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ohwilleke reacted to Iskandarani's post in the thread A Inertial mass, the Higgs field, and Mach's Principle with
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Thank you, @PeroK and @PeterDonis, for the very clear answers. That perfectly clarifies the scope of the Standard Model on this topic... -
ohwilleke reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread A Inertial mass, the Higgs field, and Mach's Principle with Like.
Yes. Only in the sense that "the vacuum structure" has the fact that spacetime is locally Minkowskian built into it, and that embodies...
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Thanks for ruining my day. Until now, it had never crossed my mind that I've been a sexagenarian for quite a while now. And don't...
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ohwilleke reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread I Is Toponium a Reality Despite Top Quark's Rapid Decay? with Like.
That’s actually not surprising when you look at the number of authors on their papers. I think I mentioned this elsewhere.
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ohwilleke reacted to mfb's post in the thread I Is Toponium a Reality Despite Top Quark's Rapid Decay? with Like.
Internal reviews in the big collaborations are far more stringent than the official peer review process. I have never heard of a paper...
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ohwilleke reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread I Is Toponium a Reality Despite Top Quark's Rapid Decay? with Like.
Yeah, as usual I was too fast. Coming from the CMS and ATLAS collaborationS I think it's a foregone conclusion that it will hold up.
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ohwilleke replied to the thread I Is Toponium a Reality Despite Top Quark's Rapid Decay?.The CMS paper was published last week, with some modest revisions from the original preprint in March. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd...
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Today's xkcd. Wavefunction Collapse (Source: https://xkcd.com/3134/)
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ohwilleke posted the thread I Is Toponium a Reality Despite Top Quark's Rapid Decay? in High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics.Toponium is a hadron which is the bound state of a valance top quark and a valance antitop quark. Oversimplified presentations often...
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ohwilleke reacted to Herman Trivilino's post in the thread Collection of Science Jokes P2 with
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On a traffic stop the cop asks Professor Shrödinger if it's okay to search his trunk. With permission he proceeds. Afterwards the cop... -
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I have just seen a tshirt featuring Schrödinger's Opossum. You don't know if it's alive or dead even after opening the box.
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