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Out of curiosity: what are you referring to?
Probably the faster than light neutrino a little while back. Turned out to be a loose cable if I recall correctly.
"Experts Report Loose Cables Probable Method of Faster-Than-Light-Travel! How You Will Soon Make the Kessel Run in Less Than Twelve Parsecs."
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That time frame is not really accurate. Big accelerators, like many massive projects, are always years behind schedule. Back before the SSC was canceled, it and the LHC were both scheduled to turn on about a decade ago. But since the LHC actually got built, it experienced the real-life hiccups that would have delayed the SSC by years too.
I believe you are mistaken. The LEP and the SSC started early construction at about the same time, and the SSC was cancelled in the early 90s while the LEP started operations in '89. Construction of the LHC did not begin until the late 90s, well after the SSC had been cancelled and operations began about a decade after construction started. Even taking into account thee advantage the LHC had in being able to reuse th…
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That time frame is not really accurate. Big accelerators, like many massive projects, are always years behind schedule. Back before the SSC was canceled, it and the LHC were both scheduled to turn on about a decade ago. But since the LHC actually got built, it experienced the real-life hiccups that would have delayed the SSC by years too.
World's Toughest: Fixes Atom Smasher (S2E8) had a really interesting segment why the LHC took so long to get into service. (it's on hulu and netflix) http://www.hulu.com/watch/176546#i0,p6,s2,d0
Cracked up quite a bit at that little "performance". But all in all, a fascinating video. A bit dramatic, naturally, but I've never seen the LHC in that much detail before. Really cool stuff.
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Probably the faster than light neutrino a little while back. Turned out to be a loose cable if I recall correctly.
I have to give the news media credit for not subsequently reporting: "Experts Report Loose Cables Probable Method of Faster-Than-Light-Travel! How You Will Soon Make the Kessel Run in Less Than Twelve Parsecs."
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I've gotta say, you sound sort of like you think you have a point and that you think it might be controversial, but I have no idea what it might be.
Search for any post about CERN, and you'll find his posts like the above. From what I can tell, he's claiming that CERN discriminates against non-Western people. His evidence is a budget report, where they estimate how much something will cost based on the amount of people involved. The calculation adjusts for where the people are located, and the cost is higher if they're in a Western country.
Humans are running in a relay marathon of knowledge. Physics always seems to stagnate, then jump. The jumps come when a bunch of smart people can collocate and communicate. That's the recipe, and that's the only recipe. It's hard to share the energy in the room when you are not in the same room. The cause of the jump though is not a bunch of people getting together, it's someone crazy enough to throw the first stone.…
The problem with physics these days is that no "sharp" new data is turning up. Instead of turning up a new family of particles in an accelerator, we find big invisible blobs of dark matter. We are getting loads of fascinating unexplained data, but there are few bright line tests that can use it to rule in or out new theories.
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Search for any post about CERN, and you'll find his posts like the above. From what I can tell, he's claiming that CERN discriminates against non-Western people. His evidence is a budget report, where they estimate how much something will cost based on the amount of people involved. The calculation adjusts for where the people are located, and the cost is higher if they're in a Western country.
There are Japanese and Indians who work for CERN, so I think hes just trolling.
But there are Eastern European, CERN member states. Some from there work for CERN, in Switzerland.
Do not think, that value as in monetary value just stays in a spreadsheet cell at HR. The evaluation has consequences in all other evaluations, peer evaluations etc. It does contribute to the evaluation of contributions etc.
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I have to give the news media credit for not subsequently reporting: "Experts Report Loose Cables Probable Method of Faster-Than-Light-Travel! How You Will Soon Make the Kessel Run in Less Than Twelve Parsecs."
Parsec is a measurement of distance not time.