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• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Wed, Oct 8 2014 6:03 PM

  CanineSupervisor:

   

  Btw - is this how you're measuring that: 

  By extracting the total width of the top quark, Gamma_t, from the partial decay width Gamma (t -> W b) measured using the t-channel cross section for single top quark production and from the branching fraction B (t -> W b) measured in ttbar events using up to 2.3 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 Collaboration at theTevatron ppbar Collider ?

  Careful, that's the kind of thinking that killed Schrödinger's cat...or not.

• CanineSupervisor 1,882 Posts

  Thu, Oct 9 2014 6:37 AM

  Ahhh...but do we actually know whether or not Schrödinger even had a cat in that box? 

  Now that's a paradox for you, Mark.

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Thu, Oct 9 2014 7:37 AM

  CanineSupervisor:

  Ahhh...but do we actually know whether or not Schrödinger even had a cat in that box? 

  Now that's a paradox for you, Mark.

  Some of us know, but my buddy Werner Heisenberg remains uncertain...

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Thu, Oct 9 2014 7:45 AM

  mkg335:

  Some of us know, but my buddy Werner Heisenberg remains uncertain...

  Because he is a man of principal.

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Thu, Oct 9 2014 6:21 PM

  PaulTon:

  mkg335:

  Some of us know, but my buddy Werner Heisenberg remains uncertain...

  Because he is a man of principal.

  To my illustrious colleagues:  I'm afraid we'll have to lay the matter to rest, otherwise we'll Bohr the reader to death.

• CanineSupervisor 1,882 Posts

  Fri, Oct 10 2014 4:35 AM

  mkg335:

  To my illustrious colleagues:  I'm afraid we'll have to lay the matter to rest, otherwise we'll Bohr the reader to death.

  ROFPMSL!!

  Good one, Mark.

  Reminds me of a joke:

  A Neutron walks into a bar and asks, "How much for a drink?"

  The bartender replies, "No charge for you."

   

  See what Paul started with that quark's width comment?

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Fri, Oct 10 2014 4:41 AM

  CanineSupervisor:

  See what Paul started with that quark's width comment?

  What you gonna do, string me up?

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Fri, Oct 10 2014 8:42 AM

  PaulTon:

  CanineSupervisor:

  See what Paul started with that quark's width comment?

  What you gonna do, string me up?

  That reminds me, my Higgs Boson has developed a strange knock, guess I'd better take it to my quantum mechanic.

• CanineSupervisor 1,882 Posts

  Fri, Oct 10 2014 9:00 AM

  mkg335:

  That reminds me, my Higgs Boson has developed a strange knock, guess I'd better take it to my quantum mechanic.

  ROFPMSL, Mark.!!!!

  Another good one.

  You better watch out, bro...when that happened to me, my particle accelerator was stuck. Not a cheap fix either after the transportation charges to CERN.

   

  Hey, Paul. You being theoretical here?

  PaulTon:

  What you gonna do, string me up?

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Fri, Oct 10 2014 3:34 PM

  Particle accelerator stuck...har!

  Can't wait to tell that one to dear old Auntie Matter.  She and Uncle Matter divorced long ago due to the dark energy their marriage produced.  Who knows what new event is on the horizon...