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  • #31
    We have guards at JLab. I don't know what they do except bother people, and help people who got locked out of somewhere or something.

    JM
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    • #32
      The Tevatron was expected to find the Higgs. There is only a very narrow range of expected Higgs values that the LHC can get and the Tevatron can't (can't might not be a correct word here either).

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      • #33
        Just don't cross the streams, KH. That would be bad.

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        • #34
          Can you actually be physically present inside of the structure where this stuff goes on and live? KH gives the impression it's just a matter of keeping a bit of distance there

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          • #35
            Well, you would want to be pretty far from the radiation...

            JM
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            • #36
              Have they put animals into the streams yet and taken photos? I'd like to see that

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              • #37
                Not to mention how cold it would be.
                Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                • #38
                  Can one of you physics nerds explain to me WTF a hybrid star with a quark matter core is and how they are (supposedly) created? I know they're supposedly found in certain neutron stars but not much beyond that.
                  Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                  • #39
                    KH'll say you don't have the requisite knowledge to understand
                    You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Ecthy
                      Have they put animals into the streams yet and taken photos? I'd like to see that
                      You can't. Beam pipes are in vacuum
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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by KrazyHorse
                        (this post brought to you from the Meyrin CERN campus)

                        I'll be going down into the LHC tunnels tomorrow to look at the equipment. It won't make any sense to me, as I'm merely a theorist, but it ought to make for some nice pictures. I'll post them if anybody's interested.
                        Yes, please post some pictures.
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                        • #42
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                          Some of the interior shots are fuzzy. It was a low-light situation and the room is far too big for a flash to be effective.

                          We were not able to access the beam tunnel. We accessed the ATLAS detector cavern. The beams travel along the smallish tunnel, which opens up into these large detector chambers at the site of every experiment. Collisions happen at the center of each detector and nowhere else.
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                          • #43
                            I was talking to a guy from D0 (where the 180 GeV signal was found)

                            He agrees with my assessment as to its candidacy as SM Higgs, and again he also thought that there was a chance it could be background.

                            Irresponsible journalism
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                            • #44
                              Is there any other kind of science journalism?

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                              • #45
                                If anything, this looks like it might be a COMPLETELY new particle...


                                If so, would that possibly invalidate the Standard Model?
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