If Fleming maintained correct use of an autoclave... If Spencer hadn't walked in front of that unshielded magnetron... If Goodyear had a proper hood over his stove...
Serendipity will still happen in labs if you wear safety glasses.
According to the physics we know the chance of the Higgs boson having the mass is does is about one in 10^30.
Only if you know the measure on the space of parameters for the Higgs. Which you don't.
The question isn't "is there SUSY or not?" That question cannot be answered, because you can always push the SUSY breaking scale up to a little higher than the energy of your collider. SUSY will be a part of quantum gravity for the foreseeable future, since String Theory is not consistent without it as far as anybody can tell.
The real question is: "Does SUSY make useful predictions for detecting physics beyond the Standard Model?" The answer to that seems to be tending very strongly toward "No."
but.... but... the market fixes everything! If consumers just vote with their wallets we do not need regulation in order to have dependable banks, right?
Seriously, you expect us to believe that you got tutored by Feynman in quantum mechanics for the double slit experiment, but that you can't figure out that the orientation of mirror reversal is due to the horizontal alignment of binocular vision (a trivial optics problem)? Bad troll.
So you think that if you close one eye and hold a book up to a mirror, you'll suddenly be able to read it?
The classic fallacy of Scientists is duality. Matter behaving as _both_ a wave AND particle is the best proof that:
One truth does not negate another truth
But to answer your question, Time is multi-dimensional. It depends on which level you are talking about...
From our human, biological perspective / perception time is linear (male) (to prevent insanity.)
The higher reality is that time flows in all directions (female) (non-linear) BUT one hasn't _experienced_ it all yet.
The Buddhists would say "There is only Now; the past, present and future are all Allusions" and they would partially be correct.
> "MAYBE THERE'S JUST ONE ELECTRON!" Feynman once shouted.
Indeed that is one possibility. That would explain the "Spooky Action From a Distance". It is the _same_ photon, just appearing in different phases at a different time/space.
That's the greatest thing about Feynman. He always kept an open mind. He was never a pseudo-skeptic. If he didn't know, he was motivated to suspend judgement until he knew more.
Modern science has become "Cargo Cult" thinking.
> because if there were significant amounts of antimatter in the Universe, we would expect there to be lots of 0.511 MeV gamma rays in the cosmic radiation but there is not.
First, the problem is we don't _know_ how much antimatter there is. We are making assumptions about 99.99999% of the universe based on less then %0.0000001 of what we can directly measure.
Second, how do you reckon that?
--
The question is not "Does extraterrestrial life exist?" but
"Why the hell do we look so similar??"
News in 2024.
The reason everybody is so up in arms is that the opiate is not mixed with acetominophen. The only purpose of putting acetominophen in an opiate painkiller is to make it so it will fry your liver if you take more of it than it was designed for. Basically, such drugs are designed to be deliberately fatal to addicts. So much for "do no harm".
Do you actually pay to use slashdot or are you complaining about a service you use freely that is no longer up to your high standards?
Well, I provide content by commenting, and I improve the quality of content by moderating. For nothing. Without people like me doing that, Slashdot ceases to exist.
Maybe it is time to head back to USENET, or maybe someone should make something functionally identical to USENET/NNTP except architected with anti-spam provisions and the fact that if a site gets known for uncontrolled spamming, other sites just won't forward that site's stuff.
I initially found the protest against annoying and juvenile, but I'm changing my mind. Slashdot is its contributors. Look what happens when they cease to contribute.
Firefox has gradually turned into a bloated, buggy piece of crap. I finally gave up, and started using Chrome instead. Yes, the Great Google is watching my every browsing move. But at least it works.
- A full pardon
- Two ounces of the finest Colorado weed
- A handjob from Katie Perry
- A Sunday Morning talk show on Al Jazeera
- A controlling owership stake in the National Review
From Google's point of view, they could easily disconnect from the electric grid, stop paying for police and fire protection, etc. etc. You could build a walled enclave for yourself totally disconnected from society. They'd probably save money by doing it.
