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The Pioneer Anomaly & Other Breaking Physics News

Posted by kdawson on from the explaining-the-unseen dept.

David Harris, editor-in-chief at Symmetrymagazine.org (a joint publication of Fermilab and SLAC), sends us to his blog covering the American Physical Society meeting now going on in St. Louis. Among the breaking physics news relating to topics we have discussed in the past: results that explain about 1/3 of the Pioneer anomaly by differential heat flow in the spacecraft; an analysis of the Fermilab Tevatron's chances of spotting the Higgs "God particle"; and a hint that an Italian team has replicated their results from the year 2000 pointing to a detection of dark matter.

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  1. Re:Sloppy editing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    So some of the briliant, insightful comments by my fellow shashdotters may get buried.

    On the other hand, we may get somebody posting a fantastic Theory of Everything that shows that the other two-thirds of the reason why Pioneer is off-course is because it is being bombarded with Higgs particles while bumping into dark matter.

    But yes, I suppose that your prediction of stupid comments is also possible. It's 50/50 really.

  2. Re:Before LHC though? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 1, Funny

    and so far we are not seeing any excess of events there, but in fact somewhat fewer events than expected.

    So you are seeing Anti-Higgs? :-)
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  3. Re:Rumor/conjector by evil+agent · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know right? And what about that sensationalist headline: "Breaking Physics News"??? If they had actually broken physics, I probably would have heard it on the news...

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  4. Re:You must be new here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    buried under senseless meme-tossing

    In soviet russia, memes toss you!

  5. Breaking Physics News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    hey baby, wanna see my large hardon collider? I'll make you see the God particle.

  6. Re:Rumor/conjector by HiggsBison · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read the article on Higgs, and it is entirely conjecture based on specified rumor after rumor. Is this TMZ.com?

    Rumors? About me? *sigh* I'm always the last to hear of them.

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  7. Re:You must be new here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Korea, only old tossers use memes!

  8. Re:You must be new here. by techno-vampire · · Score: 1, Funny

    Think of a Beowolf cluster of old memes, naked and covered with hot grits!

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  9. Re:Sloppy editing by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 3, Funny

    Electric universe is stupid singularity evil. 4 Day Time Cube disproves 1 Day Electric Universe.

    Electric Universe is as evil as God singularity evil.

    I have $10,000.000 that I will wager that Cubicism transcends and disproves Electric Universism.

  10. Something doesn't fit...like.... by 3seas · · Score: 2, Funny

    ....the god particle????

    Is god that small?

  11. Re:Sloppy editing by traveller.ct · · Score: 2, Funny

    IIRC, the answer to the Theory of Everything is 42, no?

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  12. Re:Rumor/conjector by dintech · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's just the creationists. Everyone else is fine with it.