Ooops, that should be 'spin', not 'top spin'.
On Apr 26, 2010, at 6:25 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > Adrie, > > I had heard that the proof, at Fermilab, for the top quark came from six > of six million trials. I also heard that the existence of the Higgs boson > was hypothesized because of the appearance of unwanted zeros in > certain calculations.. It is not comforting be at the mercy of such > hearsay, but at the same time I can sense the excitement. > > While I like the excitement, I am very skeptical (rightfully) because I've > also been exposed to lectures, interviews and articles on the > 'science wars' of the 1990's. Add to this how horrifying it is to hear > that the calculation for top spin is not just mathematics but something > "real". Real? In what sense real? > > Looking at the bubbles in my half-filled teacup. It seems like a tiny > cauldron of chaotic ideas. It might not be so farfetched to predict that > there are some big changes coming, a new world-view even. > > > Marsha, > the knower of nothing. > > > > > On Apr 25, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Fam. Kintziger-Karaca wrote: > >> hi, Marsha >> >> bubble chambers can be as tiny as a teacup. >> they use boiling water to make the path of the partikel visible. >> >> The Kamiokande-experiment uses extremely purified water to do the same. >> And the scale of the detektor is very extreme. >> >> They had a very big accident with imploding Pmt's, after witch the reactor >> was >> downscaled, the price was too high to repair. >> >> It is used now in a lesser form, less Pmt's.But it still works. >> > > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
