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But it is not a coincidence. Light — the EM field waves — propagates at causality speed because the EM field respects a particular property of the universe, the so-called gauge sym…

It’s exactly as in Mario Kart 64! Remember, heavy characters have the higher top speed, but light characters have the higher acceleration !

If I recall correctly, one of the first iterations of the prototype Playstation was exactly this. The original Playstation started as a collaboration between Nintendo and Sony.

A small nitpick: yes, we only needed 1 LHC to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson, BUT we made sure to have two experiments (ATLAS and CMS) looking for it. As far as I know, e…

This is a common hard-libertarian talking point. Consider point 13.6 of Scott Alexander's (Slate Star Codex) Non-Libertarian FAQ: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-n…

They give a 30-day free trial, it seems (last item in the 5-reasons list): "Triplicate has no demo version, but I do offer a 30-day return option: if the fonts aren’t your style, y…

"CERN found Higgs - which was proposed decades before CERN was built." ---> This is factually incorrect. * CERN: founded 1954, as a lab for nuclear physics * PRL electroweak symmet…

If people were dying in troves of a disease (...) every effort would be put on saving them, right? How come some deaths are considered "fine", but others aren't? No. Just No. Let l…

Disclaimer: I am Brazilian and a raving anti-Bolsonaro protester. If we follow that line of thought, we will always end up at the following conundrum: the planet cannot support the…

Experiments at CERN use it. ATLAS has clocked 260k meetings, whilst CMS had around 130k.

In Brazil, there is an official residence for the Pres. and their family, but they could choose to live in some other official building. Pres. Collor (1991--1992) lived in "Casa da…

Even if they cannot get all the data back, I suppose they could do a preliminary analysis onboard and decide what to send back. It is, in a very broad sense, the same problem we ha…

As a matter of fact, this (merchants giving a discount for cash transactions) used to be illegal in Brazil. It recently became legal, but I haven't seen much evidence of changes.

At least in my field (high energy physics in the LHC), null findings are routinely published. Everybody who is searching for physics beyond the standard model publishes their null …

But what does "measuring more directly anyway" mean if you're trying to measure something that may or may not exist? For instance, in searches for new phenomena in high-energy phys…

Quantum mechanics is not based on special relativity at all. In fact, you can show that you can write Hamilton-Jacobi's equation (purely Classical Mechanics) as a limiting case of …

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Doctors will also see you after the apppointed time.

That is not correct. * Italy won in 1934 and 1938 * Brazil won in 1958 and 1962

CMS physicist here! As our ATLAS colleagues, we also use boosted decision trees extensively in our analysis, as well as the so-called Matrix Element Method -- a way to combine the …

That is not true, at least for CMS. All the RAW data taken in pp collisions during 2011 and 2012 - ie the Higgs boson discovery dataset - has been saved in tape. As a general rule,…

Hi, member of CMS collaboration here. The author list is ordered: by country name (in English), by town name, by institute name, by author name, by author first name. So, as of thi…

This applies only to more or less "central" locations. Buses to the city outskirts are still infrequent and, during rush hour, will still be stuck in traffic. Metro is good, but it…