Friday Funny: The Catastrophe Particle has been discovered

Forget the Higgs Boson, Josh has bigger fish to fry.

… inspired by various articles, particularly James Delingpole’s, and comments following George Monbiot’s admission that he got Peak Oil wrong.

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kadaka (KD Knoebel)
July 6, 2012 9:42 pm

From cui bono on July 6, 2012 at 9:54 am:

Next the Giss particle, which comes in at 165Gev. No wait, after adjustments 155. No wait….

Confusing, isn’t it? A GISS anomalous particle will be larger in recent times but will get smaller in the past. The further you look back in time, the smaller it actually becomes in the distant past.
Don’t worry if you don’t comprehend it. We are assured the complicated physics and mathematics are completely understood by trustworthy fully-qualified supercomputer game programmers.

July 6, 2012 11:20 pm

All well and good, but Keith wants to know which one has the missing heat?

July 7, 2012 1:25 am

It appears that Einstein has had it wrong all these years:
Mass and energy are the same thing, so when the protons have very high energies, they’re very large.”
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-07/hello-higgs-boson-lhcs-new-particle-looks-real-thing

michael hart
July 7, 2012 5:15 am

I expect they lepton that one.

cui bono
July 7, 2012 6:29 am

I got a hadron just thinking about it. Er, sorry.

July 7, 2012 9:54 am

Hansenite. Only known use: Making crystal balls.

July 7, 2012 9:57 am

Briffa Bits. Used in the fabrication of wooden thermometers.

johanna
July 7, 2012 5:03 pm

Iowahawk announces further discoveries:
“Pelosi’s Paradox states that in order to find out what is in a health care bill, it would have to be passed,” explained physicist Steven Hawking. “But in order to be a law it would have to be constitutional, which means someone would have to know what was in it, which would mean it couldn’t have been a bill in the first place. Think of Schroedinger’s Cat, except with a lobotomy.”
To solve the paradox, Roberts proposed the existence of the Taxon – an ephemeral, mysterious facton particle that in theory would allow the Universal Health System to be constitutional, without directly observing what was in it.”
More info at
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/

Brian H
July 8, 2012 11:50 am

The prospect of separating inertia from its proper residence is unsettling. Travelling along in a Newtonian way, execute a 90° turn by detaching that inertia — and doing what with it? Letting it trundle along on its own on the previous trajectory? Pity the poor sod it intersects! Suddenly jerked off in your previous direction without notice …
Life could get very difficult and complicated. Not to mention abbreviated by surprise.

Lars P.
July 9, 2012 9:41 am

It has the property to recirculate infrared radiation in a vicious circle.
Schrodinger’s cat-astrophe paradox: you cannot measure its temperature accurately, it will show no warming no matter how much infrared radiation it recycles in its vicious circle, only through adjustments can one deduct the right temperature.
With time it decays to GISS-particles (through GISS anomaly process), which as stated above are larger in the present but smaller in the past.
thanks all for the good laugh!