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Fermilab 'closing in' on the God particle
- weegee 18y agoSaw a recent documentary "Independent Lens" that was about the Fermi Lab. Said it had lost funding a while ago. Good to hear it didn't completely shut down.
- pasbesoin 18y agoThere was a last minute, partial rescue of funding, which had as at least one focus a personal contribution in the millions of dollars (5MM, I seem to recall?). Compared to the Federal budget, the amounts involved weren't even the husk on a discarded peanut. Penny wise, pound foolish.
- lnguyen 18y agoI remember when the funding for the SSC got pulled. Had actually been to Waxahachie shortly after they started digging and was doing a summer internship at Fermilab. Everyone was fighting to get it funded and built in their backyard but as soon an actual site was decided, it suddenly became a boondoggle, pork, or what have you by those very same people.
- weegee 18y agomore info - http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/atomsmashers/ http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/atomsmashers/
- CalmQuiet 18y agoSo Fermilab's chances of being first (maybe in next year) in what they claim "is not a race with" CERN's LHC are improved by the LHC's injuries... The fact that we must... keep... waiting... isn't news. Now let's get back to the office pool: Will the Higg boson "God particle" show... ? She's female ? ? He's black ? ? Just like Michelangelo showed us ?
- jcromartie 18y agoThe idea that there is a single fundamental particle blows my mind more than a model of matter being made of an infinite series of smaller and smaller components.
- awt 18y agoI must say I don't like the name of this particle.
- RK 18y agoMy understanding is that Fermilab may not have high enough baseline statistics right now to be "convincing", even if they do find good candidate events. The LHC should be able to produce much higher statistics and thus have a better chance of finding the Higgs.