{"id":18,"date":"2006-01-15T15:20:18","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T15:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/15\/needles-in-haystacks-are-nothi\/"},"modified":"2006-01-15T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T15:20:18","slug":"needles-in-haystacks-are-nothi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/15\/needles-in-haystacks-are-nothi\/","title":{"rendered":"Needles in Haystacks Are Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>A while back, I<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/principles\/2005_10_09_principlearchive.php#112925134666350253\"> talked about a colloquium<\/A> where Steven Boughn of Haverford argued that it&#8217;s practically impossible to detect a single graviton. It was a very nice talk, relying mostly on simple dimensional analysis arguments, and very basic physics.<\/p>\n<p><P>Today, via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/wbtsm.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/further-reading.html\">Wolfgang Beirl<\/A> (via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/mixedstates.somethingsimilar.com\/\">Mixed States<\/A>), I see that Boughn and Tony Rothman <A HREF=\"http:\/\/xxx.lanl.gov\/abs\/gr-qc\/0601043\">have a paper on the porn server<\/A> about graviton detection. It&#8217;s got a bunch more math, but the conclusion is the same.<\/p>\n<p><P>It&#8217;s a clever paper, and worth a look if you&#8217;re into this sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I talked about a colloquium where Steven Boughn of Haverford argued that it&#8217;s practically impossible to detect a single graviton. It was a very nice talk, relying mostly on simple dimensional analysis arguments, and very basic physics. Today, via Wolfgang Beirl (via Mixed States), I see that Boughn and Tony Rothman have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/15\/needles-in-haystacks-are-nothi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Needles in Haystacks Are Nothing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}