Yes it can be run at lower energies, and at first, it will have to until the accelerator experts get a feel for how well the magnets perform. In the long run there is no point to running it at lower energies-- i.e., why spend more money to build a machine that does the same thing as the Tevatron?
No, there's no guarantee a *Standard Model* Higgs Boson (which is what this search is) even exists. We know some mechanism exists for the symmetry that's broken between the Electromagnetic and Weak forces, but that doesn't necessarily have to be in the form of a standard model Higgs.
Its not a matter of "some thinking"-- the backgrounds that swamp a Higgs signal for a low mass Higgs are simply more prevalent at the energies of the LHC. The LHC makes up for that by being able to accumulate much more data than the Tevatron in a shorter amount of time. Of course, up to probably early next year, we at the Tevatron are in a superior position in that any data is greater than the zero the LHC will have accumulated.
1) I'm assuming the members of the court have either not played God of War, not read the Odyssey, or both
2) I find the idea of considering one brief scene of polygonal breasts to be the most damaging aspect of God of War with regards to children... shocking, quite frankly.
Its interesting to note that the SSC would have been almost 3 times more powerful than the LHC will be. Had the SSC not been cancelled, whatever discoveries will be made at the LHC (discovery of the Higgs, etc.) would have certainly been made almost a decade ago instead of several years in the future.
4) Exits are numbered with the current mile marker value, and the mile marker value itself is the distance along the Interstate within that state. Working out time, distance, and fuel problems in your head become VERY simple. If I am at mile marker 20, and I need to take exit 140, and I am travelling at 60 MPH, then I have 2 hours of travel before my exit. Note that this wasn't always true - Florida and Georgia held out on sequential exit numbering for a long time - but as far as I know, everything is mile marked now.
New York still numbers exit numbers sequentially in most cases and California still doesn't have any exit numbers in most places.
Perhaps simply reading the title would give a hint as to why this is important (i.e., note the word "confirmed"). Experimental results aren't really useful unless its a result that can be reproduced. The MINOS result is simply the first confirmation of the earlier Super-K result.
that are the Dell 2005FPW and the Apple Cinema Display. The Cinema Display may not fall in the £300-400 price range they're talking about but here in the US, you can certainly get the Dell for less than $500.
For other Americans like myself who don't get to watch the show and are wondering just how they found enough people that stupid to fall for this, Wikipedia had some of the answers:
In order for the hoax to stand a realistic chance of succeeding, the Cadets would have to remain unaware of the true nature of the show, even given any production mistakes and implausible explanations.
As such, a strict set of criteria were applied to filter out inappropriate applicants:
Eliminating anyone who had ever served in the armed forces, or who already had a significant interest in space travel or science fiction.
Psychological tests used to single out the highly suggestible and those who would conform to groupthink
Physiological tests to determine claustrophobia, including being in restraining jackets and trapped in a full lift
Being asked to dance blindfolded, without music, and with others watching, to gauge inhibition levels
Asking the candidates to nominate a friend or relative they trusted implicitly, to make a vital and important decision for them. These friends or relatives were contacted, and fully let in on the hoax, and given the final say of whether or not the Cadet should be included
The intention was to obtain a group of Cadets who were highly gullible, conformist, and ignorant about the show's subject matter; and also ideally suited to appearing in a Reality TV show (e.g. uninhibited extroverts, "wacky personalities", or characters otherwise able to capture the public interest).
Off course, Sagan proceeded to sue Apple again over the code-name change to BHA (over libel this time). He again lost. Apple changed the codename again anyway, that time to LAW (Lawyers Are Wimps).
Speaking as someone who uses antimatter every day, I have to point out that at least now, antimatter is very difficult to make. We expend 100,000 protons (ones that have been accelerated to very high speeds) to make one anti-proton. They get "stored" in a large accelrator complex underground (much bigger and bulkier than a spacecraft). After about half a day of this, we produce about a hundred thousandth of a microgram of antiprotons (which we then smash the hell out of).
I am not a condensed matter physicist (I'm a high-energy physicist), but it seems like this is a way to demonstrate a supersymmetry (a symmetry between fermions and bosons) rather than a demonstration of a string theory. In experimental high-energy physics, its widely believed that supersymmetry will be proven or disproven conclusively within the next decade. String theory is an entirely different matter.
Not bummed out yet? Massive parallelism works well for people doing scientific computing, but for the average joe, it's useless. I don't care how fast a processor is
Speaking as a physicist who used 5 CPU years last week alone, just because it may not be "useful for the average joe" now, doesn't mean its not something worthwhile-- people like me will really be able to use dual-core chips (as the parent states) and will buy these things now.
Their proprietary formats are a de facto standard (except Massachusetts), so if you want to do business with people who use Windows (et al), you have little choice but to also use windows.
This really depends on who you ask. I, for example, am a particle physicist. Amongst my peers, written documents are exchanged in one of three formats: PDF, postscript or ASCII text. In fact, the last time I remember using MS Word was to write an english paper in college (at the time I wasn't experienced with LaTeX). Nearly all computing (number-crunching) in our field is done on Linux-based machines, and based on looking around during meetings and conferences, roughly a third of us use Macs as our personal laptops. While we may not make up a sizable fraction of the overall computer using population (which, I will concede, mostly uses windows), there are thousands of us, and nearly all of us can get by on a day-to-day basis without using a single Microsoft product. Basically, the number of Windows users is small enough that the rest of us can demand using non-proprietary formats from those people. I'm sure there are many other industries/professions in which this is possible.