This happens in the 3rd world all the time: the rich have generators, private security, cars with suspension for roads with potholes, private planes, private wells, sewers, whatever. The 3rd world rich have a standard of living not much different from the equivalent 1st world rich.
Mod parent insightful.
But it isn't Google's fault. It's the fault of generations of neglect of the common good by the American people. Google is doing this because the public transit that would support their enterprise doesn't exist. Want to change that? Don't demonize Google for running buses: Tax the wealthy more -- a lot more -- to fund things like basic infrastucture, medical care, public safety, and the rest. American's don't have to live in a country of walled enclaves like Brazil or India or South Africa, but we are choosing to head in precisely that direction, because way too many morons think that means "freedom".
Why the fuck anybody would have a problem with companies providing middle-class workers with traffic-reducing, environmentally friendly transport to work us utterly beyond me. But, oh please, successful people: lay off the victimhood schtick. It's silly and unbecoming.
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If Fleming maintained correct use of an autoclave... If Spencer hadn't walked in front of that unshielded magnetron... If Goodyear had a proper hood over his stove...
Serendipity will still happen in labs if you wear safety glasses.
According to the physics we know the chance of the Higgs boson having the mass is does is about one in 10^30.
Only if you know the measure on the space of parameters for the Higgs. Which you don't.
The question isn't "is there SUSY or not?" That question cannot be answered, because you can always push the SUSY breaking scale up to a little higher than the energy of your collider. SUSY will be a part of quantum gravity for the foreseeable future, since String Theory is not consistent without it as far as anybody can tell.
The real question is: "Does SUSY make useful predictions for detecting physics beyond the Standard Model?" The answer to that seems to be tending very strongly toward "No."
but.... but... the market fixes everything! If consumers just vote with their wallets we do not need regulation in order to have dependable banks, right?
Whoops. Wallet is now empty. No vote for you.
Somebody stole a bunch of tulip bulbs!
Seriously, you expect us to believe that you got tutored by Feynman in quantum mechanics for the double slit experiment, but that you can't figure out that the orientation of mirror reversal is due to the horizontal alignment of binocular vision (a trivial optics problem)? Bad troll.
So you think that if you close one eye and hold a book up to a mirror, you'll suddenly be able to read it?
I think you'd be surprised by just how much "religion" is actually just made up shit.
Let me take a stab at that: All of it?
> Does time go back and forth? I don't know.
Or it could be both :-)
The classic fallacy of Scientists is duality. Matter behaving as _both_ a wave AND particle is the best proof that:
One truth does not negate another truth
But to answer your question, Time is multi-dimensional. It depends on which level you are talking about ...
From our human, biological perspective / perception time is linear (male) (to prevent insanity.) The higher reality is that time flows in all directions (female) (non-linear) BUT one hasn't _experienced_ it all yet.
The Buddhists would say "There is only Now; the past, present and future are all Allusions" and they would partially be correct.
> "MAYBE THERE'S JUST ONE ELECTRON!" Feynman once shouted.
Indeed that is one possibility. That would explain the "Spooky Action From a Distance". It is the _same_ photon, just appearing in different phases at a different time/space.
That's the greatest thing about Feynman. He always kept an open mind. He was never a pseudo-skeptic. If he didn't know, he was motivated to suspend judgement until he knew more.
Modern science has become "Cargo Cult" thinking.
> because if there were significant amounts of antimatter in the Universe, we would expect there to be lots of 0.511 MeV gamma rays in the cosmic radiation but there is not.
First, the problem is we don't _know_ how much antimatter there is. We are making assumptions about 99.99999% of the universe based on less then %0.0000001 of what we can directly measure.
Second, how do you reckon that?
-- The question is not "Does extraterrestrial life exist?" but "Why the hell do we look so similar??" News in 2024.
Are you the Time Cube guy?
