Uh, they both cost more than I've earned in a livetime?
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roger
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Sat 11 Oct, 2008 12:54 am
@Robert Gentel,
I have now! Thanks, nimh. It was obvious, but I needed that, anyway.
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roger
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Sat 11 Oct, 2008 01:06 am
@Sglass,
Uh oh. I bet I just fell for something else real stupid.
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Mr Stillwater
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Sat 11 Oct, 2008 02:54 am
But it has shown zero tolerance to large hadrons.
They're looking for quarks. They are my favourite sub-atomic particles coz they come in nicely weird 'flavours', such us 'up', 'down', 'strange' and 'charm'.
Quark is also the German word for a cheese like ricotta. These physicists are either seriously dope-smokers or just having us on.
It appears that due to shoddy workmanship that we don't need to worry about the earth getting sucked into a man made black whole for a couple of years
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CERN will not try for seven trillion electron volts until after a prolonged shutdown, during which the technicians plan to fix all the faulty splices. In addition to the splice problems, many of the magnets that steer the protons around the ring have mysteriously lost their ability to withstand enough current to steer high-energy protons. They will have to be “retrained,” in physicist jargon.
They're looking for quarks. They are my favourite sub-atomic particles coz they come in nicely weird 'flavours', such us 'up', 'down', 'strange' and 'charm'.
Quark is also the German word for a cheese like ricotta. These physicists are either seriously dope-smokers or just having us on.
They were named after a line in "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce.