Thursday 29 September 2011
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Sunday 25 September 2011
Thursday 22 September 2011
OMG Time Travel!
Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
By Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
The neutrinos are fired deep under the Italian Apennines at Gran Sasso
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Neutrino beam reveals 'new aspect' of cosmos
Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.
Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.
The result - which threatens to upend a century of physics - will be put online for scrutiny by other scientists.
In the meantime, the group says it is being very cautious about its claims.
"We tried to find all possible explanations for this," said report author Antonio Ereditato of the Opera collaboration.
"We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't," he told BBC News.
"When you don't find anything, then you say 'Well, now I'm forced to go out and ask the community to scrutinise this.'"
Caught speeding?
The speed of light is the Universe's ultimate speed limit, and much of modern physics - as laid out in part by Albert Einstein in his special theory of relativity - depends on the idea that nothing can exceed it.
Thousands of experiments have been undertaken to measure it ever more precisely, and no result has ever spotted a particle breaking the limit.
But Dr Ereditato and his colleagues have been carrying out an experiment for the last three years that seems to suggest neutrinos have done just that.
Neutrinos come in a number of types, and have recently been seen to switch spontaneously from one type to another.
The team prepares a beam of just one type, muon neutrinos, sending them from Cern to an underground laboratory at Gran Sasso in Italy to see how many show up as a different type, tau neutrinos.
In the course of doing the experiments, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up a few billionths of a second sooner than light would over the same distance.
The team measured the travel times of neutrino bunches some 15,000 times, and have reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery.
But the group understands that what are known as "systematic errors" could easily make an erroneous result look like a breaking of the ultimate speed limit, and that has motivated them to publish their measurements.
"My dream would be that another, independent experiment finds the same thing - then I would be relieved," Dr Ereditato said.
But for now, he explained, "we are not claiming things, we want just to be helped by the community in understanding our crazy result - because it is crazy".
"And of course the consequences can be very serious."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
By Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
The neutrinos are fired deep under the Italian Apennines at Gran Sasso
Continue reading the main story
Related Stories
Particle 'flips to all flavours'
Light-speed trick in stock trades
Neutrino beam reveals 'new aspect' of cosmos
Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.
Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.
The result - which threatens to upend a century of physics - will be put online for scrutiny by other scientists.
In the meantime, the group says it is being very cautious about its claims.
"We tried to find all possible explanations for this," said report author Antonio Ereditato of the Opera collaboration.
"We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't," he told BBC News.
"When you don't find anything, then you say 'Well, now I'm forced to go out and ask the community to scrutinise this.'"
Caught speeding?
The speed of light is the Universe's ultimate speed limit, and much of modern physics - as laid out in part by Albert Einstein in his special theory of relativity - depends on the idea that nothing can exceed it.
Thousands of experiments have been undertaken to measure it ever more precisely, and no result has ever spotted a particle breaking the limit.
But Dr Ereditato and his colleagues have been carrying out an experiment for the last three years that seems to suggest neutrinos have done just that.
Neutrinos come in a number of types, and have recently been seen to switch spontaneously from one type to another.
The team prepares a beam of just one type, muon neutrinos, sending them from Cern to an underground laboratory at Gran Sasso in Italy to see how many show up as a different type, tau neutrinos.
In the course of doing the experiments, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up a few billionths of a second sooner than light would over the same distance.
The team measured the travel times of neutrino bunches some 15,000 times, and have reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery.
But the group understands that what are known as "systematic errors" could easily make an erroneous result look like a breaking of the ultimate speed limit, and that has motivated them to publish their measurements.
"My dream would be that another, independent experiment finds the same thing - then I would be relieved," Dr Ereditato said.
But for now, he explained, "we are not claiming things, we want just to be helped by the community in understanding our crazy result - because it is crazy".
"And of course the consequences can be very serious."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
Wednesday 21 September 2011
My Blockbuster Haul!
Got 8 movies today for very reasonable prices at the Blockbuster, "Going out of Business", Sale!
I got:
2001
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Pan's Labyrinth
Reservoir Dogs
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Goodfellas
Gangs of New York
Casablanca
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Monday 19 September 2011
Saturday 17 September 2011
Thursday 15 September 2011
Wednesday 14 September 2011
My YouTube Channel
Be sure to check it out at http://www.youtube.com/user/hazatude
I try and get a couple of videos up a week covering any and all topics from my diabetes management to home hair cutting! I make all my videos a little silly and I hope a lot funny so come on by and enjoy yourself!
I try and get a couple of videos up a week covering any and all topics from my diabetes management to home hair cutting! I make all my videos a little silly and I hope a lot funny so come on by and enjoy yourself!
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Sunday 11 September 2011
Tonight's Movie
Spartacus: Blood and Sand
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Andy Whitfield, the 39-year-old star of the cable series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," has died.
Manager Sam Maydew says Whitfield died Sunday of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Sydney, Australia.
Whitfield's wife Vashti in a statement called her husband a "beautiful young warrior" who died on a "sunny Sydney morning" in the "arms of his loving wife."
Whitfield - who was born in Wales and lived in Australia - was a virtual unknown when he was cast as the title hero in "Spartacus," a hit original series for the Starz network that made waves with its graphic violence and sexuality.
Whitfield was preparing for the second season when he was diagnosed 18 months ago.
In January the network announced that another Australian actor, Liam McIntyre, would take over the role.
Saturday 10 September 2011
Friday 9 September 2011
Wednesday 7 September 2011
510-943-3040 Scam
Do not fall for this. They call you and tell you that they are from Windows. They then tell you that your computer is sending out viruses and ask you to disable your firewall and share your computer with them so they can fix this. It's all a SCAM.
If you call them on it, they can be quite rude with you. The info I got on them was:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-510-943-3040
http://www.callercenter.com/510-943-3040.html
If you call them on it, they can be quite rude with you. The info I got on them was:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-510-943-3040
http://www.callercenter.com/510-943-3040.html
Tuesday 6 September 2011
Monday 5 September 2011
Labour Day Classic?
It's going to be a good game but vs. anyone but the Argos, they shouldn't be allowed to call it that. Just my two cents.
And the Cats DESTROY Montreal 41-21!
And the Cats DESTROY Montreal 41-21!
Sunday 4 September 2011
Saturday 3 September 2011
Friday 2 September 2011
Thursday 1 September 2011
Listening to some CSNY tonight
Makes my heart warm. "Helpless" brings me to tears every time I hear it.
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