Now, I'm going to try reading more of the boards to see if I can get tired enough to go back to bed...
TL
It must have worked it's now 7:30AM on the East Coast!!
It's chilly here today, in the low +30'sF, got down into the +20's yesterday morning but nothing like at Bills place!! OR Dr Mike's scorching hot day either!!
The second problem is why there’s so much more regular matter than antimatter - if our current physics models suggest that an equal amount of regular particles and antiparticles were produced by the Big Bang, shouldn’t everything in the Universe have cancelled itself out?
Well if it had have done we wouldn't be here to wonder about it would we. The universe would have self imploded and disappeared up it's ......
"Something happened, some small asymmetry that led some of the matter to survive, and we simply have no good idea that explains that right now," says one of the team, Jeffrey Hangst, from the ALPHA experiment at CERN in Switzerland.
Philosophers have looked up at the night sky for tens of thousands of years and wondered why are we all here, is there a reason? So back to square one then.
But if matter and antimatter don't mirror each other - if antimatter doesn't obey the same laws of physics as regular matter - our models of the Big Bang will be flawed.
Oh dear that's a shame, better cancel all the Professorships then
And that gives us the chance to rethink everything and figure out once and for all why matter escaped total annihilation in the Universe and allowed us and everything else to exist.
Because when God created the universe she said oh to hell with it, let them work it out for themselves.
In other words, they have spent about $13 billion at Cern, and the running costs are about $1 billion per year. And they are no futher forward than Aristotle was in 350BC.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Special relativity was well confirmed as symmetric for antimatter many decades ago, but not in the exact manner than CERN has just done it. The more interesting trouble is in quantum field theories and/or special initial conditions*. This result is a rather late horse across the line after the bookies have paid out and everyone went home. It's good science for sure, but crap media pump. Mind you they did leave a weasel word or two to cover that ( my blue emphasis ) :
Quote:
"This represents a historic point in the decades-long efforts to create antimatter and compare its properties to those of matter," theoretical physicist Alan Kostelecky from Indiana University, who was not involved in the study ....
The rest of the article is cut&paste from a twitchy sub-editor as after three short paragraphs on the findings, it jumps to "Where is all the antimatter?" question : which this study does not address. But it would be handy to have some antimatter about. A bucket or two of it would do nicely, then we could throw crap journalists in and keep our hands warm from the glow.
{ But hark! What light upon yonder window breaks. T'is the East and Juliet is made of antimatter .... }
Cheers, Mike.
* More detail : Dirac and then Feynman demonstrated that antimatter must exist, and symmetrically so with respect to electromagnetism, as a consequence of assuming that Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are true. Many experimental results since have shown the universe works that way. What does need explanation is why the weak nuclear force has a 'left-handedness' .......
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
"Where is all the antimatter?" question : which this study does not address. But it would be handy to have some antimatter about. A bucket or two of it would do nicely, then we could throw crap journalists in and keep our hands warm from the glow.
Well exactly my dear chap. The trouble is that there are so many about that it would take quite a few buckets of antimatter to deal with them all. But then again it could possibly be an innovative renewable energy source, now that fossil fuels are running out, and people are running scared of nuclear.
{ But hark! What light upon yonder window breaks. T'is the east and Juliet is made of antimatter .... }
With apologies to Dire Straits
Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme me a heart attack
You flogging antimatter again behind my back?
You shouldn't come around here bothering people like that
Anyway what you gonna do about it, gimme a discount?
Scene VI
Romeo of matter couples with Juliet of antimatter and it's all over in milli seconds.
Audience sighs and goes home and says, nothing new there then ......
What does need explanation is why the weak nuclear force has a 'left-handedness' .......
Because it reads the Guardian?
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
I have occasionally toyed with the idea of turning to the Dark Side ie. transition from gamekeeper to poacher. Maybe get a job as pseudoscience reporter for the Constructed News Network, or factoid manager for Fabricated OXymoron News. It's a buffet of BS out there ..... :-)))
I came across this the other day ( my red underline emphasis ) :
Published in 1776 in a book called "The Wealth Of Nations" by a chap called Adam Smith. { It is a contemporary view on how people behave with regard to money, assets, contracts for labour etc. A tedious read, but for one thing he suggested that workers obtain special skills and hence charge more for their time. }
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Middle of the night Post...
