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Message 1283662 - Posted: 14 Sep 2012, 17:08:23 UTC - in response to Message 1283599.  

Any calculation with floating point numbers is an approximation, other way it would take an infinite time. There is always a cutoff.
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Message 1283825 - Posted: 14 Sep 2012, 23:22:41 UTC - in response to Message 1283688.  

Well Johnney here in Canada we have a lot more electrons than you do in Ireland.
We also don't have to work our electrons as hard as you do, so they get lots of rest
before they're called back into service.

We Canadians pride ourselves on using electrons with nothing but 100% orbitals.
Quality control is stringent.

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Nice one Guido! .....LOL

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Message 1283831 - Posted: 14 Sep 2012, 23:48:38 UTC

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Message 1283993 - Posted: 15 Sep 2012, 9:47:16 UTC - in response to Message 1283970.  

But if they exist in two places at the same time, will they ever get sent or received? Best sent recorded delivery I think!



They might be entangled. Prof.Zeilinger and his collaborators have established a teleportation over 143 km in the Canary Islands.
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Message 1291953 - Posted: 6 Oct 2012, 8:52:39 UTC

Speaking about Higgs Boson, I just read this =)

http://www.openculture.com/2012/10/higgs_boson_the_musical.html


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Message 1292087 - Posted: 6 Oct 2012, 16:27:30 UTC - in response to Message 1291997.  

Have they actually found this Higgs Boson or not?

ASPEN, Colo. — Signaling a likely end to one of the longest, most expensive searches in the history of science, physicists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a key to understanding why there is diversity and life in the universe.



I think so http://havewefoundthehiggsbosonyet.org/ :)

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Message 1292464 - Posted: 7 Oct 2012, 17:28:07 UTC

Let's wait for the Nobel prize announcement. Maybe I should get a minimal part of it, since I am running simulations of LHC proton-proton collisions in the Test4Theory@home BOINC project.
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Message 1293134 - Posted: 9 Oct 2012, 10:20:46 UTC
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Nobel prize to David Wineland of NIST and George Haroche of College de France for their study of single particles interaction. I am waiting for further explanations.
No Higgs boson prized then.
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Message 1293138 - Posted: 9 Oct 2012, 10:38:08 UTC - in response to Message 1293134.  
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Nobel prize to David Wineland of NIST and George Haroche of College de France for their study of single particles interaction. I am waiting for further explanations.
No Higgs boson prized then.
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Tullio,
Its always a few years before anyone gets a Nobel prize. I think they like to leave a time delay of a few years just to let the dust settle and make sure the results are solid.

Funny thing about the Higgs Boson. Who do you give the award to?
Does Peter Higgs get it? Its named after him, but its the work of thousands!

There are thousands of scientists working in CERN. To be honest, i don't think any one man should be given credit for it. The discovery is the work of thousands of people over 40 years. It would be unfair to credit one man or one single small group.

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Message 1293148 - Posted: 9 Oct 2012, 10:50:55 UTC - in response to Message 1293138.  
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The Nobel prize is given to no more than three people. There are cases when a person was left out because of this. I know at least three Italian scientists who deserved it and did not get it: Giuseppe Occhialini, Tullio Regge and Nicola Cabibbo.
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From what I could gather, Haroche and Wineland handled qubits, which are the basis of quantum cryptography and quantum computers.
I would have included Anton Zeilinger from Vienna, just not to be nationalistic.
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Message 1306701 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 7:33:49 UTC - in response to Message 1263568.  
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Update:


“Higgs” boson may not open door to exotic realms




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Message 1306730 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 11:56:09 UTC

At Kyoto the relator of the LHCb projects has said that in the LHC data there is no sign of neutralinos and other massive particles foreseen by the supersymmetry theory, also called SUSY. This has been confirmed by Roberto Battiston who was one of the organizers of a meeting at Geneva on space and physics.The other organizer was Sergio Bertolucci, scientific director of CERN.
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Message 1338154 - Posted: 14 Feb 2013, 18:43:58 UTC - in response to Message 1338074.  

Yes, but there is a huge amount of data to analyze. The LHC produced 600 million events (collisions) per second and each one of them can be analyzed. We at Test4Theory@home are helping in this process by producing simulated events to which the real data can be compared by CERN computers. This helps the analysis.
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Message 1338463 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 14:43:49 UTC - in response to Message 1256846.  

At the moment: I believe it is quantum loop gravity that is the most promising.
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Message 1338465 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 14:51:06 UTC - in response to Message 1338463.  

At the moment: I believe it is quantum loop gravity that is the most promising.

But LHC is not looking for gravitons. At most for the particles foreseen by supersymmetry (SUSY) which are lacking in today's data. I doubt very much that they exist.
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Message 1343359 - Posted: 6 Mar 2013, 4:31:53 UTC - in response to Message 1338463.  

At the moment: I believe it is quantum loop gravity that is the most promising.


"Bolderdash! Matter is clearly stringy."
Besides, quantum lukewarm gravity is better.
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Message 1343382 - Posted: 6 Mar 2013, 6:36:52 UTC

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Message 1343489 - Posted: 6 Mar 2013, 17:24:46 UTC

I just saw a video from La Thuile where Fabiola Gianotti and Guido Tonelli announce that the particle discovered by the LHC is a Higgs boson but maybe not perhaps the only Higgs boson. Higgs was present and was applauded.
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