternative future events in City 17?
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I read that as "labia size". Certainly won't be many physicists needing to measure that.
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We have here an article about physics that uses the word cascade. They better have Gordon Freeman on this team, I'm betting none of the other scientists can swing a crowbar worth a damn.
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I hate to interrupt your conversation with yourself, but could you get to the point, please?
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A fraction of a second after this paper was published, it split into an administrative form called a WC329 and a smaller, 108-author paper entitled "Reconstructing evidence of the strange-b-baryon". The WC329 then split into a pair of grant proposals, cousins of ordinary funding requests. "Reconstructing evidence of the strange-b-baryon" then emitted a Ph.D. thesis and became a 23-author paper which was nearly published before it decayed into another Ph.D thesis and an ordinary 4-author paper.
Researchers at arxiv were able to reconstruct the form of the original paper by analyzing hundreds of thousands of "personal communicaion" and "in press" citations by physicists distributed around the field.