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By: SELF DEVELOPMENT BLOG » Beam Seen in LHC’s CMS Experiment | Cosmic Variance

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:34:10 +0000

[...] baguette-dropping birds be damned! The LHC had another milestone this weekend, as the CMS experiment detected [...]

By: Beam Seen in LHC’s CMS Experiment | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:36:39 +0000

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By: I'd rather be fishin'

I'd rather be fishin' — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:26:52 +0000

@17 There was a short science fiction story written sometime last century about people in the future somehow preventing fission from occurring in the their past AND removing all knowledge of it from peoples’ minds, except for 2 scientists.

Why can I remember this and not what I’m supposed to buy at the grocery store? Must be a plot by the people who run the other grocery store in town.

By: Ross Smith

Ross Smith — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:28:01 +0000

In other LHC news:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1eh/hamster_in_tutu_shuts_down_large_hadron_collider/

By: Sili

Sili — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:16:59 +0000

BJM,

Actually, it was the other way round. They cleaned out the pigeon droppings because they had no clue where the noise was coming from, so they had to check.

Now, if Uranium suddenly stops fissioning in the reactors powering the works, Nielsen and Ninomiya may be on to something.

The problem with the SCSC was that noöne pointed out to the Texans that the thing could double as an aid in executions. It’d almost pay itself back, too, at the rate they’re going.

(YAY! Stereotypes!)

By: Cartesian

Cartesian — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:03:07 +0000

I am sorry for this probably French awkwardness. Anyway I do not eat any baguette generally.

By: BJM

BJM — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:44:01 +0000

Wasn’t the discovery of the cosmic microwave background almost thwarted by interference from pigeon droppings in the antenna? What are these birds trying to hide from us?

By: Eyes Squared

Eyes Squared — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:22:35 +0000

A crusty piece of bread seems pretty insignificant when compared to the LHC but when compared to the particles it is designed to measure a crusty piece of bread is HUGE! How did they miss it?

By: Brian Mingus

Brian Mingus — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:33:13 +0000

As funny as this is it is very bad news for the LHC. We would like to believe that such large oversights do not exist after so many billions. Surely some of that money covers the cost of a tarp? If something can’t survive a piece of bread on it, what is it doing outside? As apparently small as this issue is, it is a major, expensive, failure.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:33:47 +0000

TERNINATOR

By: graviton383

graviton383 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:31:02 +0000

Only in FRANCE do the baguettes become self-aware…they’re almosy there now…

By: graviton383

graviton383 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:29:49 +0000

Talk about a random bizarre occurance! Of course this has attracted a lot of attention in the blogosphere as well as several newspapers. I will bet that the resposible bird is not a Bluefooted Booby.

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:29:49 +0000

No no no. In the future where the LHC exists, the baguettes have become self-aware and realize that the universe is doomed on that path. They sent one of their own back (who else would you trust?) to stop the LHC and save us all (including the unborn baguettes)!

By: asd

asd — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:26:08 +0000

A bird sent from the future.

by spacehitler

By: Julianne

Julianne — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:51:40 +0000

the chunk of bread was dropped from the sky by a passing bird.

A bird sent from the future.

By: Matt T

Matt T — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:20:02 +0000

@ Blake (#5): You’re right. If it were in Texas, BBQ sauce would have fouled up the super-conducting magnets. Or a cowboy hat would have been left in the path of the electron beam.
Ah…I heart sterotypes

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:46 +0000

If we’d built that collider in Texas, we wouldn’t have problems like this.

By: db

db — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:21:15 +0000

Anthropic principle at work!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:07:11 +0000

Chalk up another for Neilson and Ninomiya. Though I’d require something a little more bizarre to confirm their theory. Its France, so maybe the LHC failing because of Mickey D’s?

By: Meng Bomin

Meng Bomin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:40 +0000

Well, there’s that Higgs boson, stiffling our efforts to discover it again.