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Studies

by Michael Ho

Mon, Dec 12th 2011 5:00pm




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experiments, god particle, higgs boson, large hadron collider, physics, protons, science, speed of light


DailyDirt: Measurements That Make You Go Hmmmm...

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

Replicating experiments is an important part of science. If you can't repeat an experiment, then whatever you observed could just be a fluke. But even if measurements can be repeated reliably, it doesn't mean that they can be explained easily. Here are just a few examples of some weird measurements that physicists are still trying to explain.

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    But what happens if they hadn't found the God Particle?

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 12th, 2011 @ 7:04pm

    Looks like they should announce something soon about finding the Higgs boson, and I just guessing that if they "announced their announcement" that it's not going to be "nope, we didn't find it. We'll have to keep looking, folks."

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    Your link is broken

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 13th, 2011 @ 12:53am

    The second [url] link is broken (it is missing the http:// part).

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    Re: Your link is broken

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    A Guy (profile), Dec 13th, 2011 @ 1:27am

    works for me

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    Awesome date night

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    Pixelation, Dec 13th, 2011 @ 7:47am

    "Dr. Preskill speculates that the information doesn't really vanish: it may be displayed somehow on the surface of the black hole, as on a cosmic movie screen."

    Hey Honey, fire up the popcorn maker we're goin' out!

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    Hephaestus (profile), Dec 13th, 2011 @ 7:57am

    "Physicists expect to find the Higgs boson at around 120 to 125 GeV"

    In that range the universe would be unstable. Its got to be higher. Either that or the theories need to be reworked.

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    Re:

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    Michael Ho (profile), Dec 13th, 2011 @ 11:48am

    [citation needed], Hephaestus.... :P

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    neutrinos too fast

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    Jose_X, Dec 15th, 2011 @ 1:48pm

    When all is said and done, this will probably serve as a way to tune the instrumentation. The instruments were upgraded recently (2008) to enable this experiment, and there are many sources of possible errors, including things like software timing assumptions that may have gone under the radar.

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