Comments on: Penguin Opportunity? http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:24:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: P-P-Put Down a Penguin - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-58839 P-P-Put Down a Penguin - Asymptotia Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:43:17 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/#comment-58839 [...] The scientific implications of this find are apparently quite striking, especially in view of current discussion of climate change effects on penguin species (fueled by the annoying rise of all these penguin movies…..) [...] [...] The scientific implications of this find are apparently quite striking, especially in view of current discussion of climate change effects on penguin species (fueled by the annoying rise of all these penguin movies…..) [...]

]]> By: A quantum diaries survivor http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-46421 A quantum diaries survivor Sun, 20 May 2007 06:10:26 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/#comment-46421 Hi Clifford, well, I have a bet of a grand out with Jacques Distler and Gordon Watts, on the absence of any new physics at the LHC within 2 years of delivering 10/fb to the experiments. You can read the details in my blog (search for "this $1000 says there is no new physics at the tev scale" or something like that in my site, Sep 2006). The rationale of the bet is that I would really love to lose it! And if I win, well, I will find some way to use an extra grand. Cheers, T. Hi Clifford,

well, I have a bet of a grand out with Jacques Distler and Gordon Watts, on the absence of any new physics at the LHC within 2 years of delivering 10/fb to the experiments. You can read the details in my blog (search for “this $1000 says there is no new physics at the tev scale” or something like that in my site, Sep 2006).

The rationale of the bet is that I would really love to lose it! And if I win, well, I will find some way to use an extra grand.

Cheers,
T.

]]> By: Plato http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-45709 Plato Wed, 16 May 2007 17:35:49 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/#comment-45709 <a href="http://www.symmetrymag.org/cms/?pid=1000424" rel="nofollow">Symmetry Magazine</a> had a nice article about this. I write about it from a "heart song" perspective.:) Symmetry Magazine had a nice article about this. I write about it from a “heart song” perspective.:)

]]> By: Athena http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-45428 Athena Tue, 15 May 2007 03:14:51 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/#comment-45428 I was recently talking about the black hole and information paradox wager with a physicist friend of mine; I had just come across it in a book. Although the scientific process behind it is fascinating, what I really enjoyed was the sense of humor behind the prize Hawking gave to Preskill. Here's a quote I found on the web: "I'm now ready to concede the bet," Prof Hawking said yesterday. At stake was an encyclopedia - "from which information can be recovered at ease" - of the winner's choice. "John is all American so naturally he wants an encyclopedia of baseball. I had great difficulty finding one over here, so I offered him an encyclopedia of cricket as an alternative," Prof Hawking said. "But John wouldn't be persuaded of the superiority of cricket." I was recently talking about the black hole and information paradox wager with a physicist friend of mine; I had just come across it in a book. Although the scientific process behind it is fascinating, what I really enjoyed was the sense of humor behind the prize Hawking gave to Preskill. Here’s a quote I found on the web:

“I’m now ready to concede the bet,” Prof Hawking said yesterday. At stake was an encyclopedia - “from which information can be recovered at ease” - of the winner’s choice. “John is all American so naturally he wants an encyclopedia of baseball. I had great difficulty finding one over here, so I offered him an encyclopedia of cricket as an alternative,” Prof Hawking said. “But John wouldn’t be persuaded of the superiority of cricket.”

]]> By: Samantha http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-45417 Samantha Tue, 15 May 2007 01:47:46 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/#comment-45417 Although people take bets all time in biology labs, I am fruitlessly racking my brain to think of a famous bet between biologists. I think the sort of experiments that we do (mouse genetics) take so long that you have forgotten the bet by the time the experiment is actually done. I somehow feel that Sydney Brenner would be a famous better, but I can't find any folklore on the web. [He took 7 years (cough) to do his Nobel prize winning research on the develop ment of C.elegans as a genetic system back in the late 60s/early 70s. It was a different funding climate then.] Although people take bets all time in biology labs, I am fruitlessly racking my brain to think of a famous bet between biologists. I think the sort of experiments that we do (mouse genetics) take so long that you have forgotten the bet by the time the experiment is actually done.

I somehow feel that Sydney Brenner would be a famous better, but I can’t find any folklore on the web. [He took 7 years (cough) to do his Nobel prize winning research on the develop ment of C.elegans as a genetic system back in the late 60s/early 70s. It was a different funding climate then.]

]]> By: Navneeth http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-45370 Navneeth Mon, 14 May 2007 19:19:02 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/#comment-45370 Never mind...I think you can delete the comments. In retrospect, the "joke" seems lame. I'll continue to try and come up with a good storyline for the movie. :D Never mind…I think you can delete the comments. In retrospect, the “joke” seems lame. I’ll continue to try and come up with a good storyline for the movie. :D

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-45367 Clifford Mon, 14 May 2007 19:05:27 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/#comment-45367 sorry... commenters are not allowed to post pictures.. for obvious reasons. email it to me and I can post it in a comment just below. Cheers, -cvj sorry… commenters are not allowed to post pictures.. for obvious reasons. email it to me and I can post it in a comment just below.

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: Navneeth http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-45366 Navneeth Mon, 14 May 2007 19:00:40 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/#comment-45366 Hmm...that does not mean anything without the picture I added, which, btw, the preview feature promised me would appear in the final comment. :( Hmm…that does not mean anything without the picture I added, which, btw, the preview feature promised me would appear in the final comment. :(

]]> By: Navneeth http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-45365 Navneeth Mon, 14 May 2007 18:59:34 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/14/penguin-opportunity/#comment-45365 Say what? Say what?

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