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kept hearing talking in Duane about "something" that was big. I hear the term Nobel prize mentioned several times and then even something along the lines of "...even a Nobel prize will seem an insignificant prize for this."
Two friends of mine reported seeing one of the very esteemed professors in JILA crying. Yes. Crying. Then there was a firing. Apparently, no one knows about this. That's the part that I was talking to the Daily Camera guy about and he hung up on me.
At least a dozen students have reported some highly unusual phenomena in and even around Duane.
The only TA I thought I could trust to give me a straight answer said that there are an insane amount of non-disclosure agreements that have just been signed and that he couldn't talk about it.
And then, the real mystery is that there have been two of the big wig philosophy professors in and around the physics department and all of them seem really agitated or something.
As one of the nation's leading scientific institutes, JILA supports an eclectic and innovative research program that ranges from the small, cold world of quantum physics through the design of precision optics and atom lasers to the processes that shape the stars and galaxies
JILA's faculty includes three Nobel Laureates. Creative collaborations among researchers play a key role in generating the pioneering research the Institute and its Center for AMO Physics are known for around the world.
Originally posted by arktkchr
...one more, click on a JILA link which leads to info. about black holes (The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)) and seemingly other items of LHC interest.
'Black Holes & Galaxies'
jilawww.colorado.edu...
''Research Highlights'
jilawww.colorado.edu...
[edit on 27-9-2008 by arktkchr]
One of the T.A.'s discovered workable cold fusion that develops energy that can be easily stored. Then she fried her hard drive before she could do a logical back up, and now they are trying to reproduce the experiments without success.
NASA gives CU $485 million for mission to Mars
Research contract is the largest in school’s history
Originally posted by juniperberry
THis showed up on the CL board..
One of the T.A.'s discovered workable cold fusion that develops energy that can be easily stored. Then she fried her hard drive before she could do a logical back up, and now they are trying to reproduce the experiments without success.
But it sounds too flip of a description to be believable.
boulder.craigslist.org...
Bruce D. Benson is the current president of the University of Colorado. Benson, formerly an oil and gas executive, started in the position March 10, 2008. He signed a one-year contract with the University of Colorado and salary is $378,000.[1]
The $10,000 offer
In 1966, Klass made an offer that stood for the remaining thirty-nine
years of his life. By 1974, the offer had changed slightly, to the
following form:
* Klass agrees to pay to the second party the sum of $10,000
within thirty days after any of the following occur:
(A) Any crashed spacecraft, or major piece of a spacecraft is
found to be clearly of extraterrestrial origin by the United States
National Academy of Sciences, or
(B) The National Academy of Sciences announces that it has
examined other evidence which conclusively proves that Earth has been
visited by extraterrestrial spacecraft in the 20th century, or: (C) A
bona fide extraterrestrial visitor, born on a celestial body other
than the Earth, appears live before the General Assembly of the United
Nations or on a national television program.
* The party accepting this offer pays Klass $100 per year, for a
maximum of ten years, each year none of these things occur. Even after
the ten year period, Klass's offer of $10,000 was available until his
death.
n 1999, Stanford President Gerhard Casper appointed Hennessy to succeed Condoleezza Rice as Provost of Stanford University. When Casper stepped down to focus on teaching in 2000, the Stanford Board of Trustees named Hennessy to succeed Casper as president. As Stanford's president, Hennessy earns an annual salary of $566,581. In 1997, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM. Hennessy is a member of the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness. Hennessy joined the board of Google, in exchange for 65,000 shares of the company; at the time of Google's IPO, his shares were worth over $7 million.[citation needed] He is also a board member of Cisco Systems, Inc.[1], Atheros Communications,[2] and the Daniel Pearl Foundation
This is more that I should be telling you, but have you ever played half-life. Something similar is going on.
Here's what happened: I was in my 1140 section, working on lab M5: Hooke's Law and Simple Harmonic Motion, when I accidentally discovered cold fusion. So, I wrote it up in MathCad as my lab instead of the Hooke's Law crap. The TA stole my work, gave me a zero on my lab, and my floppy disk and lab binder have gone missing. Oh, and my lab partner totally isn't doing his fair share.
Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder), have applied their expertise in ultracold atoms and lasers to produce the first high-density gas of ultracold molecules—two different atoms bonded together—that are both stable and capable of strong interactions.
The long-sought milestone in physics has potential applications in quantum computing, precision measurement and designer chemistry.
Described in the Sept. 18 issue of Science Express, JILA's creation of ultracold "polar" molecules—featuring a positive electric charge at one end and a negative charge at the other—paves the way for controlled interactions of molecules separated by relatively long distances, offering a richer selection of features than is possible with individual atoms and potentially leading to new states of matter.