Uh...last post, anyone?
!tsop tsriF
Whoah. Are you even remotely aware of what is being done in cosmology these days?
Planck Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Square Kilometer Array
Ice Cube
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Euclid
Hardly "ideologically/branding driven pseudoscience". Who the hell modded you up?
The reason everybody is so up in arms is that the opiate is not mixed with acetominophen. The only purpose of putting acetominophen in an opiate painkiller is to make it so it will fry your liver if you take more of it than it was designed for. Basically, such drugs are designed to be deliberately fatal to addicts. So much for "do no harm".
Actually, the Obama administration has mandated open data for all federally supported research. Good news indeed.
Do you actually pay to use slashdot or are you complaining about a service you use freely that is no longer up to your high standards?
Well, I provide content by commenting, and I improve the quality of content by moderating. For nothing. Without people like me doing that, Slashdot ceases to exist.
The main thing we want is a site that doesn't look old and stale, because that will slowly drive readers and contributors away.
Driving readers and contributors away quickly is a much better strategy, huh?
Wait. There are little news blurbs?
Right above "FR1ST P0ST!"
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!
Maybe it is time to head back to USENET, or maybe someone should make something functionally identical to USENET/NNTP except architected with anti-spam provisions and the fact that if a site gets known for uncontrolled spamming, other sites just won't forward that site's stuff.
Sigh. I do miss Kibo and Ludwig Plutonium.
..the Beta wars.
I initially found the protest against annoying and juvenile, but I'm changing my mind. Slashdot is its contributors. Look what happens when they cease to contribute.
Power to the people, motherfuckers!
Firefox has gradually turned into a bloated, buggy piece of crap. I finally gave up, and started using Chrome instead. Yes, the Great Google is watching my every browsing move. But at least it works.
"Good artists borrow. Great artists steal."
Pablo Picasso
I don't really see how you could fill a whole class, or even an hour to teach how evolution works.
Please tell me you're kidding.
- A full pardon
- Two ounces of the finest Colorado weed
- A handjob from Katie Perry
- A Sunday Morning talk show on Al Jazeera
- A controlling owership stake in the National Review
That's what he should get.
From Google's point of view, they could easily disconnect from the electric grid, stop paying for police and fire protection, etc. etc. You could build a walled enclave for yourself totally disconnected from society. They'd probably save money by doing it.
This happens in the 3rd world all the time: the rich have generators, private security, cars with suspension for roads with potholes, private planes, private wells, sewers, whatever. The 3rd world rich have a standard of living not much different from the equivalent 1st world rich.
Mod parent insightful.
But it isn't Google's fault. It's the fault of generations of neglect of the common good by the American people. Google is doing this because the public transit that would support their enterprise doesn't exist. Want to change that? Don't demonize Google for running buses: Tax the wealthy more -- a lot more -- to fund things like basic infrastucture, medical care, public safety, and the rest. American's don't have to live in a country of walled enclaves like Brazil or India or South Africa, but we are choosing to head in precisely that direction, because way too many morons think that means "freedom".
Take 25 coins and 25 people. What's the most natural way of distributing the wealth?
Usual answer: given them one each. But swap any two people, and you've got the same distribution. There's only one configuration.
Now give all 25 coins to just one person. There are 25 possible configurations. This is a much more likely outcome.
Wow. You really don't understand entropy, do you?
Hint: If you select a random recipient for each coins, the highest entropy configuration is not for one recipient to get all the coins.
People riding the Google Bus are not the one percent. Hell, most likely not even the top five percent
Why the fuck anybody would have a problem with companies providing middle-class workers with traffic-reducing, environmentally friendly transport to work us utterly beyond me. But, oh please, successful people: lay off the victimhood schtick. It's silly and unbecoming.
the entire argument relies on AdS/CFT, which assumes the black holes are embedded in de Sitter space, which has a negative cosmological constant
Typo: it should be anti-de Sitter space.