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Landmark Calculation Clears the Way To Answering How Matter Is Formed
First time accepted submitter smazsyr writes "An international collaboration of scientists is reporting in landmark detail the decay process of a subatomic particle called a kaon – information that may help answer fundamental questions about how the universe began. The calculation in the study required 54 million processor hours on the IBM BlueGene/P supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, the equivalent of 281 days of computing with 8,000 processors. 'This calculation brings us closer to answering fundamental questions about how matter formed in the early universe and why we, and everything else we observe today, are made of matter and not anti-matter,' says a co-author of the paper."
Why does this matter?
Can I order a "Raktajino, Hot" from my wall yet?
how is mater formed
how universe get axpadned
They ran the calculation on one core. They needed the other 8191 to render the Aero desktop.
Have gnu, will travel.
42. 42 kaons. Ha, ha, ha!
Sir, have you considered that maybe the universe is just a simulation? And if that is the case, we might be able to hack the simulator. Really, in what type of universe is there an arbitrary speed for light? And who really believes quantum mechanics isn't some grad student's little experiment to see what would happen in a simulated universe with such a crazy system.
Isn't it obvious? The only sane answer is to destroy the universe. We must crash the system so that this arrogant grad student fails out of school and can't go on to make other arbitrary universe simulations.
And the answer is 42?
Kirk was misquoted. It was "KKAAAOONNN!!!!!"
How is this funny? Why would anyone mod this funny?
4,6 and 33.
"Honey, what's the matter?"
"You know!"
No, I don't. But maybe maybe a team of scientists using one of the most powerful computers on earth can figure what the heck is the matter with you.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.