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'
	    
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			I minored in modern physics, which means, I have enough knowledge to be.....
	    
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			this has always bothered me about particle physicists....
		
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			Yeah, always been my problem, too.
	    
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			Lederman wanted to call it "the goddamn particle," but the publisher wouldn't let him.  - 15/06/2010 06:26:56 AM
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			Well, we've been pretty bad at name stuff
	    
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			"Giant radiating dyke swarms"?!!!  - 15/06/2010 05:57:11 PM
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			It's more than a few right answers.
	    
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			did you go to school in wisconsin? cause you sound just like that guy  - 15/06/2010 07:07:49 AM
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			Yet, when determining the measure for what a planet is, Pluto vanished from the list!  - 15/06/2010 07:14:28 AM
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			right, but it's still out there in the same orbit with the same momentum and positioning  - 15/06/2010 08:45:43 AM
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			It had to lose its status or you'd have to memorize several more planets
	    
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			y'all are screwing up my "uncertainty principle" joke dammit!  *NM*
	    
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			I was disappointed they didn't make all the dwarf planets into planet planets.
	    
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			As a physicist, I find this quite interesting.
	    
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			Not quite.
	    
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			Re: Not quite.
	    
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