Comment I'm in (Score 1) 85
How much do i have to pay to get a complementing article about an fifth force between neutrinos in physics.
Comment Re:Bacon! (Score 1) 176
not when the price is £800.
Journal Journal: Not being Employed
Years, a online dot-com company, years of programming experience, and a long CV of previous work, is not getting me a job in the current conditions.
Being out of work for 18 months now, and getting poor.
Comment Beginning of the end for driving jobs. (Score 4, Insightful) 301
I'm expect a lot of political trouble from trucking unions etc. Driving is many peoples
livelihoods.
Comment Re:and this validates many aging tests (Score 1) 267
approximately 1% variation per year that cancels year on year, so no change to carbon dating.
Comment Re:Why is the effect so small if due to flux? (Score 1) 267
Sometimes the decay is spontenous, and sometimes caused by impact of solar neutrinos. The spontenous decay would mask the effect somewhat. Only the effect on neutrino absorbtion would vary as the distance from the sun.
Submission + - Russian find a new particle (science20.com)
physburn writes: "The Russian Dubna Nuctron accelerator has reported finded a new elementary particle. The E(38) Boson at 38 MeV, it interacts only with quarks and gluons, but decays (via quark diagrams) into pairs of photons. The particle was previously reported in February from data from the BaBar experiment, and the new data seems to confirm its existence."
Submission + - A Quantum Computer Finds Factors - 15 mostly equals 3x5 (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: The Shor quantum factoring algorithm has been run for the first time on a solid state device and it successfully factored a composite number. A team from UCSB has managed to build and operate a quantum circuit composed of four superconducting phase qubits. The design creates entangled bits faster than before and the team verified that entanglement was happening using quantum tomography. The final part of the experiment implemented the Shor factoring algorithm using 15 as the value to be factored. In 150,000 runs of the calculation, the chip gave the correct result 48% of the time. As Shor's algorithm is only supposed to give the correct answer 50% of the time, this is a good result. Is this the start of the quantum computing revolution?
Submission + - Earth's Corner of the Galaxy Just Got a Little Lonelier
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Only 4 stars, including Barnard's Star, are within 6 light years of the Sun, and only 11 are within 10 light years. That's why Barnard's star, popularized in Robert Forward's hard-sf novel, "Flight of the Dragonfly," is often short-listed as a target for humanity's first interstellar probe. Astronomers have long hoped to find a habitable planet around it, an alien Earth that might someday bear the boot prints of a future Neil Armstrong, or the tire tracks of a souped-up 25th-century Curiosity rover. But now Ross Anderson reports that a group of researchers led by UC Berkeley's Jieun Choi have delivered the fatal blow to Barnard's Star when they revealed the results of 248 precise Doppler measurements that were designed to examine the star for wobbles indicative of planets around it. The measurements, taken over a period of 25 years, led to a depressing conclusion: "the habitable zone around Barnard's star appears to be devoid of roughly Earth-mass planets or larger . . . [p]revious claims of planets around the star by van de Kamp are strongly refuted." NASA's Kepler space telescope, which studies a group of distant Milky Way stars, has found more than 2,000 exoplanet candidates in just the past two years, leading many to suspect that our galaxy is home to billions of planets, a sizable portion of which could be habitable. "This non-detection of nearly Earth-mass planets around Barnard’s Star is surely unfortunate, as its distance of only 1.8 parsecs would render any Earth-size planets valuable targets for imaging and spectroscopy, as well as compelling destinations for robotic probes by the end of the century.""
Comment Re:Old mystery explained. (Score 1) 167
get no good reaction!
Comment Re:I want to buy that rock (Score 1) 167
All article alluding to Pu-236 will be rated weopens grade.
Comment Re:Bagger 288 (Score 2) 167
No how long before we get Sharks on Mars. We got the lasers now we need the shark!
Comment Re:Landing will never work (Score 1) 411
Big Cheers to NASA, hip hip hooray!
Comment Re:Detection tank (Score 1) 275
Yes, even for a powerful, directed beam of neutrinos, it big tanks of water, a photomultiplier tubes to detect.
Comment Re:IMHO gravity neutrinos (Score 1) 275
hmm, yes mass and energy are same thing, but that c squared factor means you don't get much gravity per Joule. How much energy have you got in one of those
capacitors, yes the electricity moves fast, at the 1/3 c. But if you want a gravity of detectable quantities, i think you'd be better off wiggling a massive object quickly.
