Hard physics, beautiful bottoms
April 23rd, 2010 | Author: Zille
I am a dedicated reader of The Register (whom I hope do not mind being linked to by filthy pervert bloggers) and today my two worlds crashed, like particles in the Large Hadron Collider (Also known as “Large Hardon Collider” when news media slips up. Or is written by 15 year olds!), when I read this marvellous titbit of news, from El Reg reporting on the LHC:
Apparently the key to the business involves looking into something called “CP-violation”, which is some sort of deviance from normal behaviour on the part of antibottom beauties and their relatives – thus the more of them that can be created at the LHC, the sooner the missing 96 per cent of the universe can be tracked down – perhaps hidden in another dimension or something.
Whoooaaah! “CP-Violation”?! “Deviance from normal behaviour on the part of antibottom beauties”?!
It’s like the “boffins” at the LHC were asking for a dose of “perverting reality,” after a long night of staying up and doing complex maths.*
Either that or scientists are all pervs. Which I think is probably quite likely.
*Another thing I just have to quote is the part which nearly made me narf hot tea out my nose. I should know better than to drink my morning tea while catching up with El Reg!
By some process involving extremely hard sums and possibly some type of reinforced, extremely close-fitting hat to prevent their heads exploding (we could do with one of those just writing about it) the boffins managed to identify all of this on the mad snakes’ wedding of particle tracks pictured above and add up how much the original antibottomed beauty had weighed (5.32 Giga-electron-Volts, in case you’re wondering) pleasingly confirming that they had indeed summoned matter – and antimatter – into existence using only French and Swiss grid electricity.
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That is quite astonishing – and EXTREMELY entertaining! Can it really be coincidence?
Well, Pandora my dear, The Register is British, and I do maintain that *all* of you Brits are perverts. So far, nothing has disproved my theory!
(Or, if it has, I’ve conveniently ignored it and will continue to do so!)
Hmmmm. I note that I think all Brits are pervs, and all scientists are pervs. It’s really a compliment to both groups. Now what it says about British scientists…. [even bigger grin]
My brain is broken from trying to imagine an anti-bottom.
Speaking as a Brit, and at least something of a scientist, I can attest that at least some of us are pervs.
CP is Charge and Parity, though, sadly.
And this is where both bottom and beauty come from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_quark.
Big fan of CP violations, here.