Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?

Mo3 wrote: post #2

> but to borrow a German idiom, don’t eat the headlines as hot as they’re cooked. I'm German and I have never heard this before, but I like it.

I think it's reffering to "Nichts wird so heiß gegessen wie es gekocht wird", which translates to "Nothing get's eaten as hot as it get's cooked.".

Re: Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?

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Post by olaf » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 1:55 PM UTC

to paraphrase a german …

Re: Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?

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Post by jhgb » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 1:59 PM UTC

Mo3 wrote: post #2

> but to borrow a German idiom, don’t eat the headlines as hot as they’re cooked. I'm German and I have never heard this before, but I like it.

It's definitely a Czech idiom - "nic se nejí tak horké, jak se to uvaří". But apparently German has this, too: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/es_wird_nichts_so_hei%C3%9F_g...

Re: Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?

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Post by PaulHoule » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 2:03 PM UTC

Supersymmetry is simple in the context of string theory, which is where it came from.

Write it down for particles and it is as godawful mess.

Re: Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?

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Post by LegitShady » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

mikub wrote: post #4

Mo3 wrote: post #2

> but to borrow a German idiom, don’t eat the headlines as hot as they’re cooked. I'm German and I have never heard this before, but I like it.

I think it's reffering to "Nichts wird so heiß gegessen wie es gekocht wird", which translates to "Nothing get's eaten as hot as it get's cooked.".

Except overnight oats

Re: Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?

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Post by Aaargh20318 » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 2:18 PM UTC

Mo3 wrote: post #2

> but to borrow a German idiom, don’t eat the headlines as hot as they’re cooked. I'm German and I have never heard this before, but I like it.

Dutch has something similar: “ de soep wordt nooit zo heet gegeten, als zij wordt opgediend” (The soup is never eaten as hot as it was served).

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Post by kalimanzaro » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 2:20 PM UTC

Mo3 wrote: post #2

> but to borrow a German idiom, don’t eat the headlines as hot as they’re cooked. I'm German and I have never heard this before, but I like it.

"the headlines never get as hot on the plate as they did in the pan."

--English speaker trying to make sense of it