Why not wishing the money coming from somewhere else where the spent money is hundred times bigger for the same amount time, like, saying, from defense?
2012/9/14 MarkI-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net> > Daniel asks:**** > > “Anyway, why is big science bad?”**** > > ** ** > > Had the hundreds of billions of dollars spend on hot fusion and massive > particle colliders been put into material science, nanotech, graphene, > alternative fuels, etc., we would probably be much closer to sustainable > clean energy by now… Putting all your eggs in one or two baskets is just > not that likely to pay off…**** > > ** ** > > -Mark**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Daniel Rocha [mailto:danieldi...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:49 PM > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:FYI: too many taus for Standard Model...**** > > ** ** > > Well, they do not have a significance to claim to justify that SM is > incorrect. Besides, they are talking about decay rates of mesons, which are > bound states of mesons, meaning strong force interaction which is very > prone to errors in theoretical rate calculations. In the case of a growing > divergence, more calculations need to be done.**** > > ** ** > > Anyway, why is big science bad? Without comparing to big government.**** > > 2012/9/14 MarkI-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net>**** > > **** > > Researchers at SLAC find too many taus decay from bottom quarks to fit > Standard Model**** > > http://phys.org/news/2012-09-slac-taus-bottom-quarks-standard.html**** > > **** > > “Muons are generally produced in abundance in such collisions, whereas > taus are rare, and it's the amount of them that were produced in the > collisions at SLAC that has cast doubts on the Standard Model. Instead of > the 20% frequency rate predicted for D mesons, the researchers found a 31% > rate (and a 25% rate for D* mesons instead of the predicted 23%). These > differences are significant enough to cause pretty serious problems for > SUSY.”**** > > **** > > “To explain the differences between the theories and observed results the > researchers suggest that perhaps another Higgs Boson is at work; SUSY > suggests there may be as many as four, though research at CERN is still > ongoing to prove that what was observed earlier this year was in fact an > actual Higgs.”**** > > **** > > So they are working on justification for an even BIGGER collider to find > the 4 new Bosons! Big science is just as bad as government… continual > growth, even to the detriment of those which it is supposed to serve.**** > > **** > > -Mark Iverson**** > > **** > > > > **** > > ** ** > > -- > Daniel Rocha - RJ**** > > danieldi...@gmail.com**** > > ** ** > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
