so they're doing it right, then.
Posted by Andy™ on Nov 13, 2002 at 18:31
(63.68.35.70)Re: ...er...back to the drawing board.... (Sparrow)
The atomic collision, as expected, produced temperatures tens of thousands of times hotter than the core of the hottest star, a thermodynamic pinnacle unmatched since microseconds after the Big Bang.
*cough*FUELSOURCE*cough*
Most of this article seems concerned with how this new experimental (imagine that... EXPERIMENTATION... novel...) data conflicts with their earlier, hypothetical data.
I, frankly, don't see the problem. Instead of trying to fit the experiment results with their (apparently faulty) un-tested model, why not simply develop the new model around the information derived from this and future experimental data? "Back to the drawing board" is the best way to handle this.
"We've been handed some new pieces of the puzzle and we're trying to figure out how this new picture fits together." Manly said.It must be irritating to be one of the men and women who're trying to piece this puzzle together and keep having someone come along and kick one of their table legs down.
The mysterious data could help unlock some big cosmic secrets. Cooling plasma might be responsible for giving matter its mass, just as condensing steam produces water.
Is condensing steam not already water?
The collider includes 1,600 miles of superconducting wire, a 2.4-mile circumference ring large enough to be seen from space and thousands of magnets bathed in liquid helium at a temperature only 4.5 degrees above Absolute Zero.
Sounds like the beginnings of one of those spiffy "build a radio" projects... Well, a big, chilly radio.