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also: today i was trying to explain to my coworker how cellular structure works (we were talking about infections) and i mentioned lysosomes (sp?) and their function and he was like "OMG THAT'S WHERE THEY GOT THE NAME FOR LYSOL FROM!"
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minxnim
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i used to consider naming my friend kid 'apoptosis' just because it sounds so neat. and is so friggin EVIL.
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also: last night i realized i must have a really small shriveled up amygdala.
AND: my coworker was CURED of HEP C with a new interferon combination
AND: my coworker was CURED of HEP C with a new interferon combination
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also, huge argument last night about what was cooler to talk about: paradoxes or analogies.
i mean, borel's is too cool to not talk about. if i remember correctly it's:
Conditional probability density functions are not invariant under coordinate transformations.
i mean, borel's is too cool to not talk about. if i remember correctly it's:
Conditional probability density functions are not invariant under coordinate transformations.
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well i guess douglas hofstadter is really hott on analogies being the basis for all human learning and whatnot so like, that's the BIG thing you know?
that may be the case but my mind has never been blown by an ANALOGY ya know what I'm sayin? like we're all Carbon-based lifeforms but I'd rather talk about Francium, nahmean?
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yea dude, i totally know what you mean. i totally think hofstadter could be right about analogies and i think the way he's described it are awesome, but it's not as cool as paradoxes.
but about antimatter:
Trefils book the moment of creation he talks about how, about a second after the formation of the universe, the status of ratio in matter and anti-matter was essentially FIXED forever.
I mean, if there were a totally equal number of both, they would have annihilated the other and the universe would have died 1 second after its birth, right? I am just guessing here So basically all these scientists have this two mile long particle accelerator and theyre smashing matter and antimatter into one another to see what is going on with the universe they are finding that the decay rate between the two are different and that accounts for the asymmetry but I dont know if I buy it!
But anyway, as a basis for my bringing this up, its really cool that like I am guessing like, lets say 1 piece of every billion antimatter changed into matter. So the universe, at its conception, destroyed 99.9999999999% of itself.
but about antimatter:
Trefils book the moment of creation he talks about how, about a second after the formation of the universe, the status of ratio in matter and anti-matter was essentially FIXED forever.
I mean, if there were a totally equal number of both, they would have annihilated the other and the universe would have died 1 second after its birth, right? I am just guessing here So basically all these scientists have this two mile long particle accelerator and theyre smashing matter and antimatter into one another to see what is going on with the universe they are finding that the decay rate between the two are different and that accounts for the asymmetry but I dont know if I buy it!
But anyway, as a basis for my bringing this up, its really cool that like I am guessing like, lets say 1 piece of every billion antimatter changed into matter. So the universe, at its conception, destroyed 99.9999999999% of itself.
ohhhhhh ok it's not that there's the same amount it's that the amounts there are, are fixed. that's right. I remember now.
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ahaha I was JUST getting to that!!
hey dudes we need to take a single atom and get it travelling at about OHHHH THE SPEED OF LIGHT and then could we collide it with another atom? k thx.
also check this shit out!!
Cold anti-hydrogen atoms have been made and detected for the first time in an experiment at CERN. The ATHENA collaboration makes the anti-H atoms when a swarm of antiprotons is loosed upon a cloud of positrons held within the same 16-cm-long cylindrical trap. Anti-H atoms announce their presence when they drift out of the trap region and annihilate with ordinary atoms in a sort of double suicide. The antiproton perishes when it meets a regular proton, resulting in the creation of a few pi mesons detected in silicon microstrips, a process which points to the annihilation vertex with a precision of 4 mm. Meanwhile the positron partner from each anti-H meets its separate fate when it collides with the nearest electron, producing a telltale pair of 511-keV gamma rays which show up in adjoining CsI crystals. The next step for ATHENA will be to shine laser light upon its captive sample and determine from the re-emitted spectrum whether anti-hydrogen behaves like regular hydrogen.
http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2002/split/605-1.html
hey dudes we need to take a single atom and get it travelling at about OHHHH THE SPEED OF LIGHT and then could we collide it with another atom? k thx.
also check this shit out!!
Cold anti-hydrogen atoms have been made and detected for the first time in an experiment at CERN. The ATHENA collaboration makes the anti-H atoms when a swarm of antiprotons is loosed upon a cloud of positrons held within the same 16-cm-long cylindrical trap. Anti-H atoms announce their presence when they drift out of the trap region and annihilate with ordinary atoms in a sort of double suicide. The antiproton perishes when it meets a regular proton, resulting in the creation of a few pi mesons detected in silicon microstrips, a process which points to the annihilation vertex with a precision of 4 mm. Meanwhile the positron partner from each anti-H meets its separate fate when it collides with the nearest electron, producing a telltale pair of 511-keV gamma rays which show up in adjoining CsI crystals. The next step for ATHENA will be to shine laser light upon its captive sample and determine from the re-emitted spectrum whether anti-hydrogen behaves like regular hydrogen.
http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2002/split/605-1.html
lizard
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where is the largest particle beam accelorator?
I know there's a really large one up somewhere by chicago.
I know there's a really large one up somewhere by chicago.
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