Fermilab Discovers Untheorized Particle 217
alevy writes to mention that scientists at Fermilab have detected a new, completely untheorized particle. Seems like Fermi has been a hotbed of activity lately with the discovery of a new single top quark and narrowing the gap twice on the Higgs Boson particle. "The Y(4140) particle is the newest member of a family of particles of similar unusual characteristics observed in the last several years by experimenters at Fermilab's Tevatron as well as at KEK and the SLAC lab, which operates at Stanford through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy. 'We congratulate CDF on the first evidence for a new unexpected Y state that decays to J/psi and phi,' said Japanese physicist Masanori Yamauchi, a KEK spokesperson. 'This state may be related to the Y(3940) state discovered by Belle and might be another example of an exotic hadron containing charm quarks. We will try to confirm this state in our own Belle data.'"
whew... untheorized... (Score:5, Funny)
At first I read it as "unauthorized" and thought someone will have a lot of explaining to do.
Naming time? (Score:5, Funny)
Quote (Score:3, Funny)
"This state may be related to the Y(3940) state discovered by Belle and might be another example of an exotic hadron containing charm quarks. We will try to confirm this state in our own Belle data."
That was my yearbook quote!
Re:Naming things, publicity, and financing (Score:5, Funny)
Call it the Hope particle.
Re:whew... untheorized... (Score:5, Funny)
Damn. Now I'll have to update my authorized_particles file!
LHC (Score:4, Funny)
damn it, after all those years and all that viagra I thought I finally had my Hadron!
All your base are belong to us (Score:1, Funny)
Our stranglets we send to you as our emissaries and you destroy them. All your base are belong to us.
Re:Naming things, publicity, and financing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:whew... untheorized... (Score:4, Funny)
Damn. Now I'll have to update my authorized_particles file [slashdot.org]!
Kevin Rudd [pm.gov.au] is that you?
Re:Another example (Score:5, Funny)
Charm my ass..
He just makes fun of the special olympics.
Re:whew... untheorized... (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Jesus,
You have to be happy with the 2 authorized books I've put out.
Stop making up unauthorized stuff to confuse my creation.
-Yaweh
Re:Naming things, publicity, and financing (Score:5, Funny)
If it's related to the quark, it should be called Rom or Nog.
Re:Naming things, publicity, and financing (Score:5, Funny)
I dunno. It might cause a reunion of The Village People, if they can figure out a way to handle the extra syllable.
Re:whew... untheorized... (Score:5, Funny)
Not so fast. The scientists at Fermilab might still face a heavy fine for their crime [nobelprize.org].
I quote Willis Lamb, Nobel Laureate,
"The finder of a new elementary particle used to be rewarded by a Nobel Prize, but such a discovery now ought to be punished by a $10,000 fine."
And that was in the 50s, so with the inflation, you can only guess how heavy the fine would be now.
Re:All your base are belong to us (Score:1, Funny)
Nevermind (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Naming things, publicity, and financing (Score:5, Funny)
If it's related to the quark, it should be called Rom or Nog.
Hmm. If I was a particle physicist, I'd be leaning more toward "nagus".
Re:Naming things, publicity, and financing (Score:4, Funny)
Charm Quarks.. (Score:5, Funny)
They're magically suspicious.
Also they should rename the SciFi channel to Psi Phi.
Re:How they did it (Score:3, Funny)
Go ahead, Gordon. Insert the specimen.
Re:Naming things, publicity, and financing (Score:1, Funny)
Spacebat. In honor of.
Re:whew... untheorized... (Score:3, Funny)
I thought, "No wonder this is the first time it's been viewed".
*please don't kill me. It's a joke (although I do prefer Xvid).
Re:whew... untheorized... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Naming things, publicity, and financing (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody is going to interrupt the guys working on Y(1440).
That's because Y(1440) is a particle of no real consequence... not like Y(1441), the only unknown particle capable of stabilizing a miniature black hole long enough for it to grow by 'eating' the nearby matter.
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Favorite Fermilab particle name (Score:5, Funny)
The Ooops-Leon, which was "discovered" due to an error in reading the data. It was going to be called the upsilon. Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman was the lead on the experiment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oops-Leon [wikipedia.org]
Over my head. (Score:2, Funny)
and might be another example of an exotic hadron containing charm quarks.
And that, my friends, is why I'll stick to software engineering, thank you very much.
Authorized (Score:5, Funny)
Uh... I authorized it. Problem?
(Signed) H.B.
Re:Over my head. (Score:4, Funny)
And that, my friends, is why I'll stick to software engineering, thank you very much.
Meanwhile, in other news, researchers announced the discovery of yet another form of buffer overflow. The discovery was announced by a laboratory in Russia, where a newly discovered malformed URL was accelerated toward an IE8 target.
Re:whew... untheorized... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Charm Quarks.. (Score:1, Funny)
That is such an awesome name!
Re:Naming things, publicity, and financing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Naming things, publicity, and financing (Score:5, Funny)
I dunno. It might cause a reunion of The Village People, if they can figure out a way to handle the extra syllable.
"Y (Gross times Ten)"
Where's the extra syllable?
Re:LHC (Score:4, Funny)
Just so you know, if your hadron doesn't decay within four hours, you're supposed to call your doctor.