Comments on: Time Travelling God Particles http://punkassblog.com/2009/10/31/time-travelling-god-particles/ Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Jad http://punkassblog.com/2009/10/31/time-travelling-god-particles/comment-page-1/#comment-512838 Jad Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:18:16 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/?p=4622#comment-512838 Super zest is not my objective--perhaps it should be. As far as "getting it," I'm willing to be open minded. What are the benefits of the experiments to be (maybe) conducted at LHC? Super zest is not my objective–perhaps it should be. As far as “getting it,” I’m willing to be open minded. What are the benefits of the experiments to be (maybe) conducted at LHC?

]]> By: violet http://punkassblog.com/2009/10/31/time-travelling-god-particles/comment-page-1/#comment-507695 violet Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:30:56 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/?p=4622#comment-507695 I think it's a joke. I could be wrong, physicists are a weird bunch. (Edited to add: I'm not totally thrilled with calling the LHC a bullshit experiment. “I don't really get it, ergo it must be worthless,” is kindof not super-zesty.) I think it’s a joke. I could be wrong, physicists are a weird bunch.

(Edited to add: I’m not totally thrilled with calling the LHC a bullshit experiment. “I don’t really get it, ergo it must be worthless,” is kindof not super-zesty.)

]]> By: llencelyn http://punkassblog.com/2009/10/31/time-travelling-god-particles/comment-page-1/#comment-507571 llencelyn Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:22:30 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/?p=4622#comment-507571 It's really frustrating to me, as a physicist, to see this story taken as something that "the physicists"/"the theoretical physicists" are doing, collectively. It is just these two guys who have gotten overly superstitious, just like the occasional scientist at every big collaboration in the last two centuries. What these two physicists are proposing IS ridiculous. That's the only reason the media even bothered reporting this for the general public to hear about. Please do not paint us all with the same brush. This story has provided the particle physicists in my research group a good giggle, and a facepalm because we know it's going to be used as a jumping off point to complain about how we're wasting money funding science these days or whatever. It’s really frustrating to me, as a physicist, to see this story taken as something that “the physicists”/”the theoretical physicists” are doing, collectively.

It is just these two guys who have gotten overly superstitious, just like the occasional scientist at every big collaboration in the last two centuries.

What these two physicists are proposing IS ridiculous. That’s the only reason the media even bothered reporting this for the general public to hear about.

Please do not paint us all with the same brush. This story has provided the particle physicists in my research group a good giggle, and a facepalm because we know it’s going to be used as a jumping off point to complain about how we’re wasting money funding science these days or whatever.

]]> By: Tree http://punkassblog.com/2009/10/31/time-travelling-god-particles/comment-page-1/#comment-507557 Tree Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:03:44 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/?p=4622#comment-507557 I first heard of this through word of mouth, so I assumed that a metaphor had been mistranslated and the physicists were trying to balance an equation or whatever by assuming a particle came to the present from the future. but no.. I first heard of this through word of mouth, so I assumed that a metaphor had been mistranslated and the physicists were trying to balance an equation or whatever by assuming a particle came to the present from the future. but no..

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