{"id":6033,"date":"2012-02-15T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T07:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/15\/links-for-2012-02-15\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T07:34:11","slug":"links-for-2012-02-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/15\/links-for-2012-02-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2012-02-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/profmattstrassler.com\/articles-and-posts\/largehadroncolliderfaq\/whats-a-proton-anyway\/proton-collisions-vs-quarkgluonantiquark-mini-collisions\/'>Proton Collisions Vs. Quark\/Gluon\/Antiquark Mini-Collisions | Of Particular Significance<\/a>\n<p>Keep in mind that the total number of 7 TeV = 7000 GeV proton-proton collisions that took place in ATLAS while they were accumulating the data for the plot above was about 100,000,000,000,000.  [The total 2011 data set was 5 times larger, but the corresponding plot won&#8217;t appear for a few months.]  Of all these collisions, just two had mini-collisions that passed above 3500 GeV &#8212; half the collision energy of the protons.  In principle the energy of the mini-collisions can go up all the way to 7000 GeV, but the probability goes down and down, and it is so rare to get a 6000 GeV mini-collision that chances are we wouldn&#8217;t get one even with 100 times this much data.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.joerg.heber.name\/2012\/02\/13\/why-fancy-illustrations-are-so-wrong\/'>Why fancy illustrations are so wrong | All that matters<\/a>\n<p>Nanotechnology is a wonderful science that has pushed functional devices to sizes not far away from the size of atoms. So small that if you want to image such structures, even a conventional electron microscope wouldn&#8217;t get you far. There is no way to directly see what is going on. This is a common problem. Take condensed matter physics &#8211; it is impossible to directly visualize the various interactions and events taking place inside a crystal. Or photonics, where complex light fields interact with tiny nanostructures in ways that can be really difficult to visualize, especially in real-time. So, no wonder that artificial graphics often serve to illustrate a scientific concept or a certain device. And with the prevalence of advanced computer graphics programs such illustrations are becoming more and more fancy. In my opinion, this is a dangerous trend, because such graphics increasingly distort the underlying science they try to depict.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2012\/02\/the-jeremy-lin-backlash\/253076\/'>The Jeremy Lin Backlash &#8211; Ta-Nehisi Coates &#8211; Entertainment &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>\n<p>It does not take incredible reasoning skills to understand that race and talent&#8211;as explanatory factors&#8211;are not mutually exclusive. In other words, it could that Jeremy Lin is Asian, and that he&#8217;s talented. But I suspect that it&#8217;s that Lin is Asian-American, and that he&#8217;s not a big man, and that he&#8217;s playing in New York, and that he went to Harvard, and that he was undrafted, and that he is talented. It&#8217;s true that if he were black this would probably be a smaller story, but if he weren&#8217;t talented it would not be be a story at all.  I&#8217;m not sure why that&#8217;s wrong, or even unfair.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton Collisions Vs. Quark\/Gluon\/Antiquark Mini-Collisions | Of Particular Significance Keep in mind that the total number of 7 TeV = 7000 GeV proton-proton collisions that took place in ATLAS while they were accumulating the data for the plot above was about 100,000,000,000,000. [The total 2011 data set was 5 times larger, but the corresponding plot&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/15\/links-for-2012-02-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2012-02-15<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033","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=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}