Comments on: There’s competition? http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/03/08/theres-competition/ Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the world. Wed, 22 May 2013 15:29:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anna Phan http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/03/08/theres-competition/#comment-55520 Anna Phan Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:47:21 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=20702#comment-55520 Dear Stephen,

When searching for a rare decay, you report upper limits until you are able to measure a decay rate. LHCb will be able to measure the decay rate with the dataset from this year if the decay rate is equal to the Standard Model prediction.

Cheers,
Anna

]]> By: Stephen Brooks http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/03/08/theres-competition/#comment-55514 Stephen Brooks Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:12:05 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=20702#comment-55514 Will the LHCb 2012 run get enough data to provide a lower bound on the decay fraction as well?

]]> By: Uncle Al http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/03/08/theres-competition/#comment-55499 Uncle Al Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:41:11 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=20702#comment-55499 “the limits are so close to the prediction that there probably won’t be any new physics in this decay,” What decay? Nobody has seen the decay even once.

One more block of data can exclude SM predictions. Science tests whether a postulated mathematics gift box contains an empirical gift. Founding postulates can be defective: Euclid on a 2-sphere, solar system epicycles, beta-decay that “should” be S-T mirror symmetric being than V-A chiral, the Fifth Force; SUSY and proton decay… FTL neutrinos have substantial theoretical support on arXiv, all of it being mathematically rigorous and empirically errant nonsense.

Vacuum properties are constrained to 14 significant figures by observing massless boson photons. Massed fermions need not see the same vacuum properties. The SM arrives massless, then massively parameterizes to become predictive. This is “curve fitting.” An odd-order polynomial can arbitrarily well fit a single sine wave cycle. The test is looking outside the fitted interval, hence the ignominious failure of economics as a predictive entity. Physicists + finance bankers = 2008 worldwide economic collapse. Be humble when 26 parameters meet the 28th data point.

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