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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. April Fools! by haggus71 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Like the thing is gonna make such a fast discovery...

  2. Re:ahh yes, the "Devil Particle" by tepples · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to Negentropism, the devil is entropy.

  3. Re:Just Sad.. by John+Hasler · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, it is. When are those idiots going to realize that the whole "quark" thing was an April fool's joke?

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  4. Re:Lighten up by biryokumaru · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In astronomy, the Julian year is a unit of time, defined as 365.25 days of 86,400 SI seconds each.

    - Wikipedia

    Interesting.

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  5. Re:Pics or it didn't happen. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Wait until they engineer the five-assed Quark!