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Offline sam

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Science for the masses
« on: December 11, 2010, 23:36 »
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Observational science is hard. And it seems to be getting harder. Nowadays, when you want to analyze the latest and greatest data set, it could consist of finding a minute-long evolving oscillatory gravitational-wave signal buried in months and mountains of noise. Or it could consist of picking out that one Higgs event among 600 million events. Per second. Or it could consist of looking for tiny correlations in the images of tens of millions of galaxies.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/12/09/science-for-the-masses
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Re: Science for the masses
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2010, 09:02 »
A fascinating article Sam.  Now we can all find gravitational lenses from the comfort of our armchair.   :D
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Re: Science for the masses
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2010, 12:25 »
I have enough trouble understanding my ECG. ;)
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Re: Science for the masses
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2010, 13:24 »
... and getting out of your chair.   :devil:
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Re: Science for the masses
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2010, 16:18 »
 :wahh: :bunny-giggle:
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