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Quark-Gluon Plasma Observed At LHC
Canadian_Daemon writes "A phase of matter created moments after the Big Bang is thought to have been detected at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. 'Striking' evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians, at the facility near Geneva, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced Friday."
And so a first post is appropriate!
Go Canada!
Hahaha. Good one!
What a strange thing to say: "observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians"
Does this mean the Canadians aren't team players or they weren't researchers (were they just tourists?)
This Canadian wants to know!
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I'm glad the OP mentioned that Canadians had a hand in this. Otherwise I would have assumed they didn't.
A Ferengi with a Glue-on observed moments after the big bang?
Its like horrible geek porn. I must retreat to the relative artistic successes of the Star Wars Christmas Special.
Canadian observes quark-gluon plasma, then immediately apologizes.
I'm a canuck and would be happy to celebrate a discovery by my compatriots, but it doesn't make much sense to say the team that made this ion-shattering discovery 'included canadians' when it included a lot of other nationalities too.
From TFA:
Canadians make up more than 150 of the researchers involved in ATLAS.
From Wiki:
The project is led by Fabiola Gianotti and involves roughly 2,000 scientists and engineers at 165 institutions in 35 countries.
So.. how about we say 'Horray for people!' or something like that.
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So easy, even a Canadian can do it!
Well then, this makes the event all that more noteworthy, obviously.
What about my an idiot?
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
I have seen this quark-gluon plasma one other time. My, it has been a while. I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade, let alone create one. But there, at that point, we did it. At Black Mesa. We...unleashed...Gordon, you're alive! Thank God for that hazard suit. I'm afraid to move him and all our phones are out. Please get to the surface as soon as you can and let someone know we're stranded down here. You'll need me to access the retinal scanners. I'm sure the rest of the science team will gladly he$EOF
Why there's a red maple leaf there is beyond me.
I'm a Canadian and like to toot our own horn but this was done by an international consortium in Geneva.
C'mon guys. Get the story straight.
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They were expecting this observation... http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/ardlouis/dissipative/Schrcat.html and although many applications are quite feasible, am only hoping that it is not able to be used for ill purposes.
Please, sir, don't feed the trolls. He's pulling the "I'm a [PC offended party] and..." post to get people riled up. Don't feed the trolls.
That's the problem with generalisations. They are all stupid.
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Thanks, but it is actually an international effort with those of us in Canada working on ATLAS making up ~5% of the collaboration. For those with a more technical mind there is the actual paper which was accepted by PRL this morning (after being submitted yesterday!). To give you an idea of what the events actually look like you can go here. As you can see there are around 1,000 tracks in a typical event!
More than three thousand died in the Twin Tower collapse that occurred 2001-11-9, including Canadians.
Hundreds of thousands converged in South Africa for the World Cup opening ceremonies, including Canadians.
Overwhelming amounts of aid have poured in to Haiti from around the globe, including Canadians.
'Striking' evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians.
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It is so sad. It is a place of contrasts, the sally-fields-like desperation for acknowledgement against the smugness of not being Americans (even though nobody else can tell).
What, Canada Appreciation Day again? Call the WGA...
Soooo... is there anything significant about the evidence for a quark-gluon plasma, other than the Canadian "connection?"
all the Candian jokes are nice and all.. but this really was about trying to make people think CERN is the only thing going on in HEP or nuclear physics. Not so, and this is not a first as RHIC was there first. Glad to see CERN is catching up though.
Who knew Quark had a last name, or that Ferengi had blood plasma? Even more impressive, the LHC created Quark-Gluon Plasma (presumably water with suspended hydrocarbons and traces of his DNA) with a mere collision of some high energy particles.
I don't see why this is modded flamebait-- Offtopic would be more appropriate, since the main subject line really is true. Either both sexes are treated interchangeably in all circumstances, or they are not being treated equal. "Separate but equal" is nonsense in this respect. If there is a draft, it should apply to everyone, not just males-- etc.
Granted, it could have been put forward in a more polite fashion, but the basic gist of it is true. (And any arguments about women being physically weaker than men must come from people who have never met a determined woman before, nor seen what the average man looks like these days.) The really real problem is that women want to be (and be treated as) feminine. Standing up and "manning up" for equal treatment is seen as being "butch", rather than "practical", and as such they just don't do that. Instead, they whine and moan, but never actually do anything for it.
Hence the "I want my cake and eat it too-ism" snark.
The ORIGINAL feminists I have respect for- (The ones that dared to smoke cigars in public like men, wore trousers, cut off their hair, and all that jazz) But the "I can do anything a man can, but I dont want to!" crowd wearing miniskirts, prada, and are going for a boob job to play the hot-chick card, I don't have ANY respect for.
The hitting jab cuts straight through all the candy coating-- Men hit each other. Women hit each other. (It DOES happen.) But somehow, it is "unforgivably" wrong when a man hits a woman, but not when a woman hits a man. That's the problem the OP is getting at, and I agree. If we are going to treat the sexes as equals, then they should both be equally strikeable for strikeable offenses. (EG, did they hit you? If so, you should be justified to hit back, if for no other reason than to reinforce that you wont tolerate being hit. If you are weaker than them, hit them with a stick. If you are going to play the "Hitting is wrong period" card, then you should stick to those guns, and you should say that two men hitting each other, two women hitting each other, and a woman hitting a man are all EQUALLY as bad as a man hitting a woman is, and Not try to spin some yarn about how it is so much worse when a man hits a woman, because the woman is automatically some frail, flimsy thing. Something that may well not be true. Women are WAY more durable and stronger than western culture gives them credit for, and they should be proud of that.)
So, again, "off-topic", but not flamebait.
And your grandchild read the article? I didn't think so.
"This experimental setup was so simple, that your grandmother could understand it."
Two choices, pick one or both:
This experimental setup was so simple, even the president could understand it.
This experimental setup was so simple, even the former president could understand it.
Fixed that for em'.
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*sigh* Canadians......
"Someone get sally-fields out of the collider so we can get back to work."
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So when can we finally implement this jet in a warp engine?
Actually, the flag should be half "white cross on red background" and half "blue white red" since CERN is not *just* in Switzerland.
CERN is on the frontier between France and Switzerland, most of the (surface) buildings are in Switzerland while most of the tunnel (where the LHC actually is) is in France.
Or more to the point, since CERN is an international organisation there should be no specific country flag involved.
So, when will I be able to buy a Quark-Gluon Plasma TV?
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Flag should be a white cross on a red background
No, it shouldn't. CERN is an international organization, and while it's located on the French-Swiss border, it's neither part of France nor part of Switzerland, and not under the jurisdiction of either.
The list of authors is longer than the paper itself. And it's in alphabetical order. At least, there surely is no fight as to know who will be first author. ^^
This one needs a few -1 offtopics and a few more +1 interestings.
I've always found it weird that women are allowed and sometimes even encouraged to hit men, but the other way around would result in a quickly-won lawsuit of assault and battery. It's unfair, it's against the whole idea of feminism (wasn't it all about equality, at one point?), and it just makes me want to smack a bitch. (For certain values of bitch, I.E.: female superiority feminists)
There, I said it. Hit me.
'Striking' evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians, at the facility near Geneva...
There's three ways to interpret that.
1) Canadians were present during the observation.
2) The quark-gluon plasma said, "Hey! What'cha looking at buddy?".
or
3) Canadians have spread so far, they've now overrun the LHC, and our only chance to find particles that repel them is lost!
Genetically, on average, men are stronger than women. Therefore a man hitting a woman will likely, and on average, have more serious consequences than a woman hitting a man.
Also, as SF-fed geeks, we tend to live in an idealistic world where men and women just have a chromosomic and trivial biological differences. The reality is different with income/education differences, and social roles that still are very far from implementing equality.
The first thing a baby hears is "It is a girl !" or "It is a boy !". The first decision of its parents is to name it according to its gender and to begin raising it according to its social gender role. The situation is getting better, but think about how far we are from equality. As a man I often feel really insulted by some feminist extremists (I can't stand silliness, whatever the gender of the person spouting it) but I agree that there is a transitional period where women will need more protections and rights than men. Let's remember this is a transition period, that its reason is not in a superiority of women, and let's abandon them as soon as they are not necessary.
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I personally approach it from the personal experience I have had with my sister-- She used to be a power lifter in highschool, and could squat 300lb. (no, she was NOT a fatchick.)
The major difference was that she was NOT raised to be a "Pretty in pink" type woman, but instead to be a practical one. We grew up in an agricultural community, and having some brawn was practical. You just cant throw hay-bails without it. I am her full brother, and she was ALWAYS stronger than me.
It is my contention that most of the "women are weaker" issues comes from the "use it or lose it" type atrophy that comes from being pampered females up on the pedestal. We need more female garbage men, factory workers, etc. Without the sociological indoctrination for "learned helplessness", and without being treated like they CANT do things, women quickly learn that they CAN, and that they are NOT helpless. Women that grow up in such conditions seem to be more approximate to the average male in strength than those that do not, some even surpass men in strength. (My sister scared people in highschool.)
In short, we need to kill Barbie(tm). Ironically, this is something REAL feminists have been hammering at for years.
I don't know why.
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Grandfathers are rocket scientists, of course they can understand it.
Duh.
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Where does that bring us? An article in Nature or Science? My compliments.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2010/11/26/new-insight-into-primordial-universe-from-the-lhc/
What an idiot?
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Because the story uses the CBC as a source. Honestly, this could be a whole new way to include ourselves in the news: "Kuwait Not Banning DSLR Cameras After All, According to Canadians "
I think I love you weired_w. I don't know what this has to do with quark-gluon plasma but I'm a /.er and I'm already excited. Really, I am. Really.
Most people are mostly good most of the time.
But somehow, it is "unforgivably" wrong when a man hits a woman, but not when a woman hits a man. That's the problem the OP is getting at, and I agree. If we are going to treat the sexes as equals, then they should both be equally strikeable for strikeable offenses. (EG, did they hit you? If so, you should be justified to hit back
Justified perhaps, yes. But would it be the right thing to do?
Besides, search the web and find the many references to abused women, and almost zero references to abused men. It's a taboo in Western civilization.
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