I don't have the decay chart in front of me, but I'm shure that the daugther isotope after emitting the alpha is excited, and will quickly de-excite via gamma emission.
And also different combinations of quarks has different energy, which begets different total mass - the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Take for example the proton or the neutron, where the mass of the elementary u/d quarks are only a couple of MeV each, while the whole composite particle clock in at almost 1000 GeV. This is due to energy trapped in the binding- and kinetic energy inside the protons and neutrons.
Additionally, you can also "gain" mass without adding or changing particles, by exiting the particles already there to a higher orbit, similarly to how you can exite the electrons in an atom to a higher state with a photon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleon#Nucleon_resonances
Additionally, if the results are real, they can be replicated. LHC collides particles not only in the heart of the CMS detector, but there is also (among others) the ATLAS detector. This detector has more or less the same goals as CMS, but is built and operated by different people using a different detector design (both on the level of individual electronic chips and sensors, and on overall design choices), as well as different and mostly independently written software.
So I guess someone with access to ATLAS data should now write up the analysis and see if they can find it too.
--- Physicist who did his master thesis with sensors for ATLAS tracker, now doing a PhD on accelerator cavities for the CLIC future high-energy electron-positron collider.
Well, with recent versions of LO, I noticed that it now ONLY gobbles a few GBs when loading a big animation - instead of a really really big number of GBs and throwing your machine[*] into swapping like in the "good old days of Windows 95" as it used to...
[*]: I've got 8 or 4 GB, depending on which machine - and I think that should actually be enough to run an office suite. It is enough to do some semi-heavy number crunching...
How much tungsten and germanium is there really available.
Oh, and then there is evolution. I'm quite shure our microbiotic overlords would be happy to accept a new food source with no competition in a few hundred thousand generations (not that long)...
I was quite shocked (and probably laughing) when I was served "Voss" water from my home country (Norway) in San Francisco. Its the same stuff you get from the tap somewhere along our south coast (quite some hours away from the town "Voss", but apparently thats a cooler name than where it really came from), stuffed into a nice bottle and sent halfway around the globe... At least it didn't have chlorine (not common/needed in Scandinavian tap water. Here in France... I'll take a Perrier, thanks.)
I hate it, not for being what it is, or for "threathening my superiority" - I hated it just for being different from the old versions.
Why? Today I use word approximately once per year, for filling out some form that has been created by the administration. This almost-never use frequency does not warrant learning a new type of interface, so I looked for a way to switch back to the old style which I know (like you could with winXP - switch back to the win2000 style of menus etc.). It didn't exist, and the forums I tried to ask on was full of trolls insisting in that it was better.
Maybe it is better, maybe not - I really don't care. It stands between me and what I need to do, and it refuses to move aside. So therefore, the only thing left was to hate it...
(It should probably be mentioned that this word-editing session ended with me unzipping the docx, editing the XML with EMACS, rezipping it and adding the extension. All that to fix a well-known bug where clicking the correct button in the UI doesn't change the lock status of the document. So I was quite fed up already...)
I don't know how you use LaTeX, but in my experience, you usually don't need to fool around with the sourcecode of the classes - and I've been using it for ~7 years (and quite a bit, too) - and OpenOffice some ~10 years, since version 1.0. One exception where you might be mixing presentation and content quite a bit is if you're designing a poster or a graphically complicated presentation - but then exact placement of figures/boxes/drawings/text usually matter a bit more than for the standard report or article.
TL;DR: If LaTeX is the model T, the rest are either horse-carts or trying to figure out the correct shape for the wheel.
Exactly - I'm a physicist doing quite a bit of number crunching, and know the languages you mention there fairly well (except maybe Fortran). And then you can add C++, and the various technologies used to make things work, like MPI, batch systems, and more. And, you know, the actual math and physics...
JavaScript and PHP? Never touched those. Learning some early version of HTML (ca. 1998) in grade school was the closest I got - but hey, you could make games in that too (using a LOT of static pages)!
Most humans are not basement-dwellers, but need social, physical interaction (i.e. chatting on facebook doesn't count it). But then this is slashdot, so it might be an overrepresentation of people here who actually doesn't need that...
Yeah, traffic flow in the US outside the interstate roads is anything but smooth - the roads are enourmous and still they manage to clog them completely, and you have to stop all the time to stop signs and trafic lights...
While bigger, roundabouts are vastly more efficient (up to a certain point where the flow becomes "turbulent") and also by far simpler to use (when you are used to them and people use their blinkers properly) than most other intersections - just time your entrance and speed into it, and your through in a second without any stopping.
As AC also answering you said, if you're moving your phone more than a few 10's of kilometers, you need to use GPS while connected to internet (WIFI is fine). It will download the new almanac, and then it works fine untill you move to an new place again.
