Comments on: Is the LHC Too Busy To Blog? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:42:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-41007 Ben Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:59:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-41007 As a new grad student on CMS, and having gone to a multiple hour meeting discussing color palettes for histograms...I wouldn't hold your breath for something like what you are speaking of being implemented without at least 10 hours of meetings. Oh by the way, it turns out good is green and bad is red. As a new grad student on CMS, and having gone to a multiple hour meeting discussing color palettes for histograms…I wouldn’t hold your breath for something like what you are speaking of being implemented without at least 10 hours of meetings.

Oh by the way, it turns out good is green and bad is red.

]]> By: JCF http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-41006 JCF Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:34:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-41006 Associated Press decides "Nothing to fear from atom-smasher": http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2008-06-28_D91J8PU00&show_article=1&cat=breaking Associated Press decides “Nothing to fear from atom-smasher”: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2008-06-28_D91J8PU00&show_article=1&cat=breaking

]]> By: Sean http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-41005 Sean Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:15:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-41005 LowFlyingRocks is pretty awesome. LowFlyingRocks is pretty awesome.

]]> By: Mike M http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-40993 Mike M Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:21:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-40993 Have to agree that a blog along the lines of "not a Higgs... not a Higgs... not a Higgs... [repeat 10^16 times]... not a Higgs... not a Higgs... bugger they cut my budg" would not make for the most interesting reading... Have to agree that a blog along the lines of “not a Higgs… not a Higgs… not a Higgs… [repeat 10^16 times]… not a Higgs… not a Higgs… bugger they cut my budg” would not make for the most interesting reading…

]]> By: Ian Mulvany http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-40992 Ian Mulvany Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:55:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-40992 Hi Sean, There are few real objects that have twitter accounts, and things that make data and have an API attached can easily be set up to auto-twitter. The first two examples that spring to mind are Tower Bridge in London: http://twitter.com/towerbridge, and the excellent Low Flying Rocks http://twitter.com/LowFlyingRocks which tweets every now and again when an asteroid passes by, always sends a shiver down my spine. - Ian Hi Sean,

There are few real objects that have twitter accounts, and things that make data and have an API attached can easily be set up to auto-twitter. The first two examples that spring to mind are Tower Bridge in London: http://twitter.com/towerbridge, and the excellent Low Flying Rocks http://twitter.com/LowFlyingRocks which tweets every now and again when an asteroid passes by, always sends a shiver down my spine.

- Ian

]]> By: Bob Munck http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-41004 Bob Munck Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:24:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-41004 Wouldn't an LHC blog contain millions of posts every day, each gigabytes in length? I'm having trouble keeping up with my RSS feeds as it is. Wouldn’t an LHC blog contain millions of posts every day, each gigabytes in length? I’m having trouble keeping up with my RSS feeds as it is.

]]> By: Boltzmann's Reptilian Brain http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-41003 Boltzmann's Reptilian Brain Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:24:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-41003 I fear that if the LHC gets its own blog its first words will be "My god....it's full of....nothing but standard model stuff!" Alternatively it might well lead to the construction of the first sentence ever written containing the words "spontaneous symmetry breaking" and "twee". I fear that if the LHC gets its own blog its first words will be

“My god….it’s full of….nothing but standard model stuff!”

Alternatively it might well lead to the construction of the first sentence ever written containing the words “spontaneous symmetry breaking” and “twee”.

]]> By: Kea http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-41002 Kea Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:42:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-41002 Cool! I'm now one of Phoenix's friends on Facebook! Cool! I’m now one of Phoenix’s friends on Facebook!

]]> By: spaz http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-41001 spaz Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:22:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-41001 A collidor with a blog reminds me of Jonathan Lethem's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_She_Climbed_Across_the_Table" rel="nofollow">novel</a> about a black hole with a personality. A collidor with a blog reminds me of Jonathan Lethem’s novel about a black hole with a personality.

]]> By: graviton383 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-41000 graviton383 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:13:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-41000 The latest rumor I've heard as of this AM is that 10 TeV collision will startthe end of October & will go for ~40 days accumulating 20 pb^-1 of integrated luminosity...enough for detector tuning with the usual SM processes. The latest rumor I’ve heard as of this AM is that 10 TeV collision will startthe end of October & will go for ~40 days accumulating 20 pb^-1 of integrated luminosity…enough for detector tuning with the usual SM processes.

]]> By: Sili http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-40999 Sili Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:53:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-40999 Let me guess: Elle's first post will be about how those mean humans are freezing her but off. Let me guess: Elle’s first post will be about how those mean humans are freezing her but off.

]]> By: Ellipsis http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-40998 Ellipsis Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:28:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-40998 sorry, I didn't see the "Humans" link. It's a fine idea to make a public-friendly version of the hardware commisioning site, person to request this of would be Lyn Evans at CERN, Lyn.Evans@cern.ch sorry, I didn’t see the “Humans” link. It’s a fine idea to make a public-friendly version of the hardware commisioning site, person to request this of would be Lyn Evans at CERN, Lyn.Evans@cern.ch

]]> By: Ellipsis http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-40995 Ellipsis Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:53:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-40995 I think your wish has been magically granted: http://www.uslhc.us/The_US_and_the_LHC/US_LHC_Blogs I think your wish has been magically granted:

http://www.uslhc.us/The_US_and_the_LHC/US_LHC_Blogs

]]> By: TimG http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-40997 TimG Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:25:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-40997 <blockquote>After that, it’s up to Nature, who will decide whether to give us some interesting physics discoveries early, or really make us work for them.</blockquote> For a second I thought you were telling me that the <em>journal</em> Nature might decide to make us wait before telling us what was discovered. It's not like a scientific journal to deliberately keep us in suspense. ;)

After that, it’s up to Nature, who will decide whether to give us some interesting physics discoveries early, or really make us work for them.

For a second I thought you were telling me that the journal Nature might decide to make us wait before telling us what was discovered. It’s not like a scientific journal to deliberately keep us in suspense. ;)

]]> By: Jason Dick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-40996 Jason Dick Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:52:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-40996 Actually, GBM=GLAST Burst Monitor ;) Actually, GBM=GLAST Burst Monitor ;)

]]> By: Eric http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-40994 Eric Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:30:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/06/26/is-the-lhc-too-busy-to-blog/#comment-40994 For what it's worth LAT is the Large Area Telescope and GBM is the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. For what it’s worth LAT is the Large Area Telescope and GBM is the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor.

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