One only has to look to the Betamax to find a superior home entertainment technology that lost partially because the porn industry embraced the competitor. (actually, IIRC, Sony refused to license the beta to porn).
If you mean did the Chinese have a working sundial before the western world was formed, thus getting points on the board long ago,...yes, I see a pattern.
Not to mention gunpowder, eyeglasses, paper, and a lot of other innovations modern society would not function without. In fact, China was doing quite well in the "technologically advanced civilizations of the planet" club until a Mongol hell-bent on revenge showed up and wiped a sizable fraction of the worlds population off the map.
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The new number is +-15 MeV including the LEP measurements. +-17 is just the Tevatron.
Yes it can be run at lower energies, and at first, it will have to until the accelerator experts get a feel for how well the magnets perform. In the long run there is no point to running it at lower energies-- i.e., why spend more money to build a machine that does the same thing as the Tevatron?
No, there's no guarantee a *Standard Model* Higgs Boson (which is what this search is) even exists. We know some mechanism exists for the symmetry that's broken between the Electromagnetic and Weak forces, but that doesn't necessarily have to be in the form of a standard model Higgs.
Its not a matter of "some thinking"-- the backgrounds that swamp a Higgs signal for a low mass Higgs are simply more prevalent at the energies of the LHC. The LHC makes up for that by being able to accumulate much more data than the Tevatron in a shorter amount of time. Of course, up to probably early next year, we at the Tevatron are in a superior position in that any data is greater than the zero the LHC will have accumulated.
1) I'm assuming the members of the court have either not played God of War, not read the Odyssey, or both
2) I find the idea of considering one brief scene of polygonal breasts to be the most damaging aspect of God of War with regards to children... shocking, quite frankly.
is, amusingly, this.
Its interesting to note that the SSC would have been almost 3 times more powerful than the LHC will be. Had the SSC not been cancelled, whatever discoveries will be made at the LHC (discovery of the Higgs, etc.) would have certainly been made almost a decade ago instead of several years in the future.
New York still numbers exit numbers sequentially in most cases and California still doesn't have any exit numbers in most places.
Well, it helps that the character (and the story) was written by an actual scientist.
Perhaps simply reading the title would give a hint as to why this is important (i.e., note the word "confirmed"). Experimental results aren't really useful unless its a result that can be reproduced. The MINOS result is simply the first confirmation of the earlier Super-K result.
that are the Dell 2005FPW and the Apple Cinema Display. The Cinema Display may not fall in the £300-400 price range they're talking about but here in the US, you can certainly get the Dell for less than $500.
...welcome our new adaptive supercomputer overlords.
...describing result here.
In order for the hoax to stand a realistic chance of succeeding, the Cadets would have to remain unaware of the true nature of the show, even given any production mistakes and implausible explanations. As such, a strict set of criteria were applied to filter out inappropriate applicants:
The intention was to obtain a group of Cadets who were highly gullible, conformist, and ignorant about the show's subject matter; and also ideally suited to appearing in a Reality TV show (e.g. uninhibited extroverts, "wacky personalities", or characters otherwise able to capture the public interest).
Off course, Sagan proceeded to sue Apple again over the code-name change to BHA (over libel this time). He again lost. Apple changed the codename again anyway, that time to LAW (Lawyers Are Wimps).
I wanted to add this.
Speaking as someone who uses antimatter every day, I have to point out that at least now, antimatter is very difficult to make. We expend 100,000 protons (ones that have been accelerated to very high speeds) to make one anti-proton. They get "stored" in a large accelrator complex underground (much bigger and bulkier than a spacecraft). After about half a day of this, we produce about a hundred thousandth of a microgram of antiprotons (which we then smash the hell out of).
However, Microsoft noted Acrylic would not currently save pixel-type data to formats other than its native XPR file type.
Being able to save as PDF is great and all, but it looks like this thing still has a ways to go before being useful.
You can RTFA, or read the actual paper here. (available as PS or PDF). Beware, a working understanding of general relativity may be required.
Any string theorists out there want to chime in?
Not bummed out yet? Massive parallelism works well for people doing scientific computing, but for the average joe, it's useless. I don't care how fast a processor is
Speaking as a physicist who used 5 CPU years last week alone, just because it may not be "useful for the average joe" now, doesn't mean its not something worthwhile-- people like me will really be able to use dual-core chips (as the parent states) and will buy these things now.
This really depends on who you ask. I, for example, am a particle physicist. Amongst my peers, written documents are exchanged in one of three formats: PDF, postscript or ASCII text. In fact, the last time I remember using MS Word was to write an english paper in college (at the time I wasn't experienced with LaTeX). Nearly all computing (number-crunching) in our field is done on Linux-based machines, and based on looking around during meetings and conferences, roughly a third of us use Macs as our personal laptops. While we may not make up a sizable fraction of the overall computer using population (which, I will concede, mostly uses windows), there are thousands of us, and nearly all of us can get by on a day-to-day basis without using a single Microsoft product. Basically, the number of Windows users is small enough that the rest of us can demand using non-proprietary formats from those people. I'm sure there are many other industries/professions in which this is possible.
That's not true at all! DEC and Alpha live on as part of Compa... oh wait, never mind.
One only has to look to the Betamax to find a superior home entertainment technology that lost partially because the porn industry embraced the competitor. (actually, IIRC, Sony refused to license the beta to porn).
Not to mention gunpowder, eyeglasses, paper, and a lot of other innovations modern society would not function without. In fact, China was doing quite well in the "technologically advanced civilizations of the planet" club until a Mongol hell-bent on revenge showed up and wiped a sizable fraction of the worlds population off the map.