The music of the quarks

[mike coleman]

hey folks, dead serious- I don't mean to ever get in Mike's way- I've simply
been wanting to throw towelie in somewhere but I feel like I'm butting in
with his stuff and I apologize-
Arjan, where are you??
Chris, etc.....


On 6/24/10, mike coleman <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Now how can anything the LHC presents come anywhere near the marvel of the
> RG-400 smart towel??
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> On 6/24/10, Owen O'Neill <owen.01 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Nice! I should stay more interested in what's going on at the LHC. 9
>> years ago I worked at a place where they were designing and building
>> instrumention equipment for the collider, and it was the coolest job I
>> ever had. I got to use a comparitively "little" accelator, Large for
>> 1940. Very large magnet that would tug at anything ferromagnetic you
>> were holding from 5m away, even rip it away--- but it got used as a
>> proton beam source for verifying the "heavy ion" radiation damage
>> survival of components used in instrumentation that's monitoring the
>> muon drift tubes. Most of these tests that were a huge part of my job
>> I knew were completely pointless but that's beurocracy <sp> in a
>> worldwide colaboration to build a Large Hadron Collider.
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>> Also, some peices of instrumentation equipment have labels on the side
>> that say "Hawkwind", camoflauged amidst all the other useless labels
>> saying "power", "standby" "1,2,3,4,5", "data out"...etc.
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>> Working on pointless stuff, also being coerced to work inneficiently
>> then get called inneficient as a result...... I s--t you not: (I think
>> I've said it before on this list) there was a component (Texas
>> Instruments?) called REG104-GA. It's a "Low Drop-out Voltage
>> Regulator", with lots of bells and whistles, the most at the time,
>> like some circuit designer's pathetic little wet dream. If not for the
>> Captain Lockheed I'd never have ordered this embarrassing component
>> for evaluation. It was a stupid rectangular chip with 8 pins, looking
>> nothing like a voltage regulator should look like. You could just KNOW
>> somehow it's going to be the worst candidate for a bad-weather
>> radiation environment. If radiation criteria was realistic for
>> electronics in proximity to the LHC...f*cking.;/ --- what I'm getting
>> at is I could have effectively caused an important circuit to FAIL, I
>> bet right when some really important "collision infomation" needed to
>> get analyzed. Because of MY POWER, set back PHYSICS.
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>> By the way, did you know that much of scientific research involves
>> people successfully getting funding for their shit, skewing everything
>> they say to make their work sound promising, making results look as
>> such?
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>> Not as much in Physics I don't think, but that's only because it's
>> very accountable. What's the most unscrupulous type of science?
>> Biology? Oh and especially Cancer reseasrch, with the money there.
>> Who's a Biologist here? You've got something to hide. Everyone who
>> makes money does. Tell us your stories about phony research you know
>> of, maybe were involved with as a student.
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