I wonder whether this was supposed to be one of those "your mother" jokes or whether the poster really does not know the difference between "geologically" and "geographically"...
The LHC is its own prototype. Similar beam related incidents happened at Fermilab. It's shit but it happens, and they handled it dreadfully.
Thank you, that was exactly the point that I wanted to make. This weekend, Rolf Heuer still gave summer 2009 as the restarting date,
I do not understand why they aren't more open about the damage that was caused by the incident.
Ummmm, perhaps scientists don't like to make statements that they aren't reasonably sure of?
I was not talking about official statements that give a definite starting day, but about the way that the actual extent of the damage was communicated. I am actually part of the theoretical High Energy physics community and even I only received this information yesterday through word-of-mouth and the link to the slides. Some senior colleagues in our institute yesterday called this "Soviet Russian information policy"...
It probably depends very much on how many people on the plane you are actually sharing your bandwidth with
at the moment when you are trying to make the call. I had a voucher for internet access on a Lufthansa flight
between Europe and Japan in March and I was absolutly amazed, the latency was a bit longer than usual (but
still OK) and the voice quality was just like a call to a cell phone. I called a few friends and I had
some funny conversations ("You are WHERE ? 10000 metres over SIBERIA ?!")
Skype definitely makes inflight phone calls affordable, for the price of a minute on a traditional
satellite phone, you can use the internet service for almost an hour...
It is the combined operation of charge conjugation ("C", basically you replace
all particles with their antiparticles) and parity ("P", basically looking at
everything through a mirror). Electromagnetism, for example, is CP invariant,
you cannot tell whether you are looking at a movie of an electron flying left
or at a movie of a positron flying right that was put into the projector the
wrong way around (simply speaking). For a long time it was believed, that all
of physics should be CP invariant/conserving, it was quite a thing when in the
'60s people found out that CP could be violated. Belle and BaBar showed this
CP violation for the first time outside the Kaon system (where it was found
in the '60s).
"Is CP violated in strong interactions?"
I do not mean to split hairs, but although CP is certainly strongly
violated in B decays, it is the weak interaction that violates it,
not the strong interaction. QCD is CP conserving (even individually).
But then again, since you are an experimentalist...;-)
(I worked as a phenomenologist at Belle.)
as they don't - correct me if I'm wrong - actually have a specific word for meat
The Japanese word for meat is niku, and for specific types of meat
the name of the animal is added: gyu-niku is beef, tori-niku
is chicken,...
But you are right, the Japanese have a rather different attitude to meat, I have
lived there for two years and I have seen vegetarians order a pizza without meat
(explicitely) and being served one with bacon on it, because bacon is not really
meat. Bread is mostly prepared with animal fats rather than vegetable ones which gives vegetarians a very hard time...
in good old europe, most houses are made of bricks. yes, that clay stuff.
Are you trying to say you find pre-fab houses more
advanced than brick houses ?
I have lived in both and I have a very strong
preference...
Have you ever lived in a brick house ?
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I wonder whether this was supposed to be one of those "your mother" jokes or whether the poster really does not know the difference between "geologically" and "geographically"...
I already posted this back in November but people called me a troll for it ...
The LHC is its own prototype. Similar beam related incidents happened at Fermilab. It's shit but it happens, and they handled it dreadfully.
Thank you, that was exactly the point that I wanted to make. This weekend, Rolf Heuer still gave summer 2009 as the restarting date, I do not understand why they aren't more open about the damage that was caused by the incident.
Ummmm, perhaps scientists don't like to make statements that they aren't reasonably sure of?
I was not talking about official statements that give a definite starting day, but about the way that the actual extent of the damage was communicated. I am actually part of the theoretical High Energy physics community and even I only received this information yesterday through word-of-mouth and the link to the slides. Some senior colleagues in our institute yesterday called this "Soviet Russian information policy" ...
Skype definitely makes inflight phone calls affordable, for the price of a minute on a traditional satellite phone, you can use the internet service for almost an hour ...
It is the combined operation of charge conjugation ("C", basically you replace all particles with their antiparticles) and parity ("P", basically looking at everything through a mirror). Electromagnetism, for example, is CP invariant, you cannot tell whether you are looking at a movie of an electron flying left or at a movie of a positron flying right that was put into the projector the wrong way around (simply speaking). For a long time it was believed, that all of physics should be CP invariant/conserving, it was quite a thing when in the '60s people found out that CP could be violated. Belle and BaBar showed this CP violation for the first time outside the Kaon system (where it was found in the '60s).
"Is CP violated in strong interactions?" ... ;-)
(I worked as a phenomenologist at Belle.)
I do not mean to split hairs, but although CP is certainly strongly violated in B decays, it is the weak interaction that violates it, not the strong interaction. QCD is CP conserving (even individually). But then again, since you are an experimentalist
I can understand you very well ! ;-) ...
My native language is German and in Japan I lived in an English-speaking expat community
I am not sure as to how birds are not animals, but it is nice that we agree on 'niku' ...
The Japanese word for meat is niku, and for specific types of meat the name of the animal is added: gyu-niku is beef, tori-niku is chicken,
But you are right, the Japanese have a rather different attitude to meat, I have lived there for two years and I have seen vegetarians order a pizza without meat (explicitely) and being served one with bacon on it, because bacon is not really meat. Bread is mostly prepared with animal fats rather than vegetable ones which gives vegetarians a very hard time ...
Funny, this is exactly what they tried with Napster back in my days ...
In physics we call this a 4pi coverage (full solid angle) as opposed to 2pi=360deg.
Look more carefully, there is also 10beta1, but when I downloaded my copy, not all the mirrors had the 10beta1 yet.
I have lived in both and I have a very strong preference
Have you ever lived in a brick house ?