There's still a chance they can get us all back into the correct timeline.
correct? We are in the correct one.. you cuck!
The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
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Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
#32Happy science ya'll!
Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
#33I 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?
It's rational - it's for the greater good.
Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
#34I 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?
> Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that?
Because it seemed like a funny idea at the time, they didn't think they would get caught, and they didn't think it would receive as much media attention as it inevitably did. They were laughing right up until CERN IT identified two of them as watching the original uploaded video from their network suspiciously early.
Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 was a summer student last year, and from what I've heard it actually wasn't summer students.
As it happens, it was students, but they weren't enrolled in any sort of CERN student programme.
Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
#36Ok taking bets now, missing muons are.. [ ] issue with calculations [ ] go away with more data [x] new physics! [ ] other
[X] other Some interesting patterns in the data which don't quite line up with accepted theory but aren't statistically conclusive.
Well, that's the story at the moment. The question is what will it turn out to be once the analyses are repeated with more data.
Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
#37Ok taking bets now, missing muons are.. [ ] issue with calculations [ ] go away with more data [x] new physics! [ ] other
Which event/study/? are you referring to here?
There are several independent anomalous results in measurements of b-quark decays which all seem to point to a violation of lepton flavour universality. Specifically a reduced coupling to muons.
Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
#38Ok taking bets now, missing muons are.. [ ] issue with calculations [ ] go away with more data [x] new physics! [ ] other
[x] issue with calculations [ ] go away with more data [x] new physics! [ ] other or the general answer: [x] italians
Nah, they're not missing, they just arrive earlier than expected
(ah it seems some old prejudices are still alive ;) )
Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
#39I 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?
> Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that? Because it seemed like a funny idea at the time, they didn't think they would get caught, and they didn't think it would receive as much media attention as it inevitably did. They were laughing right up until CERN IT identified two of them as watching the original uploaded video from their network suspiciously early.
> right up until CERN IT identified two of them as watching the original uploaded video
I've never really got over that blog post[1] a couple of years ago where they smugly described passing on identifying details for an individual that pirated simulation software so they could be slapped with an enormous fine. If this one is also true then CERN IT are beginning to sound awfully eager to go straight for reprisal at the personal level.
[1] https://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/28/News%20Arti...
Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
#40Everyone don your aluminum foil hat... lol