Thursday, March 29, 2012

Cracking 'em up at 46°14′3″N 6°3′19″E

NYTimes:  This is the first time in the long search for the particle that different colliders are in vague agreement. 

It has led to a joke in physics circles: The Higgs boson has not been discovered yet, but its mass is 125 billion electron volts. 

Also heard around the water cooler:

Two electrons walk into a particle accelerator, and the lab tech says, "Not so fast."

...and the bartender says, "S'funny.  We don't get a lot of  theoretical particles in here," and the theoretical particle says, "Yeah, and at these prices you won't be getting many more."

 ..."Looks like yer Large Hadron Collider blew a seal."
"That's what Enrico Fermi said." 

Knock knock
Who's there?
(quickly decaying into more common subatomic particles)

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