I think special-purpose GPS units can get this from the satelites, the almanac is modulated onto the GPS signal (but a reeeaaaalllly sllloooooowwww speeeeedddd...)
If the device can be spied through or hacked into, it probably needs an internet connection. If it has an internet connection, it can get updates - at least my LG TV with internet video streaming does.
Quite annoying that when it did, it "tuned" into a "channel" saying "please wait, don't touch anything" indefinitively, long after it was actually finished. Eventually I "dared" to touch the remote and switch channels (fearing it was bricked anyway), to find that it was finished ~12 hours earlier...
I suppose that if this treatment is as effective as advertised, we will soon see just how powerful Big Pharma's influence is. There is no doubt that there will always be a "customer base" of cancer patients (unless this becomes some sort of vaccine, which that will NEVER be allowed to happen), but it's rather difficult to put a price tag on a single injection and then convince your insurance company that it is something they should cover. The latter challenge is what may prove to be the most difficult for many, and therefore everyone will continue to profit from the "traditional" million-dollar treatment "packages" of surgery and chemo.
There is far more money to be made treating diseases than curing them. This mantra has held true for a very long time, and I don't see this changing that trillion-dollar industry.
There are some forms of cancer (for example cervical cancer) which are caused by viruses - and which you can and do vaccinate against.
Here in Norway we mostly transfer the ammount to the friends account, which is quick and easy to do though internet banking.
If I have paied something moderately big (above ~100$) for a friend and he/she is reimbursing me, its actually kindof annoying if he/she comes with a big pile of cash which takes ages to use up - as cash is mostly used for small things like buying a beer or a soda machine (which anyhow only accept coins, but note that the first note is just below 10$, and the highest coin is 3-4$).
Slashdot is not one person, its a forum where people with often very different opinions are posting. Also, not everyone of these people are interested in the same stories, and I find it plausible that some groups sharing some opinions are more interested in certain stories than others.
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You know the mass of the orbiting bodys doesn't really matter, unless they are comparable in size?
I don't have the decay chart in front of me, but I'm shure that the daugther isotope after emitting the alpha is excited, and will quickly de-excite via gamma emission.
You rarely get alphas and betas without gammas.
If the session is end2end encrypted, getting access to the stream will just give you random bits.
Hadron therapy you mean?
And also different combinations of quarks has different energy, which begets different total mass - the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Take for example the proton or the neutron, where the mass of the elementary u/d quarks are only a couple of MeV each, while the whole composite particle clock in at almost 1000 GeV. This is due to energy trapped in the binding- and kinetic energy inside the protons and neutrons.
Additionally, you can also "gain" mass without adding or changing particles, by exiting the particles already there to a higher orbit, similarly to how you can exite the electrons in an atom to a higher state with a photon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleon#Nucleon_resonances
Additionally, if the results are real, they can be replicated. LHC collides particles not only in the heart of the CMS detector, but there is also (among others) the ATLAS detector. This detector has more or less the same goals as CMS, but is built and operated by different people using a different detector design (both on the level of individual electronic chips and sensors, and on overall design choices), as well as different and mostly independently written software.
So I guess someone with access to ATLAS data should now write up the analysis and see if they can find it too.
--- Physicist who did his master thesis with sensors for ATLAS tracker, now doing a PhD on accelerator cavities for the CLIC future high-energy electron-positron collider.
Well, with recent versions of LO, I noticed that it now ONLY gobbles a few GBs when loading a big animation - instead of a really really big number of GBs and throwing your machine[*] into swapping like in the "good old days of Windows 95" as it used to...
[*]: I've got 8 or 4 GB, depending on which machine - and I think that should actually be enough to run an office suite. It is enough to do some semi-heavy number crunching...
How much tungsten and germanium is there really available.
Oh, and then there is evolution. I'm quite shure our microbiotic overlords would be happy to accept a new food source with no competition in a few hundred thousand generations (not that long)...
My appliances only use positive and negative charges. Why do they bill me for this other stuff?
When you start using free quarks for power. Inside a neutron star.
I was quite shocked (and probably laughing) when I was served "Voss" water from my home country (Norway) in San Francisco. Its the same stuff you get from the tap somewhere along our south coast (quite some hours away from the town "Voss", but apparently thats a cooler name than where it really came from), stuffed into a nice bottle and sent halfway around the globe... At least it didn't have chlorine (not common/needed in Scandinavian tap water. Here in France... I'll take a Perrier, thanks.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voss_(water)
I hate it, not for being what it is, or for "threathening my superiority" - I hated it just for being different from the old versions.
