Just as I make my plans to go to Chicago, they destroyed it. Illinois no longer exists. Or at least that’s the kind of story the news likes to lead with. Then, after they get you hooked they explain the real story.
Tevatron at Fermilab has found something. They’re not sure what it is yet but they can’t explain it through the conventional physics model and they think it may be a new type of particle. How cool is that?
Of course, they’re not sure what it is and because they don’t want to get caught up in a false claim, a lot of the technicians have asked that their names be kept off of the published paper. Now how bad would that suck when you tell your grandkids that you were one of the guys who discovered dark matter and you are partly responsible for why we finally have flying cars and warp drives and smokeless ashtrays. And the kid looks up at you and says, “But you’re not listed on the paper grandpa.”
I’ll bet this experiment is one of the first ones duplicated in the LHC when they get it back up and running next year. Now these are exciting times we live in!
BTW: did you know it takes a whole month to warm the area they have to repair at the LHC? And then it takes another month to cool it back down to operating temperature? 1.9 Kelvin. Now that’s cold. Absolutly cold…
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