Quark-Gluon Plasma Observed At LHC 155
Canadian_Daemon writes "A phase of matter created moments after the Big Bang is thought to have been detected at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. 'Striking' evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians, at the facility near Geneva, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced Friday."
Quark-Gluon Plasma Observed At LHC (Score:4, Funny)
I'm glad the OP mentioned that Canadians had a hand in this. Otherwise I would have assumed they didn't.
Quark Glue-ons (Score:1, Funny)
A Ferengi with a Glue-on observed moments after the big bang?
Its like horrible geek porn. I must retreat to the relative artistic successes of the Star Wars Christmas Special.
Re:Quark Glue-ons (Score:4, Funny)
+1 funny
Eh! (Score:4, Funny)
Canadian observes quark-gluon plasma, then immediately apologizes.
Re:Offensive (Score:2, Funny)
What about my an idiot?
Quark-Gluon Plasma? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:As a Canadian, I like to watch... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm thinking that except if they actually injected Canadians into the LHC pipes and then collided them at high speed, this whole Canadian bias of the news is unjustified.
IT'S A CANADIAN CONSPIRACY
Re:Including Canadians, and... (Score:3, Funny)
No I think it's reasonable to point it out explicitly. If they had just said "Observed by a team of researchers", you would fairly quickly assume that there wouldn't be any Canadians in that team, for obvious reasons.
Just like if a blind guy had ascended Mount Everest, the news article would read "A team of mountaineers, including a blind guy, ...".
Re:As a Canadian, I like to watch... (Score:5, Funny)
Canadians tend to be skeptics.
Oh, I don't know about that.
It Must Be Pointed Out (Score:3, Funny)
Hundreds of thousands converged in South Africa for the World Cup opening ceremonies, including Canadians.
Overwhelming amounts of aid have poured in to Haiti from around the globe, including Canadians.
'Striking' evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians.
second city attitude. (Score:3, Funny)
It is so sad. It is a place of contrasts, the sally-fields-like desperation for acknowledgement against the smugness of not being Americans (even though nobody else can tell).
Re:Offensive (Score:4, Funny)
"This experimental setup was so simple, that your grandmother could understand it."
Two choices, pick one or both:
This experimental setup was so simple, even the president could understand it.
This experimental setup was so simple, even the former president could understand it.
Fixed that for em'.
Re:Thanks (Score:2, Funny)
Practical usage? (Score:3, Funny)
So, when will I be able to buy a Quark-Gluon Plasma TV?
Re:Thanks (Score:3, Funny)
List of authors (Score:2, Funny)
The list of authors is longer than the paper itself. And it's in alphabetical order. At least, there surely is no fight as to know who will be first author. ^^
Re:Quark-Gluon Plasma Observed At LHC (Score:3, Funny)
Eh? (Score:1, Funny)
'Striking' evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians, at the facility near Geneva...
There's three ways to interpret that.
1) Canadians were present during the observation.
2) The quark-gluon plasma said, "Hey! What'cha looking at buddy?".
or
3) Canadians have spread so far, they've now overrun the LHC, and our only chance to find particles that repel them is lost!
Re:Am I missing something? (Score:2, Funny)
I did read TFA. It didn't really help...
"Striking" evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians...
"People have been searching for evidence of this for decades," Canadian physicist Richard Teuscher said Friday...
The results of the experiment... were accepted Friday morning for publication in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, less than 24 hours after it was submitted, said Teuscher, a research scientist at the Canadian Institute for Particle Physics and a physics professor at the University of Toronto....
Peter Krieger, an associate professor of physics at the University of Toronto, said a detected called the forward calorimeter built in Canada...
Plus a nice little sidebar called "Canadian content," which says:
Canadians make up more than 150 of the researchers involved in ATLAS. They have mainly been involved with designing, building, and operating detectors called liquid argon calorimeters...
Basically, what I got from reading TFA is that man, Canada has a serious ego problem. And yes, it's a groundbreaking discovery, but damn that's distracting.