Paging Dr Ivan

Oi! If you LHC fuckers are going to open up wormholes to other
dimensions:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8404991.stm

can you do it over here please? They're so *pretty*.

 

looks like it's been projected.

Viral publicity stunt?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,

Apparently (from elsewhere) seen over a very wide area, indicating it
was at high altitude.

Russkie rocket gone tits-up is the latest theory.

 

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/09/what-was-the-norway-spiral/

 

It looks like the illumination is projected, certainly. But I can't see
any sign of the pattern itself in the beam.

 

****.

PML .. just started to copy and paste it to babel ....

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel posted:

Attention all agents of spacetime resonance 42: the signal is given.
Prepare for next stage.

 

He speaks great Swedish.

 

Must have done it as per your request because that URL is returning a
404 error now.

 

Very true. Learn one, get two free[1].

[1] Almost.

 

Zose krayzee Cherman Norwegians.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Hey, do you think we'd give anything that pretty to the *Norwegians*?
(Tho' it is Blue...)

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Tosspot

First paper published already!

 

Well, we're closing down for ~6 weeks on the 19th. I rather expect
we might just try for something like 2.5 TeV each way on the 18th...
Maybe even 3.5 TeV (I think that's our main operating energy for 2010).

The ALICE one? I know there's a CMS paper in the works, but just
when it appears is another thing entirely. We've just published a flurry
of papers on the preliminary work we did last year with cosmics (Cosmic
Runs At (almost) Four Tesla 2008 -- CRAFT08). The one I was involved with
(adjusting the relative alignment of all the detector modules by minimising
the discrepencies in reconstructed particle tracks) was the first out of
the gate. My contribution was mainly in translating all the Russian and
German and Italian into English, tho' I did do a bit of programming too...

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Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
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Except we haven't. A teravolt would be a TV, not a TeV. The latter is a
large number of electron volts, 3.5 TeV being roughly half a microjoule.

I hope you don't work in anything that involves physics.

Oh. Shit.

 

Ooh. 3.5 PeV might have impressed me.

actually probably not even then. I remember fucking around with a 3.5
TW x-ray laser back in the 80s - surely things have moved on a bit?
You scientists need bigger numbers.

 

darsy posted:

According to Wikipedia, 1 TeV is approximately the kinetic energy of a
flying mosquito.

 

All packed into a single particle.

 

ogden posted:

In those terms, that's quite a punch.

 

Except that in physics, TeV is usually promounced "teravolt".

What annoys me about the particle physicists is that they leave off
the powers of c so that they give momenta and energies in, say, GeV,
instead of GeV/c and GeV/c^2.

If it's good enough for Swindon Town Football Club^W^W^W^WScience
and Technology Facilities Council...

We're already getting into petabytes for our disk storage, but I guess
many corporations are these days as well.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".