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First LHC Data Hint At New Particle

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-no-black-holes dept.

Anonymous Dupeur writes "Only 12 hours after the start of operation of the Large Hardon Collider at an unprecedentedly high energy level, a discovery had been made. Today, in its press release, CERN disclosed the observation of a new class — paleoparticles. 'It's awful,' explains Alain Grand, still shocked by the discovery. 'It left horrible tracks inside the detector that made the physicists on duty at the time feel quite sick.' No wonder. The particle consists of two strange quarks and one top quark but no beauty or charm quark. The physicists have nicknamed it the 'neutrinosaurus.' This marks a first success of the — finally — started experiment."

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  1. Just Sad.. by mace9984 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is just sad...

    1. Re:Just Sad.. by Low+Ranked+Craig · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What will be really sad is when press organizations that don't know any better publish this as real news...

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  2. Re:ahh yes, the "Devil Particle" by physburn · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Funny April fool, but done, over at that scienfic blogging they had the LHC discovering the graviton. Paleo particles, dinosaur hadrons, thats funny. Not LOL but funny. I have to be Pedantic though, Top quarks don't live long enough to be bound to anything else.

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  3. Lighten up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    April Fool's is one of the only near-universally-celebrated, meaningful, capitalism-unencumbered holidays on this planet. It only requires you to have a sense of humor. For one day out of 365.25, everyone tells silly jokes. It's not about trolling and it's not about making people miserable. It's one of the only good things left in the world. I can't understand people who are just incapable of handling it.

    1. Re:Lighten up by Clandestine_Blaze · · Score: 3, Insightful

      THANK YOU.

      We're overwhelmed by bad news every day of the calendar year, so it's nice to have ONE DAY where you can just sit back and be entertained. You guys and gals can all go back to whining about Apple's newest review (slashvertisement), MS FUD articles, or correlationisnotcausation articles tomorrow.

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    2. Re:Lighten up by mooingyak · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The problem is that a good April Fool's joke can masquerade as something legit and will genuinely fool some people. And while a number of the articles that have been linked to from Slashdot might actually qualify individually, it diminishes it somewhat when your default expectation is a prank. It'd be better if there were one or two spoof stories hidden amongst a stream of legit stories.

      Slashdot is kind of like the kid who doesn't quite understand the idea that sometimes once == funny, twice == funnier, three times == less funny, four times == overkill, five times == annoying.

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    3. Re:Lighten up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Yes, yes, but it doesn't have the pink background AND I STILL WANT THAT DAMN PONY!