iamshack Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Dec 12, 2011 -> 11:55 PM) Incredible beyond words. I'm already preparing myself for the impact on my daily life... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman delivers Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 12, 2011 -> 11:56 PM) I'm already preparing myself for the impact on my daily life... Haha, that'd be the cynical way of looking at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I knew I should've just PM'd Balta with that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman delivers Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I was completely serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I still have no clue what the God particle even is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPN366 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I had $3.52 from a gift card balance I had on the iTunes store wiped out. I e-mailed them and they responded back that I have $11.88 on my balance now. I don't get it, but I'll take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 01:06 AM) I still have no clue what the God particle even is. The Subatomic particle that is responsible for basically the existence of "Mass". In other words, it pretty much makes up...everything. It's just been really, really, really hard to detect up until now. The difficulty of detecting it and the fact that it seems so important, causing "Mass", is where that name has come from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 12, 2011 -> 11:39 PM) Physicist Brian Greene's facebook status: FYI: Higgs particle info Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 09:43 AM) The Subatomic particle that is responsible for basically the existence of "Mass". In other words, it pretty much makes up...everything. It's just been really, really, really hard to detect up until now. The difficulty of detecting it and the fact that it seems so important, causing "Mass", is where that name has come from. Here's a different, somewhat-readable, 2 page writeup of where this particle sits in modern physics thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Too much science; time for stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman delivers Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 09:31 AM) Too much science; time for stupid. Haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I love physics and quantum theory and all this stuff about the higgs boson particle, but man does it make my head hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 So, here's a more specific, much more vague sounding statement out of CERN, not nearly as confident as people were predicting they'd be. “Over the last few weeks we have started to see an intriguing excess of events,” explained Fabiola Gianotti, a spokesperson from CERN’s ATLAS experiment, one of the six experiments running on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator. Gianotti continued: “This excess may be due to a fluctuation, but it could also be something more interesting. We cannot conclude anything at this stage.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Nerdy explanations: A 125-126 GeV Higgs? Today’s Higgs Results Higgs Update Today: Inconclusive, As Expected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Ok, even I don't know what I'm supposed to see in that graph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) Ok, even I don't know what I'm supposed to see in that graph. I'm kinda hoping that the part before the first blue line represents Adam Dunn's production in 2011, the part between the blue lines his production in 2012, and the part after the second blue line is his production in 2013. Edited December 13, 2011 by HickoryHuskers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 01:29 PM) Ok, even I don't know what I'm supposed to see in that graph. I think I have a very vague idea of what it's showing. The green band is 1-sigma and the yellow band is 2-sigma confidence levels, and it plots expected vs. observed energy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 02:40 PM) I think I have a very vague idea of what it's showing. The green band is 1-sigma and the yellow band is 2-sigma confidence levels, and it plots expected vs. observed energy? Actually, I got that part, but the energy region being discussed for the "possible Higgs" is in the range of 125 GEV, and there is no peak highlighted on there. There are 2 vertical blue bars, one of which seems to show a discontinuity in the LHC spectrum at ~220 GEV which is predicted, and a small but possibly significant outside the margin of error peak around 160 GEV...neither of which are in the range of the supposed "possible Higgs". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 02:31 PM) I'm kinda hoping that the part before the first blue line represents Adam Dunn's production in 2011, the part between the blue lines his production in 2012, and the part after the second blue line is his production in 2013. Unfortunately that would mean Adam Dunn's 2012 production was still incredibly bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2011/12/1...n-on-his-shirt/ Hahaha dumbass racist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 08:36 PM) http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2011/12/1...n-on-his-shirt/ Hahaha dumbass racist I love it when the punishment fits the crime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 The dollar coin is dead http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/bre...0,5476345.story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 (edited) QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 14, 2011 -> 10:13 AM) The dollar coin is dead http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/bre...0,5476345.story Yet the penny is still alive and everywhere. Edited December 14, 2011 by LittleHurt05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Pennies make me angry. I'd rather have $0.00 than $0.01. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Pennies make me angry. I'd rather have $0.00 than $0.01. I actually find myself paying with my debit card even when I have enough cash, just to avoid getting pennies. ===== Eliminating pennies and dollar bills is a good start, but I'd go further. Eliminate dimes, half-dollars, ten dollar bills, and fifty dollar bills. All the currency you need are nickels, quarters, dollar coins, fives, twenties, and hundreds. Though unnecessary, I would keep the $2 bill around to appease the people who hate coins so much. Also may want to consider putting the $500 bill back into circulation due to inflation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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