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- diabolicedict, on 09/11/2008, -4/+24Let Fermilab enjoy it while it can. They will eventually lose the edge in particle physics research once LHC becomes fully operational. In addition to ILC which will not be hosted in the US.
Come to think of it, the US will also lose edge on the space station with the 5 year shuttle hiatus and astronomy research with the new optical telescope in EU. - moletimer, on 09/11/2008, -1/+19I'm waiting for the finding of the Higgs, personally, but any new particle discoveries are good discoveries, I suppose.
- Llan, on 09/11/2008, -0/+13There's a number of constraints, the most important being color neutrality.
There are 12 quarks, the 6 you named and the according antiquarks. Quarks can have color charge red, green or blue (whatever you want to name it, it's not important). Three colors add up to neutral color charge. These are baryons like the proton. Antiquarks have anticolor, so red and antired make a neutral color charge as well. These are mesons.
There might possibly be strange pentaquark hadrons... - Disgod, on 09/11/2008, -0/+12Very interesting, but it had to be incredibly boring to have to go through a lot of data before they had their eureka moment. I'm sure they were able to filter the information, but it probably took them a long time.
On a side note, I know that there are 6 types of quark top, bottom, up, down, strange, and charmed, but I was wondering if anyone knew if it is possible according to the laws of physics for these varieties to combine in any combination of 3 quarks. Such as a charmed, strange, and down quark forming a new particle or any other combination or is there only a few potential combination possible due to electrical charge, mass, etc. I've read a couple physics books, but I don't think I've ever seen an answer to that question. The only reason that I think it potentially isn't possible is that the combined charges of the quarks might have to add up to a whole charge, so no particles with a charge of 1/3, only 1, 0, -1. - inactive, on 09/11/2008, -1/+11Just because your machine is now the 2nd greatest does NOT mean it is not a useful tool by any means.
- zantos420, on 09/11/2008, -1/+10keep up?
- m0laria, on 09/11/2008, -0/+9That's ok, we'll just outsource all scientific research to India
- EmperorAwesome, on 09/11/2008, -1/+9Yay for Illinois particle research!!!
- TrellSaracen, on 09/11/2008, -1/+8What do you mean "the day after?" Yesterday's event was the equivalent of firing a tracer round - it served no purpose beyond making sure everything's *working*. LHC doesn't begin proper high energy tests until October.
- Llan, on 09/11/2008, -0/+6Lol at the bad headline, there's no upstage here. Simply found another particle of literally hundreds that was entirely expected and just had to be shown to exist. And the discovery was announced one or two weeks ago.
- michaeldpotter, on 09/11/2008, -1/+7According to this, Fermilab has a significant part in the design and building of the LHC. I'm not sure how you upstage yourself.
http://www-td.fnal.gov/LHC/FermiLHC.html - Spoomeister, on 09/11/2008, -0/+6I know this is naive, but it'd be great when we get to the point where the human race sees these things as human accomplishments, and not the U.S. or Europe or wherever these sites happen to be located and funded.
- Culyt, on 09/11/2008, -2/+7I kind of wish they would stop discovering new particles, I think there are too many particles as it is, we already have things like the 'strange quark', and the 'charm quark' why not just throw in an 'Omega b baryon'. How the hell am I supposed to learn it when they keep adding stuff.
☢ - datastorageguy, on 09/11/2008, -2/+6The Europeans are so smug sometimes. We have a godammed robot on the surface of another planet and they think a telescope will outdo us. Amazing.
I will be sure to have an American made postcard sent from Mars to you when we set up a post office there. Won't be long. - rushiku, on 09/11/2008, -3/+6Fermilab is only a few minutes away from from from from me, we hardly ever experience any temporal shifts, we hardly ever, oh, I already...huh?
/s - ryanfaith88, on 09/11/2008, -0/+3Thats the second time in the past few months. One of my previous teachers at NIU discovered another: http://www.niu.edu/northerntoday/2008/aug4/d-zero. ...
- diabolicedict, on 09/11/2008, -1/+4Yeah, no wonder why this project got delayed.
"There were also engineering difficulties encountered while building the underground cavern for the Compact Muon Solenoid, in part due to faulty parts loaned to CERN by fellow laboratories Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab.[23]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHC - grantmoore3d, on 09/11/2008, -0/+3Upstage? CERN JUST started, it's not like they're going to make any breaking discoveries right away.
- Sillywombat, on 09/11/2008, -2/+4Is it possible that this is a planned publicity hype?
Just seems rather interesting that it seems to come out the day after, especially with all the attention the LHC is getting. - digifuzz, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2I would think something like Herpes would be more of a demotivator than lack of birth-control.
- Plasmatica, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2HA-HA! @ CERN
- omgsideburns, on 09/11/2008, -1/+2+1 helm of discovered particles
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1WHAT?!
- semvhu, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1Dugg to make this article 666 Diggs and thus truly evil. Muahahaah!!!
- Cybermaul, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Sexy, sexy physics.
- Sloi, on 09/11/2008, -1/+1Holy *****, the OMEGA particle! Somebody page Starfleet...
- diabolicedict, on 09/11/2008, -1/+1Yes, like in Star Trek right?
- trollick, on 09/11/2008, -2/+1You cannot upstage anybody with something as lame as Omega b baryon.
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -2/+1They just need to hurry up and open a portal to the Xen world.
It's time to start living my dream. - SpyDerMann, on 09/11/2008, -2/+1+20 higgs gravity boots
- gyrfalcon, on 09/11/2008, -2/+1I love pictures with no comments... Oooh look shiny metal & wires!
- diabolicedict, on 09/11/2008, -5/+4It is expected that Fermilab would try hard to remain relevant. Personally, i find it amusing. LMAO
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -4/+2Let me motivate you. She is not on the Pill.
- Wargasmic, on 09/11/2008, -5/+3It must be true because I can't pull my ***** out no matter how hard I try. :D
- krytz86, on 09/11/2008, -5/+3between your mums legs
- doremon313, on 09/11/2008, -3/+1this is kind of like the other political race, the evil one gets the most press
- fishie, on 09/11/2008, -5/+2score 1 for the us of a
- protogenxl, on 09/11/2008, -6/+3CERN upstages Fermilab by killing us all.
- buddamus, on 09/11/2008, -6/+1Nancy grew up, FILLED OUT
- Sananda, on 09/11/2008, -6/+1It sucked
- physco827, on 09/11/2008, -8/+3http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldy ...
- MustacheFace, on 09/11/2008, -9/+3I want to see this particle topless. Thanks Femlab.
- jeffkee, on 09/11/2008, -9/+3I'm disappointed. None of these particle tests produced a black hole yet!!! :P
Where's the black hole we were promised? - DDION, on 09/11/2008, -8/+2Paging Nelson Muntz.....
- palehorse864, on 09/11/2008, -16/+5How doe the algorithm work by the way? I was interested to see this story become popular with 35 diggs. I would love to know how to do that. :)
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -25/+4Who ***** cares? Tell me when the LHC starts giving the Moon cancer.
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