Why? Today I use word approximately once per year, for filling out some form that has been created by the administration. This almost-never use frequency does not warrant learning a new type of interface, so I looked for a way to switch back to the old style which I know (like you could with winXP - switch back to the win2000 style of menus etc.). It didn't exist, and the forums I tried to ask on was full of trolls insisting in that it was better.
Maybe it is better, maybe not - I really don't care. It stands between me and what I need to do, and it refuses to move aside. So therefore, the only thing left was to hate it...
(It should probably be mentioned that this word-editing session ended with me unzipping the docx, editing the XML with EMACS, rezipping it and adding the extension. All that to fix a well-known bug where clicking the correct button in the UI doesn't change the lock status of the document. So I was quite fed up already...)
You never had to handle complex documents, do you?
Oh, and MS office's odt etc. functionality? Its a joke, it produces documents that are usable in either suite...
I don't know how you use LaTeX, but in my experience, you usually don't need to fool around with the sourcecode of the classes - and I've been using it for ~7 years (and quite a bit, too) - and OpenOffice some ~10 years, since version 1.0. One exception where you might be mixing presentation and content quite a bit is if you're designing a poster or a graphically complicated presentation - but then exact placement of figures/boxes/drawings/text usually matter a bit more than for the standard report or article.
TL;DR: If LaTeX is the model T, the rest are either horse-carts or trying to figure out the correct shape for the wheel.
Exactly - I'm a physicist doing quite a bit of number crunching, and know the languages you mention there fairly well (except maybe Fortran). And then you can add C++, and the various technologies used to make things work, like MPI, batch systems, and more. And, you know, the actual math and physics...
JavaScript and PHP? Never touched those. Learning some early version of HTML (ca. 1998) in grade school was the closest I got - but hey, you could make games in that too (using a LOT of static pages)!
Most humans are not basement-dwellers, but need social, physical interaction (i.e. chatting on facebook doesn't count it). But then this is slashdot, so it might be an overrepresentation of people here who actually doesn't need that...
Yeah, traffic flow in the US outside the interstate roads is anything but smooth - the roads are enourmous and still they manage to clog them completely, and you have to stop all the time to stop signs and trafic lights...
While bigger, roundabouts are vastly more efficient (up to a certain point where the flow becomes "turbulent") and also by far simpler to use (when you are used to them and people use their blinkers properly) than most other intersections - just time your entrance and speed into it, and your through in a second without any stopping.
Only if you're writing a philosophy (etc.) paper. Then its vitally important that you cite the prof's own "research".
As AC also answering you said, if you're moving your phone more than a few 10's of kilometers, you need to use GPS while connected to internet (WIFI is fine). It will download the new almanac, and then it works fine untill you move to an new place again.
I think special-purpose GPS units can get this from the satelites, the almanac is modulated onto the GPS signal (but a reeeaaaalllly sllloooooowwww speeeeedddd...)
... Unless the physical switch just thows an ACPI event which is caught by software, and it looks like a physical switch just for convenience...
If the device can be spied through or hacked into, it probably needs an internet connection. If it has an internet connection, it can get updates - at least my LG TV with internet video streaming does.
Quite annoying that when it did, it "tuned" into a "channel" saying "please wait, don't touch anything" indefinitively, long after it was actually finished. Eventually I "dared" to touch the remote and switch channels (fearing it was bricked anyway), to find that it was finished ~12 hours earlier...
*SNIP*
I suppose that if this treatment is as effective as advertised, we will soon see just how powerful Big Pharma's influence is. There is no doubt that there will always be a "customer base" of cancer patients (unless this becomes some sort of vaccine, which that will NEVER be allowed to happen), but it's rather difficult to put a price tag on a single injection and then convince your insurance company that it is something they should cover. The latter challenge is what may prove to be the most difficult for many, and therefore everyone will continue to profit from the "traditional" million-dollar treatment "packages" of surgery and chemo.
There is far more money to be made treating diseases than curing them. This mantra has held true for a very long time, and I don't see this changing that trillion-dollar industry.
There are some forms of cancer (for example cervical cancer) which are caused by viruses - and which you can and do vaccinate against.
Here in Norway we mostly transfer the ammount to the friends account, which is quick and easy to do though internet banking. If I have paied something moderately big (above ~100$) for a friend and he/she is reimbursing me, its actually kindof annoying if he/she comes with a big pile of cash which takes ages to use up - as cash is mostly used for small things like buying a beer or a soda machine (which anyhow only accept coins, but note that the first note is just below 10$, and the highest coin is 3-4$).
... and you can always background tasks.
Slashdot is not one person, its a forum where people with often very different opinions are posting. Also, not everyone of these people are interested in the same stories, and I find it plausible that some groups sharing some opinions are more interested in certain stories than others.
Aluminum is also very easily recycled.