{"id":4343,"date":"2009-12-18T07:50:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/18\/still-in-the-dark-1\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T07:50:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:50:15","slug":"still-in-the-dark-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/18\/still-in-the-dark-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Still in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a physicist with a blog, I am contractually obligated to do a post on the CDMS<\/a> almost-a-result<\/a>. This is that post.<\/p>\n

The short version: they expected at most 0.8 events (that’s total events, not events per day, or anything– this is a whole community built on detecting nothing at all), and got 2, with maybe a third that was close to making the cut, but didn’t. I think Joe Fitzsimons on Twitter<\/a> summed it up best, writing:<\/p>\n

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Isn’t that the least informative number of events possible?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s more events than expected, but not enough to really be meaningful. The probability of this level of signal occurring by chance is around 23%, which is way too high to be significant, but low enough to be tantalizing.<\/p>\n

The big live presentation conflicted with SteelyKid’s pick-up from day care, so I didn’t watch it. If you’d like to simulate seeing the data presented live, there are liveblogging<\/a> posts<\/a> you can read at your leisure. If grumpiness is more your thing, Peter Woit has you covered<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a physicist with a blog, I am contractually obligated to do a post on the CDMS almost-a-result. This is that post. The short version: they expected at most 0.8 events (that’s total events, not events per day, or anything– this is a whole community built on detecting nothing at all), and got 2, with… Continue reading Still in the Dark<\/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":[10,19,33,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-experiment","category-in_the_news","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","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=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}