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I don't know how many of you followed the G20 news, but wow was I surprised at what happened.

First off, Police and CSIS decide to raid the homes of social organizers, before G20 starts and in one case while they were on the way to a press meeting to express their views.

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Next the protesters, now without leadership to keep them organized and calm, go bat-shit crazy, and start torching police cruisers in the streets.

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Now, in the aftermath, charges are being flung left and right, as police are denying arrestees meaningful and timely access to counsel while beating and arresting those peacefully protesting their detention outside.

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And all of this because these clowns are showing up?

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Right now I'm at a loss to describe my feelings. I know that If I had been in Toronto I'd probably have torched a cruiser or two myself after seeing this abuse of power. The government and it's subsidiary agencies(re: CSIS, TPD) are in place to PROTECT CANADIAN CITIZENS, not bag them and put them in UNMARKED VANS. This is a flagrant abuse of authority and almost a call to revolution in my eyes. If they get away with it there, they can get away with it anywhere.

Tell me what you guys think, I need some level heads to balance me out here.

-G.A.H.D.

A new game coming onto the market soon, I got invited into the closed beta.

Now without breaking the NDA, I can tell you guys HoN a lot like Defense of the Ancients or Aeon of Strife, the Warcraft3 map-mods. Another good comparison might be Demigod.

they've go a facebook group for anyone who wants to follow the public releases.

AS of right now I have a couple of spare invites into the beta myself, so send me a PM if you want in. (your post count will be the % chance I send one.)
YouTube - Heroes of Newerth: Full Action Battle Scene

http://hypography.co...html#post254097

So what "IS" a "Super X Divertor"? on the little drawing it looks like an angled reflector? Arxiv ain't got nothin...

I like to know what the object generating the black magic looks like.

In a paper so potentially significant that only two-thirds of the physicists involved were willing to sign their name to it at this early stage, evidence is beginning to leak out that researchers at Fermilab may have discovered a new particle. While yet unnamed, the scientists are being extremely cautious moving forward. They've released a paper at this unusually early stage to help tame speculation and conjecture. It's being reported that no "Standard Model" accounts for the observations witnessed in 23% of collisions, a value too far outside the range statistical fluctuation to be mere coincidence.

Muon effects at 1.96 TeV

The scientists want to stress that uncategorized or unknown effects from their detector (or some other machine anomaly which may account for their observations) have not been ruled out. Yet. Research is continuing and the remaining one-third of the physicists withheld their names from the publication for that very reason until those anomalies are sorted out.

To sum up their findings briefly, the team observed extra muons when studying p-pbar collisions at energy levels of sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV. They believe these extra muons are occurring because of an unusual and unexpectedly long-lived particle which was emitting them while it slowly decayed over something on the order of 20+ picoseconds, far longer than ever imagined.

Charting new territory

This finding, according to the published paper (link below), occurred in the background. The research team was conducting other impact research with primary findings focused on those collisions. Still, these second-hand observations have taken the physics world by storm. No existing model, not even alternate models which have only mild recognition or acceptance, appear to account for the observed effect. And while this is extraordinary, everybody involved is moving ahead absolutely cautiously.

Taken from the blog of Tommaso Dorigo, a Collider Dector physicist at Fermilab (CDF), "As far as I understand, no existing model of new physics predicted such a signature in advance, although one must acknowledge that a few ideas exist in the literature which might have a connection with the effect, if proven real."

Peter Woit, a Columbia University mathematician, noted this on his blog, "The exciting possibility here is that a new, relatively long-lived particle has been observed, one that decays in some way that leads to a lot more muons than one gets from Standard Model states. It should be remembered though that this is an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence, and the possibility remains that this is some sort of background or detector effect that the CDF physicists have missed."

Woit continues, "It should also be made clear that this paper is not a claim by CDF to have discovered a new particle, rather it is written up as a description of the anomalies they have found, leaving open the possibility that these come from some standard model processes or detector characteristics that they do not yet understand."

More research, long time

The scientists have indicated that conclusions based on the results they've obtained will take quite a while to fully sort out. Fermilab may also begin using their other detector, called "D0," in an attempt to verify the results, possibly requiring even longer to process the data.

While it's going to take some time to get to the bottom of this potentially revolutionary finding, the entire scientific community now has something really exciting to focus their energies on. It is likely stories of this nature will dominate scientific discussion until they are discounted or proven.

Fermilab

TG Daily's Wolfgang Gruener visited Fermilab in 2007 on a guided tour (with pictures). Until the Large Hadon Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland is repaired next Spring, Fermilab will remain home to the world's most powerful supercollider - Tevatron.

Fermilab has played host to at least three significant discoveries over its operational lifetime, including the Tau Neutrino and the doubly strange Omega-sub-b quark. Discoveries like these with relatively low power (compared to LHC's theoretical potential) are what get many people excited about the possibilities of even greater discoveries with LHC.

Read the original paper published by two-thirds of the physicists at arxiv.org.

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Looks like things could work out a bit diferently than we'd thought, Gotta love when something new and interesting shows up.

so I will shortly have access to an autoclave and machine shop to do a bit of fun, and I've decided on a personal project of a FWD electric assist/brake mechanism for a standard bicycle.

I'm considering my options on how to accomplish this, so far I've considered; embedded and brushed solenoids in the hub interacting with perma mags on the forks, and a sectored variety of a unipolar motor where a heavily spoked wheel with properly sectioned and isolated rim-sections acts with forked perma mags.

I'm curious as to hypography's imput on the matter? Any funginerrs wanna help me out?