Physics news

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:18 am

...looking for neutrinos in all the wrong faces...

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:41 am

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Wed May 11, 2005 1:29 pm

lswot wrote:

Ya took de woids right outa' me mout!

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Wed May 11, 2005 1:52 pm

Wouldn't that be unsanitary?

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:54 am

Sacred constant might be changing

Physical constants are one of the cornerstones of physics – sacred numbers which we know to be fixed – but what if some of these constants are changing? Speaking at the Institute of Physics conference Physics 2005, Dr Michael Murphy of Cambridge University will discuss the “fine structure constant” – one of the critical numbers in the universe which seems to be precisely tuned for life to exist – and suggest that it might not be constant after all.

(Whoa!)

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Fri May 13, 2005 10:50 am

Talk about an oxymoran!

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri May 13, 2005 10:55 am

Oxymoron? Like "military intelligence", or "Microsoft Works"?
(And put your eyes back where the belong!

)

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Fri May 13, 2005 10:56 am

Henry J wrote:Oxymoron? Like "military intelligence", or "Microsoft Works"?
(And put your eyes back where the belong! )

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 8:19 am

'Strange' physics experiment is unraveling structure of proton

An international team of nuclear physicists has determined that particles called strange quarks do, indeed, contribute to the ordinary properties of the proton.

(Reality is "strange"r than fiction, huh?)

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Liverpool scientists help to solve the mysteries of quarks

Particle Physicists are embarking on a new attempt to solve the mysteries of quarks with the completion of the three most powerful supercomputers ever applied to this problem, [...] yet it is impossible to examine a single quark in the laboratory.

(If not a single one, what about a married one?)

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Henry

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:32 am

Um....we've always thought Quark to be strange.

And NO ONE, not even a SuperComputer can understand Quark.

"They" need to watch some DS9 episodes.

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:25 pm

"They" need to watch some DS9 episodes.

And a mug of prune juice (the warrior's drink) on the house.

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:53 am

Xjmt wrote:
"They" need to watch some DS9 episodes.
And a mug of prune juice (the warrior's drink) on the house.

Make that Warnog and your on.......:preach:

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:16 am

More Quark news!

Higher Precision Analysis Doesn’t Yield Pentaquark

New, higher precision data that could only have been gathered at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) shows the Theta-plus pentaquark doesn’t appear in another place it was expected. This intriguing finding contradicts evidence previously presented by Jefferson Lab researchers that they had sighted a pentaquark, a particle built of five quarks.

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:20 am

Early Universe was packed with mini black holes

Most cosmologists believe that supermassive black holes grew up in big galaxies, accumulating mass as time went on. But Haehnelt says there is increasing evidence for a different view – that small black holes grew independently and merged to produce the giants which exist today.

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:07 am

Bottom quarks reveal something of their identity

Dutch researcher Bram Wijngaarden investigated how bottom quarks are created during collisions between protons and antiprotons. Wijngaarden's measurements have contributed to a better understanding of the theory, and can be used to explain why the production of these quarks during such collisions is higher than had originally been expected.

(Are these researchers finally getting to the "bottom" of things?

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Henry