Middle of the night Post... 2:15 AM - PST
<<----- Insomnia again...
Love the cat in the shopping cart!!!
Now, I'm going to try reading more of the boards to see if I can get tired enough to go back to bed...
TL
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TimeLord04 wrote:Middle of
It must have worked it's now 7:30AM on the East Coast!!
It's chilly here today, in the low +30'sF, got down into the +20's yesterday morning but nothing like at Bills place!! OR Dr Mike's scorching hot day either!!
The cat in the trolley has
The cat in the trolley has what every husband wants for Xmas :-)))
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
(No subject)
Annie minion :)
Einstein@Home Verified Contributor (I think?)
Dr Bacon _Lost Pens
Something about Mars and Venus comes to mind!!
Has anybody wondered what the
Has anybody wondered what the light spectrum of antimatter is? Well wonder no more :)
Annie minion :)
Einstein@Home Verified Contributor (I think?)
Perhaps I am being
Perhaps I am being mischeivous tonight but
Well if it had have done we wouldn't be here to wonder about it would we. The universe would have self imploded and disappeared up it's ......
Philosophers have looked up at the night sky for tens of thousands of years and wondered why are we all here, is there a reason? So back to square one then.
Oh dear that's a shame, better cancel all the Professorships then
Because when God created the universe she said oh to hell with it, let them work it out for themselves.
In other words, they have spent about $13 billion at Cern, and the running costs are about $1 billion per year. And they are no futher forward than Aristotle was in 350BC.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Special relativity was well
Special relativity was well confirmed as symmetric for antimatter many decades ago, but not in the exact manner than CERN has just done it. The more interesting trouble is in quantum field theories and/or special initial conditions*. This result is a rather late horse across the line after the bookies have paid out and everyone went home. It's good science for sure, but crap media pump. Mind you they did leave a weasel word or two to cover that ( my blue emphasis ) :
The rest of the article is cut&paste from a twitchy sub-editor as after three short paragraphs on the findings, it jumps to "Where is all the antimatter?" question : which this study does not address. But it would be handy to have some antimatter about. A bucket or two of it would do nicely, then we could throw crap journalists in and keep our hands warm from the glow.
{ But hark! What light upon yonder window breaks. T'is the East and Juliet is made of antimatter .... }
Cheers, Mike.
* More detail : Dirac and then Feynman demonstrated that antimatter must exist, and symmetrically so with respect to electromagnetism, as a consequence of assuming that Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are true. Many experimental results since have shown the universe works that way. What does need explanation is why the weak nuclear force has a 'left-handedness' .......
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
"Where is all the
Well exactly my dear chap. The trouble is that there are so many about that it would take quite a few buckets of antimatter to deal with them all. But then again it could possibly be an innovative renewable energy source, now that fossil fuels are running out, and people are running scared of nuclear.
With apologies to Dire Straits
Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme me a heart attack
You flogging antimatter again behind my back?
You shouldn't come around here bothering people like that
Anyway what you gonna do about it, gimme a discount?
Scene VI
Romeo of matter couples with Juliet of antimatter and it's all over in milli seconds.
Audience sighs and goes home and says, nothing new there then ......
Because it reads the Guardian?
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
I have occasionally toyed
I have occasionally toyed with the idea of turning to the Dark Side ie. transition from gamekeeper to poacher. Maybe get a job as pseudoscience reporter for the Constructed News Network, or factoid manager for Fabricated OXymoron News. It's a buffet of BS out there ..... :-)))
I came across this the other day ( my red underline emphasis ) :
Published in 1776 in a book called "The Wealth Of Nations" by a chap called Adam Smith. { It is a contemporary view on how people behave with regard to money, assets, contracts for labour etc. A tedious read, but for one thing he suggested that workers obtain special skills and hence charge more for their time. }
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal