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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.
From the article:
"This experimental setup was so simple, that your grandmother could understand it."
As a 49 yo grandmother, feminist and designer of radar antennae for 20 years, I find that offensive. They wouldn't have said that about a grandfather.
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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
*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. ^^
'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!
I don't know why.
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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/
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 "