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 R. Kuipers Send message Joined: 7 Jan 08 Posts: 5 Credit: 67,499 RAC: 0 |
Does someone know what happend if mine piece of crunching-work lead to an important discovery for CERN? Will I get an e-mail from CERN that is was mine contribution that leads to this discovery or will I never find out that is was mine part of the job? Will I get an trophy from the board of directors of CERN of goes someone else show of with mine works? Who can tell my? Thanks for informing my. R. Kuipers |
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Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
Well I am sorry to say the LHC is a huge project with tens of thousands of conributors. We are actually studying the stability of the beam in an upgraded version of the accelerator. Ther will not be a Eureka moment really and anyway rewards and prizes will go to the bosses or just possibly teams. Every little helps in our particular work and I hope you will continue to participate. Wtach for news Wednesday onwards when CERN will hold a press conference and Webcast concerning recent progress on the search for the Higgs boson. Regards. Eric. |
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Send message Joined: 22 Sep 08 Posts: 2 Credit: 4,704,969 RAC: 0  
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I have just read a preliminary announcement addressing your reference to the Higgs Boson. A fabulous achievement, the culmination of years of theoretical work coupled with tenacious physical experiments. It would be a perfect event if distributed computing efforts associated with the work at LHC played even a small contribution to the discovery. Since the onset of SETI@home it has been my belief that Distributed Computing will one day be recognized as an important milestone in the history of science, a linchpin of scientific method. Now maybe we can move on to the other 96% of the universe! bill brandt-gasuen |
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R. Kuipers Send message Joined: 7 Jan 08 Posts: 5 Credit: 67,499 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Erik for informing me. I understand that there are too many contributers. I have seen the press conference wensday. Its fantastic. I will contineu wit my help. Its very important what you do on CERN. I have visit several time's the Prevessin-site and the Geneve-site whene my brother Jos Kuipers was working there. I hope I will be able to visit it one's again. R. Kuipers, Holland |
 Send message Joined: 18 Sep 04 Posts: 163 Credit: 1,682,370 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Erik for informing me. I understand that there are too many contributers. Press conference was amazing -- although I did understand next to nothing -- the moment where the slide w/ "5 sigma" was shown and the audience started applauding furiously was worth watching! And thinking of the fact that we helped building the LHC -- if only by calculating some beam trajectories -- that's just awsome! edit: Higgs Boson Memes Michael Team Linux Users Everywhere 
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