Landmark Calculation Clears the Way To Answering How Matter Is Formed

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Landmark Calculation Clears the Way To Answering How Matter Is Formed

Posted by Unknown on Monday May 28, 2012 @02:11PM from the universal-decay dept.

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."

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Can someone please explain to me by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-28 14:23 · Score: 3, Funny

Why does this matter?
1. Re:Can someone please explain to me by InspectorGadget1964 · 2012-05-28 14:29 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Well, if there is no matter then certainly wouldn't matter as you wouldn't matter because there would be no matter to make someone like you ;-)
2. Re:Can someone please explain to me by Calos · 2012-05-28 15:30 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Biggest rock is best rock!
  Frankly, it seems obvious to me...
  
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3. Re:Can someone please explain to me by CheshireDragon · 2012-05-28 17:08 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Fortunately, nobody else pays any attention to your kind.
  Until they amass in large quantities of stupidity that cannot be ignored. I prefer to call them Christians...
  
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How is mater formed? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-28 14:31 · Score: 5, Funny

how is mater formed
how universe get axpadned
Re:Oh yeah? by PPH · 2012-05-28 14:31 · Score: 5, Funny

They ran the calculation on one core. They needed the other 8191 to render the Aero desktop.

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The answer is by Ukab+the+Great · 2012-05-28 14:36 · Score: 3, Funny

42. 42 kaons. Ha, ha, ha!
Re:Science by fatherjoecode · 2012-05-28 14:40 · Score: 5, Funny

And the answer is 42?
Star Trek Is Real! by axlr8or · 2012-05-28 14:53 · Score: 3, Funny

Kirk was misquoted. It was "KKAAAOONNN!!!!!"
Re:Oh yeah? by networkzombie · 2012-05-28 17:34 · Score: 5, Funny

How is this funny? Why would anyone mod this funny?
Re:This is the kind of story that belongs on /. by Belial6 · 2012-05-28 17:56 · Score: 4, Funny

4,6 and 33.