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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.

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

goddess you sexist pig

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

And was resistant to rat poison

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

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

Who created that particle?

The scientists at CERN. :D

LOL


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Water in space, that's just crazy.

Furthest, Largest Mass of Water Discovered Around Quasar | Geekosystem

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...

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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.