muon* Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 Nobody is trying to find the face of God, at least not real scientists! What has any of that directly got to do with science news?
oztheatre Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 10 minutes ago, muon* said: Nobody is trying to find the face of God, at least not real scientists! What has any of that directly got to do with science news? The god particle... CERN....
muon* Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 (edited) 45 minutes ago, oztheatre said: The god particle... CERN.... Call it by It's real name and not the joke name it was given. It's the Higgs boson theorized in 1964 and discovered in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Edit: The God particle comes from the nick name from a published book on the subject, the author wanted to call it the goddamn particle but the publishers convinced him otherwise. It's not the name used for it in the scientific community. Edited April 30, 2021 by muon*
oztheatre Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, muon* said: Call it by It's real name and not the joke name it was given. It's the Higgs boson theorized in 1964 and discovered in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. I'm fully aware of the name. Leon Lederman who won a nobel prize in physics is to blame for that. He named it the 'God particle'.... Damn he was old.. lived a long life.. God bless his particles
Volunteer sir sanders zingmore Posted April 30, 2021 Volunteer Posted April 30, 2021 13 minutes ago, oztheatre said: I'm fully aware of the name. Leon Lederman who won a nobel prize in physics is to blame for that. He named it the 'God particle'.... Damn he was old.. lived a long life.. God bless his particles My understanding is that he called it the “goddam particle” because it was so goddam elusive
muon* Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, sir sanders zingmore said: My understanding is that he called it the “goddam particle” because it was so goddam elusive That was what he wanted to title the book, but was convinced by the publisher to change it. Very unfortunate move as it turned out. Edited April 30, 2021 by muon* typo goddamit!
oztheatre Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 3 minutes ago, sir sanders zingmore said: My understanding is that he called it the “goddam particle” because it was so goddam elusive ha yes, but his book was called the God particle.
oztheatre Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 (edited) There's a heap more with the same title too. Edited April 30, 2021 by oztheatre
muon* Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 And numbies have latch onto it to make it mean something it doesn't ever since. I'll be with TDD.
oztheatre Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 3 minutes ago, muon* said: And numbies have latch onto it to make it mean something it doesn't ever since. I'll be with TDD. Sure they do. TDD - test driven development?
Volunteer sir sanders zingmore Posted April 30, 2021 Volunteer Posted April 30, 2021 34 minutes ago, oztheatre said: TDD - test driven development? I don’t think that’s what he means....
GregWormald Posted May 1, 2021 Posted May 1, 2021 On 30/04/2021 at 11:56 AM, LHC said: I wish there is science research on conflict resolution. We could use some of that right now. I'm not sure about conflict resolution but the research on negotiation seems relevant. Getting to Yes—Roger Fisher & William Ury Getting past No—Willam Ury 2
LHC Posted May 2, 2021 Posted May 2, 2021 On 30/04/2021 at 3:25 PM, cwt said: Without morphing into a political thread ;ask a good % of US republicans and they would be worried Bill Gates is behind a global vaccine conspiracy Thats the sheeple standard out there ; as predictable as the media scaremongering about the incredibly small chances of adverse astra zeneca reactions even compared to normal flu shots ; and this is the sad result There are a lot of Bill Gates conspiracies that are dismissible. However there is a real issue of whether the vaccine patent should be shared freely with the Developing world. There were reports that Oxford University was happy to share their research freely as open source, but was prevented by the Gates Foundation from doing so. Should science knowledge be freely shared? In a recent interview Bill Gates said "No" to sharing vaccine patent with developing countries citing safety issues with vaccine manufacturing. He said their factories are not certified. If people are upset that MQA is not transparent and not freely sharing their codec patent, then shouldn't same line of argument be applied to vaccine patent as well? There is a real parallel here.
muon* Posted May 2, 2021 Posted May 2, 2021 No parallel, MQA will not kill people if applied wrong. We hope I can understand Bills concerns in that context.
LHC Posted May 2, 2021 Posted May 2, 2021 (edited) 37 minutes ago, muon* said: No parallel, MQA will not kill people if applied wrong. We hope I can understand Bills concerns in that context. Ok, then how about sharing MS Windows source code freely? Actually windows is close to free if people are happy to use the third parties activation keys for sale over the internet. Edited May 2, 2021 by LHC
LHC Posted May 2, 2021 Posted May 2, 2021 (edited) 43 minutes ago, muon* said: No parallel, MQA will not kill people if applied wrong. This is true, but MQA also cannot be used to save lives in a pandemic. So why are people so upset about MQA? Edited May 2, 2021 by LHC
cwt Posted May 2, 2021 Posted May 2, 2021 1 hour ago, LHC said: In a recent interview Bill Gates said "No" to sharing vaccine patent with developing countries citing safety issues with vaccine manufacturing. He said their factories are not certified. If people are upset that MQA is not transparent and not freely sharing their codec patent, then shouldn't same line of argument be applied to vaccine patent as well? There is a real parallel here. Wasnt aware of that attitude of his ; if anything the poor performance of the crap vaccine China and Russia is peddling to gain influence and thanks from desperate countries shows free licensing is the way to go here
muon* Posted May 2, 2021 Posted May 2, 2021 36 minutes ago, LHC said: Ok, then how about sharing MS Windows source code freely? Actually windows is close to free if people are happy to use the third parties activation keys for sale over the internet. This is commercial politics not science.
muon* Posted May 2, 2021 Posted May 2, 2021 32 minutes ago, LHC said: This is true, but MQA also cannot be used to save lives in a pandemic. So why are people so upset about MQA? What does it have to do with science news?
LHC Posted May 2, 2021 Posted May 2, 2021 1 hour ago, muon* said: What does it have to do with science news? Thats fair enough. Lets get back on the topic of science news. 1
muon* Posted May 9, 2021 Posted May 9, 2021 Something for science lovers, a discussion around human and animal brains, hope others enjoy it as much as I did. 2
aussievintage Posted May 10, 2021 Posted May 10, 2021 11 hours ago, muon* said: Something for science lovers, a discussion around human and animal brains, hope others enjoy it as much as I did. Now THAT was good. Loved the "liquid brain" concept - and I don't mean the soup 1
GregWormald Posted May 10, 2021 Posted May 10, 2021 The youtube videos of "Billi Speaks" show a woman teaching her cat to use adaptive technology designed for deaf people, to communicate in english. Billi is now up to approximately 30 words and 3-4 concepts (including time!) in one communication, as well as seemingly to manipulate her owner.
muon* Posted May 10, 2021 Posted May 10, 2021 This one is for educational interest, not for discussion here.
muon* Posted May 10, 2021 Posted May 10, 2021 On 09/05/2021 at 11:22 PM, muon* said: Something for science lovers, a discussion around human and animal brains, hope others enjoy it as much as I did. Have any Star Trek fans recognised the moderator?
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