{"id":2943,"date":"2010-05-05T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T03:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2010-05-06T15:18:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T19:18:32","slug":"lhc-update-big-bang-machine-could-confirm-or-disprove-string-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"LHC Update: Bing Bang Machine Could Confirm or Disprove String Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s CERN <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=92525\">LHCC meeting<\/a> had a wide-range of reports about how the machine is doing (1 nb<sup>-1<\/sup> now, 10 nb<sup>-1<\/sup> over the next 5 weeks), what the experiments are seeing (charm, Ws), and what physics might be possible with the 2010-11 run (limits on some supersymmetric and other more exotic scenarios).<\/p>\n<p>Reuters this evening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSLDE64427L20100505\">reports<\/a> on the meeting, headlined with the typical delusional nonsense about string theory and the LHC which we&#8217;re in for several years of {&#8220;Could confirm or disprove string theory&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  This story has made it to various media outlets, including one that has it as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/science\/1861188\/collider_on_track_with_bing_bang_research\/index.html\">Collider on Track With Bing Bang Research<\/a>.  Title of posting edited appropriately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s CERN LHCC meeting had a wide-range of reports about how the machine is doing (1 nb-1 now, 10 nb-1 over the next 5 weeks), what the experiments are seeing (charm, Ws), and what physics might be possible with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-hep-news","category-this-weeks-hype"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}