Reminds me of my last job. I'm the only admin who understands Linux (problem #1) and I had some Ubuntu servers up and humming along nicely. While I was on vacation, apparently somebody decided that something needed to be done on the server. The other admin looks up the apt-get string to install a graphical environment, and voila! Full blown GUI on my nice streamlined servers wasting resources and broadening our attack surface. It was brilliant./vent
prior to a proton-proton collision that creates this Higgs-like particle, where was the particle?
To over-simplify, it didn't exist. It was created by the release of energy (which, as we all know, can be converted to matter). Things get slightly goofy at the quantum level and particles can just appear and disappear all the time.
I think it has to do with the equivalence between mass and energy, at the fundamental, quantum level.
Correct. To answer the original question, think about mass-energy equivalence (E=mc2). What the LHC did was smash protons together with enough energy to cause a Higgs boson to be created. The mass of the protons aren't really as important as the energy involved in the smashing. Think about it - what has a bigger impact, a semi-truck rear ending another semi-truck at 5mph or a Mazda Miata rear ending another Mazda Miata at 100mph? The point is that they needed to create enough energy to cause a Higgs to be created, which it turns out just so happens to take 125GeV.
See, they increased the energy on two protons beyond 125 GeV (where 125 GeV is the energy-equivalent of 125 protons, give or take).
I'm a bit confused by this part. A proton is made of two up quarks and a down quark. Using Wikipedia's top-end estimates of the mass of those three, that means a proton should have a mass of at most 11.9MeV which would make 125 protons weigh 1.4875GeV... nowhere near 125GeV. I'm not a physicist so I trust Mr. Organtini, but I can't figure out where this figure is coming from.
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.
I find it hard to realize that he wouldn't know the technical difficulties in replacing a dll while the system is running, and possible ways around this, and the current state of affairs.
Maybe he's complaining about the current state of affairs more than that he "wouldn't know the technical difficulties..."
It would be like me complaining about having to put gas in my car instead of water. It would be nice, but I know that that's not the reality.
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Since Australia enacted stricter gun control laws after a horrible mass shooting in 1996 there hasn't been one since:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/1224/Could-the-US-learn-from-Australia-s-gun-control-laws
So you tell us again this won't fix the problem. Go ahead.
Okay then, this won't fix the problem. Australia != America.
Reminds me of my last job. I'm the only admin who understands Linux (problem #1) and I had some Ubuntu servers up and humming along nicely. While I was on vacation, apparently somebody decided that something needed to be done on the server. The other admin looks up the apt-get string to install a graphical environment, and voila! Full blown GUI on my nice streamlined servers wasting resources and broadening our attack surface. It was brilliant. /vent
A fun thing is also that if you get sick on your vacation days, you'll get replacement vacation days.
Obligatory Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-02-21/
Please refer to subject.
You're obviously not a hunter. A game camera is what you're describing. They're camo motion activated cameras you mount to a tree. You can have it snap pictures to an SD card, some of them have night vision, etc. Cabelas has some examples: http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&N=0&fsch=true&Ntk=AllProducts&Ntt=game+camera&x=0&y=0&WTz_l=Header%3BSearch-All+Products
This FAQ from FermiLab on the Higgs may be of some use to many here to answer some of the more basic questions that seem to be emerging from this discussion. http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/03/06/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-higgs-boson/
prior to a proton-proton collision that creates this Higgs-like particle, where was the particle?
To over-simplify, it didn't exist. It was created by the release of energy (which, as we all know, can be converted to matter). Things get slightly goofy at the quantum level and particles can just appear and disappear all the time.
I think it has to do with the equivalence between mass and energy, at the fundamental, quantum level.
Correct. To answer the original question, think about mass-energy equivalence (E=mc2). What the LHC did was smash protons together with enough energy to cause a Higgs boson to be created. The mass of the protons aren't really as important as the energy involved in the smashing. Think about it - what has a bigger impact, a semi-truck rear ending another semi-truck at 5mph or a Mazda Miata rear ending another Mazda Miata at 100mph? The point is that they needed to create enough energy to cause a Higgs to be created, which it turns out just so happens to take 125GeV.
See, they increased the energy on two protons beyond 125 GeV (where 125 GeV is the energy-equivalent of 125 protons, give or take).
I'm a bit confused by this part. A proton is made of two up quarks and a down quark. Using Wikipedia's top-end estimates of the mass of those three, that means a proton should have a mass of at most 11.9MeV which would make 125 protons weigh 1.4875GeV... nowhere near 125GeV. I'm not a physicist so I trust Mr. Organtini, but I can't figure out where this figure is coming from.
I think the scary part is when he says,
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.Very telling...
Maybe he's complaining about the current state of affairs more than that he "wouldn't know the technical difficulties..."
It would be like me complaining about having to put gas in my car instead of water. It would be nice, but I know that that's not the reality.
Your nick is appropriate for this post.