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[bec_87rb]

Whenever I want to hate this job.

Lunchtime lecture on dark matter.

What to look up: Linde. also: Fermi+positron+balloon

I stopped him afterwards (there was a crowd at the podium afterwards) to ask what the million-cubic-meter balloon had detected that suggested dark matter existed and got this:

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[suegypt]

Wow. Cool. I have very little idea what you're talking about, but, yes, this is definitely a workplace perk. Were there a lot of other attendees?

Do they have lectures on other things, like art and history?

perks of the job

[bec_87rb]

They set it up in Dining Room A, and someone was filming it, so it might appear online somewhere - maybe under the dude's name, and it was PACKED. These free and open to the public lectures can get huge

Re: perks of the job

[suegypt]

And it's free? #*&^%lucky!!!!

colliding WIMPs and resulting positrons

[chhinnamasta]

I appreciate that you're the sort of person who would enjoy such a lecture.

Re: colliding WIMPs and resulting positrons

[bec_87rb]

ahahahahahaaaa... If you are the sort of person who likes that sort of thing, this is sort of thing that you will like? Yeah, tis true - and when I told a friend of mine that I couldn't find her to go to lecture, she was crushed! It depends on what makes you giggle.

Sounds dull, eh?

Re: colliding WIMPs and resulting positrons

[chhinnamasta]

Sounds dull, eh?

Not at all! I sounds exciting, to me, but I'm a hopeless knurd ;-)

This Fermi balloon in one of his slides was at 130,000 miles ? detecting an excess of positrons in that energy range.

and where can a knurd read more about this Fermi balloon?

Re: colliding WIMPs and resulting positrons

[chhinnamasta]

*It sounds exciting to me... in all the excitement I'm dropping T's!1!!