i know alma people from my old job. when i joined i just got the normal "welcome to health insurance" medical. those guys get a this really intense fitness/heart/psych thing every six months because of the conditions they work in. but they are otherwise normal nerds (with special lorries).
― caek, Monday, 5 September 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
oh i thought of something while i was camping.
is it possible within the laws of physics as we understand them for a "shadow Earth" as used in various SF stories to exist? i.e. a planet of equal size and mass exactly opposite to Earth's orbit and therefore undetected cos it's always on the other side of the Sun? i figure it would've been observed somehow but is that right? and if so how do we know? sums of gravitational pull or something?
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 September 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
lol were u think the shadow cabinet are from bruv
― Jolout Boy (darraghmac), Monday, 5 September 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Oxbridge
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 September 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
lol they really are
i think a shadow earth would be massive enough to be detectable via its gravitational pull on other planets (incl. earth). that's how neptune (and pluto i think) were discovered.
― caek, Monday, 5 September 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
shadow earth would be cool from an "heir and a spare" point of view. e.g. i broke the leg on an ikea cupboard this weekend. would be great to go to shadow earth and pick of a spare. instead i've got to drive all the way to ikea.
― caek, Monday, 5 September 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
would be the wrong colour
Many worlds theory ftw from a handy spare alternate reality tho
― Jolout Boy (darraghmac), Monday, 5 September 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
did anyone see this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Earth
― caek, Monday, 5 September 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
haven't seen that.
i understood that Neptune and Pluto were predicted before observed because of their gravitational effects, yeah. which means everybody who's ever used the "far side of the Sun" story shd have known better tbh
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 September 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
i did not see it either. it won the science prize at sundance, but films that do that are all reliably terrible ime.
― caek, Monday, 5 September 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
i thought it was p good although idk what kinda 'science' its supposed to be showcasing
unless you get the award just for being the type of movie nerds wld like
― Lamp, Monday, 5 September 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
i think that's how the sloan works tbh
― caek, Monday, 5 September 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
love this dude's accent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cRmbwczTC6E
― caek, Friday, 7 October 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.space.com/13401-cosmic-star-dust-complex-organic-compounds.html
caek, where we born from the stars?
― dayo, Friday, 28 October 2011 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
totes mcgotes. space is full of ppl.
― caek, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
elt (mentioned upthread) got funding green light couple of weeks ago
here it is with a train (both at 1:120 scale). lol.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7092/6989303730_52292642b8_b.jpg
― caek, Friday, 29 June 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
the god particle
― max, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
ha i assumed that would be a proper hardcore acronym rather than EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
people are excited about the higgs! although tomorrow's result is kind of an open secret like anderson cooper.
there used to be OWL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope
― caek, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
nannte man das neue Projekt etwas selbstironisch Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (Überwältigend Großes Teleskop)
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
yes they are a droll bunch
― caek, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
do you have a "take" on it
― max, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
it sounds like they are going to announce a "4-5 sigma" result (which is i guess "beyond reasonable doubt" for almost everyone except particle physicists and probably the people who do aircraft safety).
if i'm honest though, this kind of science doesn't really blow my hair back. partly that's the nature of high energy physics: you need a lot of data, and after a year you have a rough idea of where things are heading. the nature of your fuding quite rightly obliges you to release your early data, so you you release a result that is a "2-sigma" hint. and it's pretty much an open secret that a stronger statement is coming the next year (see e.g. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/best-physics-gossips-you-should-be-reading/54123/). so you lose the eureka moment of "tabletop physics", which is a shame. but really that's just an issue of presentation. some people will do what you mentioned yesterday:
The moments after the CNN anchor officially came out of the closet this morning were like an "over-it" contest on Twitter — a chance to see who could be the least surprised by the news.
but that is fronting. this is a legitimately big deal: the first really significant discovery in particle physics in maybe 20 years. the last piece of the puzzle in some sense. it would have been lots more exciting if they were like, "we can't find it. we have no clue." but they had to be sure, and being sure cost $10bn and a generation of particle physicists.
― caek, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
good article: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/may/10/crisis-big-science/?pagination=false
the og LHC
http://assets.nybooks.com/media/photo/2012/04/17/weinberg_2-051012_jpg_230x918_q85.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
Hey Caek!
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
Have you by any chance seen these Haribo Fruchtgummi Mopse?
http://www.worldofsweets.de/out/pictures/z1/Haribo-Gert-Kaefer-s-Fruchtgummi-Moepse.jpg
They have sour ones too!
http://www.worldofsweets.de/out/pictures/z1/haribo-gerd-kaefer--039--s-fruchtgummi-moepse-scharf-ingwer_z1.jpg
Apparently they are the work of this famous celebrity chef http://www.gerdkaefer.de/. I actaully ate with my parents in one of his restaurants many years ago. I believe it was this one: http://kurhaus-gastronomie.de/bistro.htm
Anyway this guy has a pug who is supposedly the most famous pug in all of Germany. His name is Sir Henry!
So, I need some of these gummis but can't get them online easily. :/ Are they readily available there?
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
ps - "mops" is pug in german
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for nybooks article link! great!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
ha i will have a look in the gummi section of my supermarket next time e! (there is a gummi section. it is next to the ritter sport section.)
― caek, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
where are you going to be working now again?
― the late great, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
so many bores complaining about comic sans in the higgs slides
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
i am in munich for the next couple of years i think xp
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:50 (eleven years ago) link
that's a nice city, i have some cousins there. one is a foxy tv presenter, i'll send you her facebook.
― the late great, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:00 (eleven years ago) link
i like foxy people
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
ugh i hate this shit
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/523589_444526022235081_226372658_n.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:06 (eleven years ago) link
there was an article on cnn headlined "what you need to know about the higgs boson" and i was hoping it would just "what everyone already thought was true is true, move along"
― the late great, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:08 (eleven years ago) link
xp
you would hope that people who pride themselves on knowing about science might have some understanding of the way popular journalism works but hey ho
― coopflaggypost (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
dear christians
it is called the god particle because it is the final piece of matter required to build the altar upon which we summon mighty cthulhu
aka "the where-is-your-god-now particle"
― the late great, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:17 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like it's kid of a a mixture of solipsism and total fucking ignorance about everything
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
kid = kind
also ungratefulness re: the $10bn particle physics got from european taxpayers (although tbf most of the people posting stuff like that are dawkins-type dilletantes seeking to align themselves with "science")
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's why i said "knowing about science" rather than being actually in the field or anything.
― coopflaggypost (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
yep. that kind of person is not a minority in science, but scientists are a minority of that kind of person.
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
Hi dere caek, refereeing question for u -- when determining stoppage time, what factors would make a referee initially call for 5 minutes and then increase that time to over 8 minutes?
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Monday, 30 July 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
stoppages within stoppage time
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
Otm. If not that then was this a game with a 4th official?
― caek, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link