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March 21, 2016 7:13 AM Subscribe
If that thing's still working then that means the sophons haven't been sent our way yet.
posted by NoMich at 8:27 AM on March 21, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by NoMich at 8:27 AM on March 21, 2016 [3 favorites]
If you rotate the camera around to just stare at the guy holding the selfie stick it becomes a radically different experience.
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:33 AM on March 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:33 AM on March 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
Huh. This is wonderful science, for sure, but I feel compelled to note that this is the 2nd pointer I've seen this morning to CERN-related stuff. Sadly, the first was about the ongoing anti-gay bigotry against the local LGTB group at CERN:
European particle physics laboratory Cern is at the centre of a homophobic row with scientists in its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group who have been the recipients of abusive emails and anti-gay graffiti plastered across its noticeboards.
One researcher has been disciplined after being seen on video surveillance cameras attacking posters, and others are thought to be involved in the anti-gay campaign as well.
According to members of the LGBT group, the abuse has been ongoing for years. Physics World was sent photographs of 14 LGBT Cern posters that had an offensive note attached, been covered with blank paper, been "crossed out" with red pen, had "No post here" or "Schwein!" (pig in German) written over them, had chunks ripped out or been torn off and crumpled. One photo shows an LGBT Cern poster with a printed-out message attached to it quoting the Old Testament book of Leviticus: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman… they shall surely be put to death."
...A bone of contention is that Cern's staff association refused to let LGBT Cern become an official club. The association recognises more than 50 others, but stated its diversity policy did not allow the "emergence of interest groups promoting particular communities".
Here's the Physics World article from earlier this month detailing the ongoing homophobia, including quotes from queer scientists at CERN about their experience trying to get the LGTB group officially recognized, and a half-dozen pics of the vandalized posters.
posted by mediareport at 9:13 AM on March 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
European particle physics laboratory Cern is at the centre of a homophobic row with scientists in its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group who have been the recipients of abusive emails and anti-gay graffiti plastered across its noticeboards.
One researcher has been disciplined after being seen on video surveillance cameras attacking posters, and others are thought to be involved in the anti-gay campaign as well.
According to members of the LGBT group, the abuse has been ongoing for years. Physics World was sent photographs of 14 LGBT Cern posters that had an offensive note attached, been covered with blank paper, been "crossed out" with red pen, had "No post here" or "Schwein!" (pig in German) written over them, had chunks ripped out or been torn off and crumpled. One photo shows an LGBT Cern poster with a printed-out message attached to it quoting the Old Testament book of Leviticus: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman… they shall surely be put to death."
...A bone of contention is that Cern's staff association refused to let LGBT Cern become an official club. The association recognises more than 50 others, but stated its diversity policy did not allow the "emergence of interest groups promoting particular communities".
Here's the Physics World article from earlier this month detailing the ongoing homophobia, including quotes from queer scientists at CERN about their experience trying to get the LGTB group officially recognized, and a half-dozen pics of the vandalized posters.
posted by mediareport at 9:13 AM on March 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
That's a gun, grumpybear69, not a selfie stick. Nice of Google to blur it for us. I'm not quite sure why we're being marched at gunpoint down the tunnel but his blank, expressionless face is terrifying. Perhaps we are to be fuel for the collider.
posted by Nelson at 9:28 AM on March 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Nelson at 9:28 AM on March 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
Perhaps we are to be fuel for the collider.
No. It's WORSE than that!
Right from the article:
Take a look now, because a new discovery may be on the horizon: The detection of extra photons... that will cause the world to be blown to smithereens when next the LHC is activated!
*seriously awaiting new discoveries*
posted by BlueHorse at 9:56 AM on March 21, 2016
No. It's WORSE than that!
Right from the article:
Take a look now, because a new discovery may be on the horizon: The detection of extra photons... that will cause the world to be blown to smithereens when next the LHC is activated!
*seriously awaiting new discoveries*
posted by BlueHorse at 9:56 AM on March 21, 2016
El Psy Kongroo.
posted by rifflesby at 9:58 AM on March 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by rifflesby at 9:58 AM on March 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
The diphoton excess the article is referring to has been, ahem, much studied in the last few months.
(Upshot: a smallish bump seen in the data by both major detectors at CERN; in an individual detector wouldn't be big enough to cause interest but it's seen in both; we'll know later this year if the bumps are growing as more data is collected (and thus possibly of actual interest) or if they were just a statistical fluctuation. As a result there were immediately many many articles , many many citations for those articles, purporting to provide a physical understanding of this bump. Some (most?) of them are of questionable long term value, many were overly rushed to be put up, and it may just be a whole lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Or maybe the bump is real. We'll know soon enough either way.)
On the other hand, tour is cool. Yay, tour. Thanks for posting!
And lastly-- the 3d look around is nifty, but the interface is kind of unfortunate-- I have to click within the compass to look around, but if I accidentally click just outside it, the video pauses. Grr.
posted by nat at 10:19 AM on March 22, 2016
(Upshot: a smallish bump seen in the data by both major detectors at CERN; in an individual detector wouldn't be big enough to cause interest but it's seen in both; we'll know later this year if the bumps are growing as more data is collected (and thus possibly of actual interest) or if they were just a statistical fluctuation. As a result there were immediately many many articles , many many citations for those articles, purporting to provide a physical understanding of this bump. Some (most?) of them are of questionable long term value, many were overly rushed to be put up, and it may just be a whole lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Or maybe the bump is real. We'll know soon enough either way.)
On the other hand, tour is cool. Yay, tour. Thanks for posting!
And lastly-- the 3d look around is nifty, but the interface is kind of unfortunate-- I have to click within the compass to look around, but if I accidentally click just outside it, the video pauses. Grr.
posted by nat at 10:19 AM on March 22, 2016
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