O/T: Higgs boson found today?
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I have been following the news from the LHC for years with my math students. I am very excited about the recent announcements.
John Swenson
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debk said:
Tubes ARE particle accelerators! Just a few EV short of CERN....
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dbishopbliss
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I dropped my Higgs boson the other day. I was hoping someone would find it.
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DAM! Now we have to rethink our thinking about what we thought. I'm stickin' with old school, where Pluto is still a planet 'n stuff like that. My world was flat 'till Gundry screwed it up.
You guys are funny!
Nonetheless, as a guy who cut his engineering teeth in high energy physics research, this is totally fascinating to me and I have a very real sense of what things must have been like at CERN and for all the scientists, engineers and tecs involved.
I've heard it said that our scientific breaktrhoughs are happening at a very accelerated pace these days -- probably due in most part to a polymerization effect of knowledge building, but also because of increased computer processing, cloud computing, etc. It wasn't but a few months ago that somebody found something faster than light and thus rendered the theory of relativity more or less invalid.
Maybe one day we'll know why different audio cables sound like they do
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-- Jim
Nonetheless, as a guy who cut his engineering teeth in high energy physics research, this is totally fascinating to me and I have a very real sense of what things must have been like at CERN and for all the scientists, engineers and tecs involved.
I've heard it said that our scientific breaktrhoughs are happening at a very accelerated pace these days -- probably due in most part to a polymerization effect of knowledge building, but also because of increased computer processing, cloud computing, etc. It wasn't but a few months ago that somebody found something faster than light and thus rendered the theory of relativity more or less invalid.
Maybe one day we'll know why different audio cables sound like they do
.-- Jim
Grainger49
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Jim,
You made me laugh. My wife said, "What?" I had to explain. She has a math degree, stuff I didn't want to know about. She knows about cables being different and because she hasn't been around stuff in the 115dB volume level I ask her to listen for me when I'm making comparisons. She often says the same thing I do.
You made me laugh. My wife said, "What?" I had to explain. She has a math degree, stuff I didn't want to know about. She knows about cables being different and because she hasn't been around stuff in the 115dB volume level I ask her to listen for me when I'm making comparisons. She often says the same thing I do.
Grainger49
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Can't have her. I know she is a keeper.
...JohnGrainger49
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There are no conversations, you just point. It requires ear plugs and muffs. You are not to work for over 1/2 hour in the area without leaving for 10 minutes. It was a compressor room with four 1750 Hp medium voltage motors running single stage air compressors for process air in a non-woven mill.
1750 hp? Something that big turning single stage would generate some serious thump. What an environment to deal with! A company I used to be associated with handled a "Joy centrifugal" air compressor used in large natural gas power plants. It generated oil free air, was run non stop (zero maintenance) from initial start until taken off line. At approximately 10,000 hp it was installed in it's own building that was specifically designed for the equipment. A truly awesome piece of equipment to see and hear running.
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Grainger49
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Joy is well known to K-C. They are used extensively in Wisconsin. But not as big as 10,000 Hp.
