Not so funny as my usual news (and not invented, as usual). Actually I think they are sad news for science...The second bigger and most powerful accelerator after CERN's LHC, the Tevatron of Fermilab, has officially declared that will close at the end of this year 2011:
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/Special_Edition011011.html
Someone could imagine that they just close because we already discovered the Higgs and because they are not powerful enough as to make sheep-sheep collisions as us. Some other could argue that they close because they realize that CERN people is just more handsome. But the truth is most probably just other: money (we are in crisis, remember??)
Anyway, just the accelerator will close. They have many other experiments running that look promising. Let's hope for the best for our colleagues!!
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Higgs will provide
ReplyDelete1. @Esteban: like
ReplyDelete2. I don't think this is bad for science, Tevatron people were trying to stop their colleagues from leaking - who wants to spend time at Tevatron which is passed its days now that there is increased capability? I'd say it'll be bad for science if that money isn't invested in other scientific projects.
3. HOLY GRACE! DO YOU MEAN SOME OF THE THINGS YOU'VE WRITTEN ABOUT WERE JUST INVENTED???
http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-bosons-for-americans.html
ReplyDeletehahahaha, bc world is gg to end in 2012, isn't it? ;))
ReplyDelete@Eleni: I love your link!! it's so fun!! I see I have a clon somewhere writing my same kind of bullshit!!! I like the law: Fermions are discovered in the US, whereas bosons are discovered in Europe. Interesting...
ReplyDelete@Valentina: I never thought about that... probably the end of the world in 2012 is related as everything is coordinated... I guess I will have to flirt with DG's wife to persuade him to create the black hole, as in the TV show sent by Fidel :D
Maybe they made an even more important discovery than expected: That the Boggs-Higgins does not really exist, and that they have to rethink the whole shebang.
ReplyDeleteAn amazing discovery. Because black holes do not dissipate to nothing unless their energy runs out. Oftentimes, large black holes just collapse between dimensions. Quazars are the other side of some black holes.
Da.