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Send message Joined: 15 Nov 14 Posts: 602 Credit: 24,371,321 RAC: 0 |
Evidence is mounting that a tiny subatomic particle called a muon is disobeying the laws of physics as we thought we knew them, scientists announced on Wednesday. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/science/particle-physics-muon-fermilab-brookhaven.html This is beginning to get interesting. |
Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 |
This result is graded 4.2 sigma. It needs to be 5 sigma to be accepted as real. Tullio |
Send message Joined: 15 Nov 14 Posts: 602 Credit: 24,371,321 RAC: 0 |
This result is graded 4.2 sigma. It needs to be 5 sigma to be accepted as real. Suit yourself. But how "real" do you want? How about 6 sigma? It is just a convention. |
Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 |
"Nature" says that "If the discrepancy turns out to be real then the Standard Modell will have to be updated to include new particles". I stand with "Nature". Tullio |
Send message Joined: 15 Nov 14 Posts: 602 Credit: 24,371,321 RAC: 0 |
Why bother with LHC at all? Their main goal is to update the SM. You can save the electricity by shutting it down. |
Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 |
I am a physicist. I have a degree in Theoretical Phyics obtained in Trieste in 1967. The main results of my thesis were published in the September 1967 issue of "IL Nuovo Cimento", The artticle is published under the name of Giordano Bisiacchi, my thesis advisor, and mine. Unfortunately Giordano died in a car accident in 1972 and that put an end to my career. The article has the title "SU(n,1) representation of the harmonic oscillator". Tullio |
Send message Joined: 15 Nov 14 Posts: 602 Credit: 24,371,321 RAC: 0 |
Glad to hear it. I hope you put your knowledge in the service of LHC. Eliminating the possibility of new results probably won't do it. |
Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 |
I am following what happens also in the CERN Courier. But one must not accept any theory without experimental confirmation.It took 50 years to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson.It tooks a hundred years to confirm the existence of gravitational waves.Some patience is needed. Tullio |
Send message Joined: 15 Nov 14 Posts: 602 Credit: 24,371,321 RAC: 0 |
I am following what happens also in the CERN Courier. But one must not accept any theory without experimental confirmation. I am adding another machine to help LHC investigate the implications. I trust they will know what to do with it. |
Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 |
) am dedicating most of my computing power to researches on Covid-19 by World Communiy Grid and Rosetta@home.but I still have a Linux Virtual Machine on a Windows 10 host running LHC@home on a SuSE Ttumbleweeed OS with kernel 5.11.11. It is now crunching SixTrack and CMS@home. Tullio |
Send message Joined: 15 Nov 14 Posts: 602 Credit: 24,371,321 RAC: 0 |
) am dedicating most of my computing power to researches on Covid-19 by World Communiy Grid and Rosetta@home. I am too, with two Ryzen 3950X's split between SiDock and Rosetta, not to mention WCG/OPNG on a couple of GPUs when they have any work. And several GTX 1070's on Folding, which is doing COVID work also. But they really have more candidate molecules than they can test now. It will take them a while to sort it all out. They are making good progress on Folding for example. https://covid.postera.ai/covid However, the toxicology testing is a big hangup. They need improved techniques for that. https://covid.postera.ai/covid/activity_data And then they finally need human tests. It takes longer than you would hope. |
Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 |
Dr. Mauro Giacca, former director of the International Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Triesta Research Area, and now at King's College in UK, is testing a drug called Niclosamide, used to combat intestinal pests, on 120 patients in India, where ICGEB has also a Component and another in South Africa. ICGEB is sponsored by the UN.There is an article on this in "Nature" but I don't have a subscription. Tullio |
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