18:46 < tapir> http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/08/08/physics-initiative-launches-hiring-dam-thanh-son 18:46 < tooly> Title: Physics initiative launches with hiring of Dam Thanh Son 18:47 < tapir> Wow, there's a theoretical physicist called "Damn, son"
22:43 < tooly> Title: Serbia v Albania abandoned after drone flies Albanian flag over stadium | Football | The GuE 22:57 < tapir> Pretty pathetic that they allowed a flag to stop their game 22:57 < tapir> but I guess that just goes to show the football mentality 22:57 < tapir> fucking chimps 23:08 < WEH> say you were are the european theoretical physics championships 23:09 < WEH> and someone flew the union jack over the lab 23:09 < WEH> you'd fucking snap your fountain pen in half
23:13 < tapir> vixra's pretty great, hundreds of 'theory of everything' papers badly formatted in MS Word and exported to pdf, written by retired electrical engineers with only the vaguest understanding of physics
14:58 < rsynnott> "Heinrich Paes at Dortmund University and colleagues believe it might be possible for neutrinos to move through hidden extra dimensions of space and effectively take shortcuts
through space-time."
14:58 < rsynnott> And then he beamed up to his starship
14:58 < rsynnott> and was killed by a misbehaving holodeck
14:59 < johnl> Are you reading BBC's Have Your Say again, Rob?
14:59 < johnl> You know it's bad for you
15:00 < rsynnott> johnl: nope; that was in a proper article in the guardian
15:00 < rsynnott> (about the naughty speeding neutrinos)
< pfm> electrons are tiny acid raves