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Cricketer12
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eonrulz
United Kingdom225 Posts
Funnily enough, my own Masters thesis was on black holes too; micro-black hole production at the LHC, to be precise. Its interesting how two very different approaches (macro vs micro) lead to the same end result, theoretically. | ||
Teoita
Italy12248 Posts
On July 07 2016 21:21 eonrulz wrote: Hey man, congrats on passing your Masters :D I remember your first astro blog, made me write up my own blog about particle physics. Funnily enough, my own Masters thesis was on black holes too; micro-black hole production at the LHC, to be precise. Its interesting how two very different approaches (macro vs micro) lead to the same end result, theoretically. I remember reading that, it was a cool blog! Do you still do research? | ||
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eonrulz
United Kingdom225 Posts
On July 07 2016 22:41 Teoita wrote: I remember reading that, it was a cool blog! Do you still do research? Yup, still doing it, got another 9 months before my thesis deadline. Only difference is now I intensely dislike everything about it  Actually that's not true, the ideas and concepts are still so cool to me, and I love talking about/explaining it to people, I just hate the soul-destroying day-to-day work. | ||
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Teoita
Italy12248 Posts
Good luck with your thesis  Regarding LHC, i've heard talk of it finding particles where 4 quarks are in a bound state rather than 3 for nucleons or 2 for pions. Wtf is up with that? | ||
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
I sincerely wish you the best of luck, I am studying physics too. I learned a lot in your post - this next semester I think I am going to try to take general relativity . I think I just decided to erase my previous message as it did not add anything meaningful.I will have to read more on these issues | ||
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Teoita
Italy12248 Posts
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pPingu
Switzerland2892 Posts
Great read and congrats for your master! | ||
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eonrulz
United Kingdom225 Posts
On July 08 2016 18:15 Teoita wrote: Regarding LHC, i've heard talk of it finding particles where 4 quarks are in a bound state rather than 3 for nucleons or 2 for pions. Wtf is up with that? Oh yeah, so I mean, quarks are just held together by gluon interactions, right? Well, so long as the colour states work out, there's nothing stopping any number of quarks being put into a bound state. It just happens that two- or three-quark states (mesons or baryons) are the most likely to happen, by several orders of magnitude, because they're both energetically and colour favoured. But with the LHC, because of the huge amount of data it provides as well as the higher centre-of-mass energy, we can actually do enough collisions per second to have a chance to see them just through sheer number of statistics (only Belle, an experiment on the KEKB accelerator in Japan, has collected more data, but the CoM energy wasn't high enough to really see these tetra- or penta-quark states). Its really interesting though and definitely shows we haven't even fully figured out the Standard Model yet. | ||
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Teoita
Italy12248 Posts
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corydoras
161 Posts
Sorry, I had to. That's a cool post. Also - congrats on your graduation! | ||
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