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Nero Higher Spirit

4 Jul 12 - 22:42

5 Jul 12 - 01:40

I can tell what that link is without mousing over.

It's cool that this is getting lots of media attention, but for crying out loud, please don't call it the 'God Particle'

I wish I were a cat-dragon

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5 Jul 12 - 11:59

rubberchickenben wrote:I can tell what that link is without mousing over.

It's cool that this is getting lots of media attention, but for crying out loud, please don't call it the 'God Particle'

I haven't actually seen "God partcle" in the media that much this time around. Maybe all the scientists complaining about that name have finally got through.

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Nero Higher Spirit

5 Jul 12 - 23:30

rubberchickenben wrote:I can tell what that link is without mousing over.

It's cool that this is getting lots of media attention, but for crying out loud, please don't call it the 'God Particle'

The funny thing is that no one I've talked to has even mentioned it.

No one has even posted it or mentioned it on facebook. Presumably to not look like a nerd or geek but to be honest based on other posts most people's images are already ruined.

If I had twitter, I'm sure there would be very little response to it.

Either that's my social circle, oblivious, or NOT BIGGS ENOUGH

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6 Jul 12 - 14:41

Your social circle sucks. People have been talking about it everywhere I hang out.

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FuzzyLobster Marid

7 Jul 12 - 13:18

wrote:Either that's my social circle, oblivious, or NOT BIGGS ENOUGH

XD

A week ago when they were talking about it on the front page of one of the local papers, they referred to it as "The God Particle." I laughed because it bugs people so much, it probably makes me a horrible person but whatever. They did a decent job of explaining it though, if that's any consolation. But really the media does this all the time, try and simplify things as much as possible, often sacrificing sense/other viewpoints to do so. Plus Higg's Boson does sound vaguely silly.

My social circle is mostly art students, so they just look at me like I'm crazy when I talk about stuff like this. :P

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Nero Higher Spirit

7 Jul 12 - 14:50

Sentynel wrote:Your social circle sucks. People have been talking about it everywhere I hang out.

I'm actually kinda concerned about how little discussion there is. I mean, it's not just my social circle. The media here in North America is fairly stifled. There are news articles about it, but that's mainly online. The newspapers here have very little discussion and the media shows on television from talk shows to reliable news broadcasters have had almost no coverage of it.

nathanielandbartimaeus Marid

7 Jul 12 - 18:09

Nero wrote:
Sentynel wrote:Your social circle sucks. People have been talking about it everywhere I hang out.
I'm actually kinda concerned about how little discussion there is. I mean, it's not just my social circle. The media here in North America is fairly stifled. There are news articles about it, but that's mainly online. The newspapers here have very little discussion and the media shows on television from talk shows to reliable news broadcasters have had almost no coverage of it.

I think we have had a little more coverage than that here. But hardly anything to feel happy about. And the quality is poor. >>

My social circle is somewhere in between yours and Sent's. >>

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rubberchickenben Marid

7 Jul 12 - 18:23

I wish I were a cat-dragon

FuzzyLobster Marid

8 Jul 12 - 01:06

*sigh* People, this is why research is important.

@Nero, a big part of that is the huge anti-intellectual bias in the States. Then there's the Canadian media, which seems mainly concerned with reiterating just how hot the weather is right now... But as I said, it did get at least get a front page mention in my local newspaper last week, so it's not totally hopeless. I've also heard it discussed in some of the magazines I read/podcasts I listen to.

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8 Jul 12 - 01:57

rubberchickenben wrote:

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Nero Higher Spirit

8 Jul 12 - 19:04

Sentynel wrote:

Actually a triple facepalm.

FuzzyLobster Marid

10 Jul 12 - 17:37

In less depressing news:

What the Higgs "Sounds" Like

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Apollo Marid

11 Jul 12 - 04:28

A question was posed on reddit today that interested me:

We've come up with all these great advances in science and medicine, why can't we rebuild tooth enamel yet?

n&b, you're a biologist, right? Your thoughts?

edit: grammar

nathanielandbartimaeus Marid

11 Jul 12 - 08:04

I am a geneticist. I majored in microbiology and genetics, not biology as a whole. And both don't have anything to do with teeth. So I have little idea why we can't rebuild tooth enamel. But I read that alkaline and nutritious diet could help rebuild it naturally. And acidic food could destroy it. Because enamel mostly consists of minerals right?
There are many things in the world which one thinks should be doable given our recent advances in all fields, but once one looks at the intricacies of it, it becomes obvious that there are many things out there that we don't understand.

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rubberchickenben Marid

24 Jul 12 - 22:56

Am I going to hell because my first thought when I saw the facepalms was they had the same formatting as a noob triforce?

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nathanielandbartimaeus Marid

26 Jul 12 - 04:22

rubberchickenben wrote:Am I going to hell because my first thought when I saw the facepalms was they had the same formatting as a noob triforce?

Haha xD. I wouldn't have seen it if you hadn't pointed it out. :P
And, don't worry, in our world, there is no hell.

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<@Ximenez> Sentynel: But i have a life? No. Qed.

FuzzyLobster Marid

26 Jul 12 - 14:10

Are you sure about that? I had to watch the second Twilight film in theatres.

RCB wrote:Am I going to hell because my first thought when I saw the facepalms was they had the same formatting as a noob triforce?

I actually have no idea what that means, so I doubt it.

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26 Jul 12 - 17:22

FuzzyLobster wrote:Are you sure about that? I had to watch the second Twilight film in theatres.

Oh man, that's bad. (Hey, what happens if you talk in the theatre while watching Twilight?)

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rubberchickenben Marid

27 Jul 12 - 02:48

I have the urge to go to Twilight and watch a different movie on my laptop. And somehow avoid being kicked out.

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