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this has always bothered me about particle physicists.... moondog Send a noteboard - 15/06/2010 05:32:26 AM
i once pointed out to a guy i was in school with about how every time particle physicists can't quite explain something, they decide it must be done by an as-yet-to-be-discovered particle. he said there have been a few of those that were right so the theory must be working but i always found it to be kind of a cop-out. yeah, the math describes *something* but i can't believe that every damn thing has to have a particle (or multiple particles) attached to it. meh, if they find all 5 particles i'll be supremely impressed with them. but i'm sure they'll get close to finding one or two then decide that there are a few more particles that describe the particles they haven't found yet
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US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles' everynametaken - 15/06/2010 04:04:14 AM 913 Views
Gher - 15/06/2010 04:11:11 AM 501 Views
I minored in modern physics, which means, I have enough knowledge to be..... trzaska2000 - 15/06/2010 04:45:35 AM 492 Views
this has always bothered me about particle physicists.... moondog - 15/06/2010 05:32:26 AM 528 Views
Down with particle-of-the-gaps thinking! Ghavrel - 15/06/2010 05:38:20 AM 510 Views
Yeah, always been my problem, too. Joel - 15/06/2010 05:44:30 AM 453 Views
Lederman wanted to call it "the goddamn particle," but the publisher wouldn't let him. Dreaded Anomaly - 15/06/2010 06:26:56 AM 476 Views
Well, we've been pretty bad at name stuff Isaac - 15/06/2010 08:52:09 AM 490 Views
"Giant radiating dyke swarms"?!!! Joel - 15/06/2010 05:57:11 PM 483 Views
Oh, yes, and it's often accompanied by Dickite Isaac - 15/06/2010 06:18:35 PM 463 Views
When giant radiating dike swarms get hot they produce dickite? Joel - 16/06/2010 12:35:53 AM 503 Views
This I can believe. Joel - 15/06/2010 06:02:37 PM 413 Views
It's more than a few right answers. Dreaded Anomaly - 15/06/2010 06:26:35 AM 614 Views
did you go to school in wisconsin? cause you sound just like that guy moondog - 15/06/2010 07:07:49 AM 467 Views
Yet, when determining the measure for what a planet is, Pluto vanished from the list! Birdeye - 15/06/2010 07:14:28 AM 505 Views
right, but it's still out there in the same orbit with the same momentum and positioning moondog - 15/06/2010 08:45:43 AM 605 Views
It had to lose its status or you'd have to memorize several more planets Isaac - 15/06/2010 08:57:20 AM 516 Views
y'all are screwing up my "uncertainty principle" joke dammit! *NM* moondog - 15/06/2010 09:19:11 AM 204 Views
Sorry Totally missed it *NM* Isaac - 15/06/2010 09:45:23 AM 249 Views
I was disappointed they didn't make all the dwarf planets into planet planets. Darth_Katie - 16/06/2010 01:00:51 PM 503 Views
As a physicist... Dreaded Anomaly - 15/06/2010 06:13:01 AM 604 Views
Cool. Darth_Katie - 16/06/2010 01:01:34 PM 510 Views
I feel ya! *NM* everynametaken - 17/06/2010 12:18:30 AM 272 Views
As a physicist, I find this quite interesting. jiggy - 16/06/2010 09:08:15 PM 599 Views
Not quite. Dreaded Anomaly - 16/06/2010 09:57:18 PM 596 Views
Re: Not quite. jiggy - 16/06/2010 10:22:14 PM 613 Views
Nerds! everynametaken - 17/06/2010 12:19:57 AM 436 Views
Re: Not quite. Dreaded Anomaly - 17/06/2010 12:45:06 AM 668 Views
Re: Not quite. jiggy - 17/06/2010 08:23:10 AM 586 Views
Eight minus three is five Floffe - 17/06/2010 09:19:46 AM 428 Views
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