Science-George

Well, we all knew he's not a wordsmith, but mimicking Frankenstein's mannerisms?

I mean, c'mon now.

Tonight the Waxing Gibbous Moon appears close to Saturn. 🔭 🧪

Chen Ning Yang is truly a legend. Not only is his scientific work admirable, but even his birthday story is full of coincidences and historical significance.
Salute him, and also salute your work.
It's truly admirable to be involved in such a field

two men are kneeling down and one of them is saying i 'm not worthy . ALT: two men are kneeling down and one of them is saying i 'm not worthy .

I thank you, yet I'm not in his league. I may have dreamt of a similar future for myself back in the previous millennium when I was working as a laboratory assistant, but I ended up working for a state agency for which I write reports, so, as the meme says, I'm not worthy to be compared with him.

Hey, Blueskyverse!

Join me in wishing a very

Happy 103rd Birthday today

to Yang Chen-Ning.

(His passport erroneously recorded

September 22nd, 1922 as his birth

date instead of October 1st, 1922,

yet he adopted the wrong date for

use on all official documents ever

since!)

Hey, Blueskyverse!

Join me in wishing a very

Happy 103rd Birthday today

to Yang Chen-Ning.

(His passport erroneously recorded

September 22nd, 1922 as his birth

date instead of October 1st, 1922,

yet he adopted the wrong date for

use on all official documents ever

since!)

For nearly 3 decades, @Fermilab's

Tevatron helped to complete the

Standard Model of particle physics,

especially by finally discovering the

top quark, and helping narrow the

search for the Higgs boson - right

up until it ceased operations,

14 years ago this very afternoon.

For nearly 3 decades, @Fermilab's

Tevatron helped to complete the

Standard Model of particle physics,

especially by finally discovering the

top quark, and helping narrow the

search for the Higgs boson - right

up until it ceased operations,

14 years ago this very afternoon.

Hey, Blueskyverse!

Join me in wishing a very

Happy 71st Birthday

today to CERN!

Most of the fundamental

types of bosons in nature

were discovered there -

including the Higgs boson -

and, of course, it was there

that the World Wide Web was

invented as well.

Hey, Blueskyverse!

Join me in commemorating

today's 124th anniversary of

the birth of Enrico Fermi!

Of the 2 types of particles in our

universe (force-carriers or matter),

the matter category are named

fermions after him, as is the Fermi

National Accelerator Laboratory.

Hey, Blueskyverse!

Join me in wishing a very

Happy 71st Birthday

today to CERN!

Most of the fundamental

types of bosons in nature

were discovered there -

including the Higgs boson -

and, of course, it was there

that the World Wide Web was

invented as well.

Hey, Blueskyverse!

Join me in commemorating

today's 124th anniversary of

the birth of Enrico Fermi!

Of the 2 types of particles in our

universe (force-carriers or matter),

the matter category are named

fermions after him, as is the Fermi

National Accelerator Laboratory.

🧵 6/6
Global collaboration, ancient knowledge, modern science—Zingiberaceae at the frontier.

🌐 #Ethnopharmacology #GlobalHealth #CRBIOTECH @dereksylvester.bsky.social @kennarubin.bsky.social @alokjha09.bsky.social @gmpinglish.bsky.social @oleksandrkashuba.bsky.social @sole25.bsky.social

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From lab to clinic: we explore the barriers & potential of Zingiberaceae in medicine.

🌐 #DrugDiscovery #ClinicalTrials #HerbalMedicine @jchilton666.bsky.social @nimoh.bsky.social @mikaiaalto.bsky.social @arnieoflovers.bsky.social @mquigley1963.bsky.social @alisyngayle.bsky.social

🧵 4/6
Can turmeric & ginger support cardiovascular and gut health? Our review says yes.

🌐 #Cardioprotection #GutHealth #FunctionalFood @nicksevillaz.bsky.social @manjeet786.bsky.social @castltrastondrs.bsky.social @ewingt-phd.bsky.social @diegogarotooficial.bsky.social

🧵 3/6
Gingerol, curcumin & cardamonin: nature’s bioactive warriors against chronic disease.

🌐 #Phytochemicals #IntegrativeMedicine #NutritionScience @spatzlhirn.bsky.social @michaeldonoian.bsky.social @heatherpics1.bsky.social @martinbue.bsky.social @ryuma21.bsky.social @holyunknown.bsky.social

🧵 2/6
Zingiberaceae spices have potent antioxidant & anti-inflammatory powers!

🌐 #Antioxidants #Inflammation #NaturalHealth @shawneexo.bsky.social @ustinoff.bsky.social @chrisssali.bsky.social @myribw.bsky.social @georgeradics.bsky.social

🧵 1/6
Discover how ginger, turmeric, cardamom & galangal fight disease in our latest review!
📖 inpst.net/health-promo...

🌐 #MedicinalPlants #INPST #Phytotherapy @hipecsurvivor.bsky.social @castltrastondrs.bsky.social @martinbue.bsky.social @science-george.bsky.social @rachel-garcia.bsky.social

Ok, just 'cause I predicted *this* doesn't mean that I'll be correctly predicting the Physics Nobel two weeks from now.

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I mean, it's happened before, so I might, but - as always - just don't put any money on it!

Will history be repeated tonight?

One of the connectors (from a fiber optic cable routing signals by laser light) wasn't fully attached properly. That's it, that's all it was!

Well, here, don't just take my word for it. At left is the connector they discovered wasn't propely attached. At right it's fixed.

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Of course what it doesn't rule out is mistakes inadvertently introduced by experimenters, or from unknown equipment malfunction, or from some concealed flaw in experimental setup, etc.

Soooo, in the case of the OPERA experiment, what was ultimately determined to be at fault?

5/

This incident just highlighted that even a statistically significant observation in excess of 6σ doesn't necessarily require any new phenomenon to exist, just that any such observation would be extremely unlikely to be merely some statistical fluke, or known systematic error.

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And, spoiler alert, that's exactly how things turned out! The 6.2σ confidence achieved by the OPERA researchers - one in excess of the 5σ standard required to officially claim a discovery - was legitimate, but ended up being only a measure of great precision, not of accuracy.

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There were, of course, sensationalized headlines suggesting that relativity had been overturned, and that Einstein had been proven wrong, but, despite keeping cautiously open minds, everyone familiar with the situation expected it'd ultimately amount to some type of error.

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It was 14 years ago today when results were announced of a 'timing anomaly' at the OPERA experiment - one with a 6.2σ statistical significance.

The anomaly indicated an apparent observation of neutrinos with a velocity exceeding that of lightspeed, and the media took notice!

1/

Will history be repeated tonight?

One of the connectors (from a fiber optic cable routing signals by laser light) wasn't fully attached properly. That's it, that's all it was!

Well, here, don't just take my word for it. At left is the connector they discovered wasn't propely attached. At right it's fixed.

/6

Of course what it doesn't rule out is mistakes inadvertently introduced by experimenters, or from unknown equipment malfunction, or from some concealed flaw in experimental setup, etc.

Soooo, in the case of the OPERA experiment, what was ultimately determined to be at fault?

5/

This incident just highlighted that even a statistically significant observation in excess of 6σ doesn't necessarily require any new phenomenon to exist, just that any such observation would be extremely unlikely to be merely some statistical fluke, or known systematic error.

4/