BBC2 tonight at 9. Horizon special: the search for the Higgs
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BBC2 tonight at 9. Horizon special: the search for the Higgs
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I'll watch it. I already know that I will be disappointed by the dumbed-down lack of any real science. But, like a dog returning again and again to an empty bowl, I will watch it. 
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Good point. I don't have a clue about the real physics but I know all that there is for us dullards to know about this stuff and I'm up to date. Not sure why I too will be checking that empty bowl...
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Because maybe, just maybe, this time...Rum wrote:Good point. I don't have a clue about the real physics but I know all that there is for us dullards to know about this stuff and I'm up to date. Not sure why I too will be checking that empty bowl...
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I think the target market is the same sort of folks who want to appear clever at their call centre water cooler, without making the actual effort of learning much.
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Sorry I've eaten them all. 
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Well having watched it they are either all fucking geniuses or up their own bums.
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Imagine how much all the money spent on CERN could have been used to transform the climate change debate?Rum wrote:Well having watched it they are either all fucking geniuses or up their own bums.
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Or both, of course.Rum wrote:Well having watched it they are either all fucking geniuses or up their own bums.
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Not to worry. The private sector will step in and make everything okay if Big Government keeps their hands off.Crumple wrote:Imagine how much all the money spent on CERN could have been used to transform the climate change debate?Rum wrote:Well having watched it they are either all fucking geniuses or up their own bums.
Any fucking day now, private sector, any fucking day.
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It was surprisingly informative. For one thing, I learnt that the super-symmetrical partner particle of the W boson is pronounced "weeno" and not the way that the word "Wino" is usually pronounced. Somehow that diminished it for me. 
It wasn't bad by recent Horizon standards - my biggest gripe was when they referred to experiments that could prove that super-symmetry is "not just a theory" - I really wish they had used the word "hypothesis" in that sentence.
It wasn't bad by recent Horizon standards - my biggest gripe was when they referred to experiments that could prove that super-symmetry is "not just a theory" - I really wish they had used the word "hypothesis" in that sentence.
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Re: BBC2 tonight at 9. Horizon special: the search for the H
About to watch it now ... 
EDIT: Presented by Jim Al-Khalili. That's a good start
EDIT: Presented by Jim Al-Khalili. That's a good start
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I thought it was pretty good. It jumped about a bit, but other than that I couldn't find anything to gripe about. It certainly wasn't dumbed down to the point of being misleading.
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Jasus H.
Morons.
The Horizon program said NOTHING.
It fed your fantasies of a "let's not mention it" wonder.
IT SAID NOTHING.
Morons.
The Horizon program said NOTHING.
It fed your fantasies of a "let's not mention it" wonder.
IT SAID NOTHING.
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Ah, didn't understand it, then?
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