Interesting News In Science Today

[jyl]

Cool science news

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/184775/20110721/mutant-mouse-resistant-poison.htm

A type of mouse, resistant to the rat poison wafarin, were discovered in a German bakery. Hope they don't spread. Better keep my cats.

http://www.geekosystem.com/furthest-largest-water/

A cloud of water vapor, 140 trillion times the mass of our oceans, is in orbit around a distant quasar. Well, it was 12 billion years ago. perhaps it has turned into a star, lived, and burned out by now.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/07/hints-of-a-light-higgs-in-lhc-data.ars

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider may have found evidence of the long theorized Higgs Boson particle, which is believed to cause other particles to have mass.

[RWebb]

the Higgs item belongs in PARF b/c it is the god particle!

[jyl]

goddess you sexist pig

[RWebb]

I used to date a woman who renamed herself after -- not one -- but two goddesses.

[jyl]

And was resistant to rat poison

[RWebb]

unhhh - let's just say that I did not run that experiment

[Jim Richards]

Some say she was an air head, but we now know that she was all wet.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by RWebb

the Higgs item belongs in PARF b/c it is the god particle!

Who created that particle?

[sammyg2]

[AirKuhl]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Who created that particle?

The scientists at CERN.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by AirKuhl

The scientists at CERN.

LOL

[AirKuhl]

[sammyg2]

[kach22i]

Water in space, that's just crazy.

Furthest, Largest Mass of Water Discovered Around Quasar | Geekosystem

Interestingly, water is not uncommon throughout the universe, though the amount of water around this quasar alone is estimated to be 4,000 times the water in the Milky Way.

[RWebb]

my (limited) understanding of this is that after going thru the data they have excluded certain regions where the Higgs boson might exist, and that leaves only a limited region for it

if they don't (eventually?) find it in the, ah, "leftover regions" then that would indicate some "interesting issues" with the standard model.

I'm not a physicist, and it wuz many kalpas of eons ago that I wuz a physics major.
- maybe Mike can explain it - I'm not sure how many Hadron-o-philes are on this bbs...

[sammyg2]

[RWebb]

at least 2 big scientific discoveries were made while drinking beer

- cloud chambers (particle physics)

- and ideas for DNA structure

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by RWebb

at least 2 big scientific discoveries were made while drinking beer

- cloud chambers (particle physics)

- and ideas for DNA structure

I've come up with plenty more than that, I just forgot them by the next morning.

One time I wrote the ideas down but the next day I couldn't figure out what language I used.