Surely a good way to test reasonable assumptions and make them even more reasonable (or overturn them) is to check all the places the assumption tells you not to bother looking.
Why the LHC May Mean the End of Experimental Particle Physics
But Probably Won't, So Shut Up?
If there are no new particles found below about 2–3 TeV in energy—particles that the LHC should detect if they’re present—it’s a reasonable assumption that there might not be anything new to find until energy scales of 100,000,000 TeV or more.
So they're going to stop looking on the basis of a "reasonable assumption"? Not how science works, last time I checked.
Perhaps it should have been "Why the LHC may mean the next few years or even centuries of experimental particle physics might be a bit less exciting."
Could you not have just answered the question like a normal person instead of being a douchebag about it? Or were you worried you weren't going to feel superior to anyone today?
I wonder what sort of lesson this can give us beyond the one about pile of money thrown on it.
Nope, it's just that. Want a PVR with a 99.999% certainty of recording everything you ask it to over a period of ten years? You won't be able to afford one.
In a 2014 article in the Washington Post a picture of the special tools was included, and while this picture has was later removed it quickly spread. Security researchers have pointed out that it is now possible for anyone to make new master keys and open the locks without any sign of entry, and the locks can now be considered compromised.
The only time I've seen it done well was in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where a long-ago duplicated Riker was discovered living in an abandoned outpost, where the issues of who could and should claim what aspects of life were debated. Both Rikers were indeed individual people at that point even if they started out as one.
Farscape did a good (multi-episode) job of it too. I think there was still at least one consequence never quite cleared up at the end of the series from it, too.
Slashdot Mirror
And their batteries last a lot longer than two weeks.
Two supercars or several months' worth of frontline support for the families of fallen police officers?
How about both? The cars didn't cost the cops anything.
If you want one of these timepieces,
then you've got more money than sense and should give me the cash instead.
I'm not just saying that because it's $28,500. I'm also saying it because it's fugly and looks like it's made out of LEGO.
Hah!
It's because no-one can decide whether it's "Programmer Day", "Programmer's Day", or "Programmers Day".
intelligent life
...cos there's bugger all down here on Earth.
I do understand it, and I was joking. Yeesh.
Surely a good way to test reasonable assumptions and make them even more reasonable (or overturn them) is to check all the places the assumption tells you not to bother looking.
If I won a Nobel prize, I could probably afford to dine out on it for a few years without having to do any real work, too.
Yes? And? That doesn't actually answer anything.
Metaphor
You mean that automakers are allowing the police to stop people's vehicles at any time for any reason, remotely.
Yes, if by "remotely" you mean "by putting something in their way."
Otherwise, no.
And yet physics cannot explain consciousness
Define "explain." And how do you know it "cannot" explain it?
quantum mechanics seems to tell us that consciousness and reality are somehow linked
No, it doesn't.
Why the LHC May Mean the End of Experimental Particle Physics
But Probably Won't, So Shut Up?
If there are no new particles found below about 2–3 TeV in energy—particles that the LHC should detect if they’re present—it’s a reasonable assumption that there might not be anything new to find until energy scales of 100,000,000 TeV or more.
So they're going to stop looking on the basis of a "reasonable assumption"? Not how science works, last time I checked.
Perhaps it should have been "Why the LHC may mean the next few years or even centuries of experimental particle physics might be a bit less exciting."
You can burn hydrogen and oxygen to make water, then electrically reverse that process as many times as you want.
Yes, but you can't tell what shape a chunk of ice was before it was melted.
Like anyone who works at Slashdot would get that.
Could you not have just answered the question like a normal person instead of being a douchebag about it? Or were you worried you weren't going to feel superior to anyone today?
You can get 1 video frame off accuracy this way.
Why?
Also bear in mind you'll be 1 frame off sync for every 11 metres your clapper is from the camera...
I think this is why humans notice less when sound is delayed than when it is in advance - because that's the normal way of things.
Badoom Tsch
Professor of Knot Studies at Brandeis.
I dunno, that might turn out kinda disappointing after all.
Apparently the studio made them set the story around a mine to stop anyone getting confused by the title.
You'd better run, egg!
I wonder what sort of lesson this can give us beyond the one about pile of money thrown on it.
Nope, it's just that. Want a PVR with a 99.999% certainty of recording everything you ask it to over a period of ten years? You won't be able to afford one.
Well just hang on to the image in your head and don't look at the [truth]
say most religions.
You're bound to get dissapointed...
What's so disappointing? What were you hoping for? A crashed alien spaceship? Cthulhu?
I'm not disappointed in the slightest. This is awesome science.
In a 2014 article in the Washington Post a picture of the special tools was included, and while this picture has was later removed it quickly spread. Security researchers have pointed out that it is now possible for anyone to make new master keys and open the locks without any sign of entry, and the locks can now be considered compromised.
The only time I've seen it done well was in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where a long-ago duplicated Riker was discovered living in an abandoned outpost, where the issues of who could and should claim what aspects of life were debated. Both Rikers were indeed individual people at that point even if they started out as one.
Farscape did a good (multi-episode) job of it too. I think there was still at least one consequence never quite cleared up at the end of the series from it, too.