Physics questions about the LHC.

[Jon Miller]

What ends up being useful isn't always clear.

Like anti-matter.

Which was first theoretical, then investigated for fundamental science reasons, and then turned out to be useful in cancer treatment and imaging.

JM

[Felch]

I propose double posting be renamed "Jon Millering."

[Felch]

JM is right, by the way. Real life doesn't come with a Civilopedia to tell you what new stuff your research will unlock.

[Docfeelgood]

Has he performed the experiment 50 million times to verify this, or is he just pulling a number out of his ass? How does he know it isn't 1:51,000,000 or 1:999,999,999,999,999?

IMHO
I think it was just pulled out of his ass.
I'm not worried because the scientist know what they are talking about and would never lie to us.

[KrazyHorse]

Unsurprisingly, this thread disappoints.

[giblets]

JM is right, by the way. Real life doesn't come with a Civilopedia to tell you what new stuff your research will unlock.

Sid Meier originally wanted to make the tech tree random in every game so you wouldn't have any idea what further advances would come from what you are currently researching.

[Docfeelgood]

Unsurprisingly, this thread disappoints.

I'm surprised and disappointed that you would not at least try.

[Hauldren Collider]

Unsurprisingly, this thread disappoints.

Okay, here's a perhaps more interesting question about the LHC:

How does the LHC detect particles resulting from high-energy collisions?

[regexcellent]

Unsurprisingly, this thread disappoints.

If it's unsurprising how is it disappointing?

[Felch]

Sid Meier originally wanted to make the tech tree random in every game so you wouldn't have any idea what further advances would come from what you are currently researching.

That would actually be ****ing awesome. Of course, it would be frustrating to get screwed over by the RNG, but Civ is full of that already.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Unsurprisingly, this thread disappoints.

Isn't surprise an integral part of disappointment as if some expectation was surprisingly unmet? How then can it be unsurprising?

Damn - Missed Regex point

[Dauphin]

Okay, here's a perhaps more interesting question about the LHC:

How does the LHC detect particles resulting from high-energy collisions?

Do you find cloud chambers interesting?

[Dauphin]

Martin Rees, a U.K. physicist, has put the odds of a CERN black hole at one in 50 million.

The odds are tending to one, in a fiscal sense.

[The Mad Monk]

Isn't surprise an integral part of disappointment as if some expectation was surprisingly unmet? How then can it be unsurprising?

Damn - Missed Regex point

Not if disappointment is conditional on hope of beating expectations.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Not if disappointment is conditional on hope of beating expectations.

I like your Morgenthau quote in your sig. Here's another: ""We have never begun to tax the people in this country the way they should be..... I don't pay what I should. People in my class don't. People who have it should pay."