Record-breaking collisions (Large Hadron Collider producing more mesons than expected)

MIT News ^ | 2/5/10 | Anne Trafton

[cripplecreek]

Free mesons?

[Man50D]

(Large Hadron Collider producing more mesons than expected)

Hey, watch the language!

[1rudeboy]

Video.

[Diogenesis]

" .... and muons for free"

[netmilsmom]

Obama will take credit for this.

[agere_contra]

Has Gordon Freeman turned up at the site yet?

[Brilliant]

Physicists often talk about how the predictions of quantum mechanics have never been proven wrong. But you won’t hear them say, “except that time we predicted only a few mesons, and we actually got a lot.” The stuff of quantum mechanics is probability. Apparently, the equations gave them the wrong probabilities.

[Nervous Tick]

Hey, watch the language!

Indeed.

[dr_lew]

Physicists often talk about how the predictions of quantum mechanics have never been proven wrong. But you won’t hear them say, “except that time we predicted only a few mesons, and we actually got a lot.”

This does not prove Quantum Mechanics wrong. QM is a framework within which theories about how particles and fields interact can be constructed. It's this framework which has always held up no matter what kind of interactions are being considered, and there is no exception in this case.

[cripplecreek]

That ain’t workin.

[4Speed]

I feel utterly unqualifed to comment upon this Post.

However, I did stay at a Holiday Inn, due to a collision of high Energy Neon producing Hotel 6 rejects.

The resulting effects were unpredicted.

[SunkenCiv]

...a factor that will have to be taken into account when physicists start looking for more rarer particles and for the theorized Higgs boson.

Thanks LibWhacker.

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[SunkenCiv]

• "Popper argued that prima facie evidence of a bogus theory was the practice of altering or enlarging it, by its authors, to accommodate new evidence since its original formulation." -- The Real Way to Save the Planet (AGW, Popper and falsifiability

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for the link to that video.

It was actually pretty good!

Looked like an employee’s version of “what do we do while we wait for this puppy to get up to speed”.

[njslim]

Wait until they create a black hole and suck the earth into it....

[InterceptPoint]

Place your bets. Will they find the Higgs boson?

I'm betting NO.

[TChad]

The time-traveling pigeon must have overslept.

[ricks_place]

[SharpRightTurn]

Bosons, mesons, pions, and kaons.

Sounds far less dangerous than Pelosis, Reeds, Emanuels, Axelrods, and Obummers.