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I'm hoping it's some kind of temporal fuzzing where particles are going backwards in time and causing interference with both past and future events. No reason other than because that'd be awesome.
I'd settle for figuring out how to send an email to a previous point in time. I'd like to email myself in 2009. Something about buying a bunch of ASIC's and mining something for a long-term hold.
There's still a chance they can get us all back into the correct timeline.
Now I'm curious how much someone's chance of having seen/played anything Steins;Gate goes up when preconditioned on visiting Hacker News at least once a week.
Are they homing in on anything that would excite the general public like the Higgs did?
I wonder if there was another human sacrifice under the Shiva statue to mark the restart. Only half joking. Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that?
Letting loose 200 summer students will result in some sort of event. When we were getting ready for the 2008 startup of the LHC someone sent a crowbar guess how many Gordon Freeman themed youTube videos came out of that.
I wonder if there was another human sacrifice under the Shiva statue to mark the restart. Only half joking. Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that?
Letting loose 200 summer students will result in some sort of event. When we were getting ready for the 2008 startup of the LHC someone sent a crowbar guess how many Gordon Freeman themed youTube videos came out of that.
Are they homing in on anything that would excite the general public like the Higgs did?
I'm still not sure what about the Higgs excited the general public. Or why it hasn't applied to e.g. gravity wave detection, especially since that one is much easier to explain and understand.
It catered to a certain part of the population, and snowballed from there.
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Now I'm curious how much someone's chance of having seen/played anything Steins;Gate goes up when preconditioned on visiting Hacker News at least once a week.
I watched SG but I read the timeline reference in terms of "Community". I.e. this is the darkest timeline.
Ok taking bets now, missing muons are.. [ ] issue with calculations [ ] go away with more data [x] new physics! [ ] other
or the general answer: [x] italians
I wonder if there was another human sacrifice under the Shiva statue to mark the restart. Only half joking. Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that?
Letting loose 200 summer students will result in some sort of event. When we were getting ready for the 2008 startup of the LHC someone sent a crowbar guess how many Gordon Freeman themed youTube videos came out of that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm still not sure what about the Higgs excited the general public. Or why it hasn't applied to e.g. gravity wave detection, especially since that one is much easier to explain and understand.
Blame it on the decision of the publisher of a certain book to take a phrase from an early draft "that goddamn particle", drop a syllable and change anotherone and make it the title of that book "the god particle". It catered to a certain part of the population, and snowballed from there.
Then add the crap about LHC creating a black hole and destroying the universe and you have 500 TV stations at the launch of a particle accelerator. The specific experiment that was happening at the time didn't matter much.