Mchigan professor (Gordon Kane) beats Stephen Hawking in a bet!

[goldenboy8784]

<p>It turns out that 11 of Duke’s 56 physicists, not including emeriti professors, are involved in the search either at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Fermilab or at both facilities.</p>

<p>[Duke's</a> deep bench scores on the Higgs boson search | Duke University Research](<a href=“http://research.duke.edu/stories/dukes-deep-bench-scores-higgs-boson]Duke’s”>http://research.duke.edu/stories/dukes-deep-bench-scores-higgs-boson)</p>

<p>[Elusive</a> Higgs Particle May No Longer Be Hiding | Duke Today](<a href=“http://today.duke.edu/2012/07/higgs712]Elusive”>Elusive Higgs Particle May No Longer Be Hiding | Duke Today)</p>

<p>Perhaps no school is more involved in the hunt than Duke.;)</p>

[Sparkeye7]

<p>By 2020, the American Nuclear Scientists will no longer have to travel all the way to Switzerland. Many will accept the appointment at NSCL / FRIB - the most advanced atom accelerated collider facility for rare isotope research in the nation. </p>

<p>MSU is planning to recruit 400 top nuclear scientists from around the globe with the capacity of another 2,000 international interface users for visiting scholars. Some top nuclear researchers from Stanford’s SLAC had joined the school last year, we certainly welcome Duke and Michigan’s top scientists to East Lansing as well. :p</p>

<p><a href=“http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2012/01/b15c3c85-eef7-435a-850b-6094f4693a95.pdf[/url]”>http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2012/01/b15c3c85-eef7-435a-850b-6094f4693a95.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Thanks to Higgs-Boson’s recent highly touted global publicity, MSU’s FRIB budget is set to be quadrupled from $1.5 billion spending to at least $5 billion by completion. The project was initially planned for $500-million. It is currently at $680-million due to inflation and add-on costs. The research funding is also set to increase from the initial $100 million DOE + $20 million NSF = $120 million to $250 million annual research funding in order to stay competitive to its European counterpart - LHC @ CERN. </p>

<p>#1 in Nuclear Physics </p>

<p>[Best</a> Nuclear Physics Programs | Top Physics Schools | US News Best Graduate Schools](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/nuclear-science-rankings]Best”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/nuclear-science-rankings)</p>

<p>Live FRIB Construction Site Camera</p>

<p>[Live</a> Site Camera - View from the West | frib.msu.edu](<a href=“http://www.frib.msu.edu/content/live-site-camera-view-west]Live”>FRIB | Facility for Rare Isotope Beams | Michigan State University)</p>

<p>*FRIB - The holy grail of the next generation Atom Smasher. Project won from the hands of Stanford, Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and MIT. </p>

<p>

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The National Research Council says Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams project should remain a major priority.</p>

<p>A report issued June 27 by the NRC outlines the accomplishments of the nuclear physics field during the last decade and recommends a strategy for the future, including, as its first recommendation, “the timely completion of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and the initiation of its physics program.”</p>

<p>The report calls FRIB “a major new strategic investment in nuclear science. It will have unique capabilities and offers opportunities to answer fundamental questions about the inner workings of the atomic nucleus, the formation of the elements in our universe, and the evolution of the cosmos.”

</p>

<p><a href=“http://news.msu.edu/story/national-science-panel-calls-msu-s-frib-project-a-top-priority/[/url]”>http://news.msu.edu/story/national-science-panel-calls-msu-s-frib-project-a-top-priority/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Go State!! :)</p>

[Sparkeye7]

<p>Michigan Leaders Unite to Support Rare Isotope Accelerator Initiative, Announces Michigan State University</p>

<p>Honorary Chair:
Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States</p>

<pre><code> Co-Chairs:
Donna Banks, Senior VP for Research, Kellogg Corporation
James Barrett, President, Michigan Chamber of Commerce
Mark Gaffney, President, Michigan AFL-CIO
David Hollister, Mayor, City of Lansing

Steering Group:
Dennis Archer, Chairman, Dickinson Wright PLLC
Lu Battaglieri, President, Michigan Education Association
J.T. Battenberg, CEO, Delphi Automotive
Kenneth Burnley, CEO, Detroit Public Schools
Mary Sue Coleman, President, The University of Michigan
Paula Cunningham, President, Lansing Community College
Dick DeVos, President, ALTICOR
Michael Duggan, Wayne County Prosecutor
Michelle Engler, First Lady, State of Michigan
Dan Gaydou, Publisher, Grand Rapids Press
Paul Hillegonds, CEO, Detroit Renaissance
James Hoffa, President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Michael Jandernoa, Chairman, Perrigo
Frank Kelley, Partner, Kelley Cawthorne
Kwame Kilpatrick, Mayor, City of Detroit
Mary Kramer, Editor, Crain’s Detroit Business
Ed McNamara, Wayne County Executive
Heath Meriwether, Publisher, The Detroit Free Press
Eugene Miller, Chairman, Comerica
L. Brooks Patterson, Oakland County Executive
Randall Pittman, CEO, Forest Health Services Corp.;
Member, MSU Board of Trustees
Philip Power, Chairman, Hometown Communications Network
Irvin Reid, President, Wayne State University
Doug Rothwell, CEO, MEDC
Peter Secchia, Chairman, Universal Forest Products
Mark Silverman, Publisher & Editor, The Detroit News
Robert Teeter, President, Coldwater Corporation
Kenneth Way, Chairman, Lear Corporation
Rick Wagoner, CEO, General Motors
</code></pre>

<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/michigan-leaders-unite-to-support-rare-isotope-accelerator-initiative-announces-michigan-state-university-76236712.html[/url]”>http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/michigan-leaders-unite-to-support-rare-isotope-accelerator-initiative-announces-michigan-state-university-76236712.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Although Ford pardoned Nixon in the Watergate scandal, I still give him credit for participated in the support to bring FRIB (formerly known as the RIA Project) to the state of Michigan. Unlike the current F-RIB which is to be constructed on Michigan State’s Main Campus underneath the current NSCL site, RIA was to be constructed on the 2,700 acres of MSU South Campus.</p>

<p>“Higgs Boson Particle” was theorised by R. Brout, F. Englert, P. Higgs, G. S. Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and T. W. B. Kibble back in 1964. I believe there is only 1 American present in this group, whose an alumnus of Harvard & MIT. And since only 3 people maximum are allowed to receive the prestigious Nobel Prize, my hope for the future American Nobel Laureate in this particular field will rest in the hand of MSU’s facility.</p>

[MichorPlan2]

<p>Between the two teams searching for the Higgs Bosen, there were 6,000 scientists involved. Virtually every major research university will be able to claim credit, as they should. Noone here was saying that UM was or should be taking all the credit. This thread was only about a bet between a UM professor and Hawkings. Are you UM haters from Duke, MSU and other schools, that desperate to find something to hate about UM that your reduced to arguing . . . Actually, I don’t know what the f^&* you are arguing. What is your point again?</p>

[Alexandre]

<p>Hehe! Well said MichorPlan2. The purpose of this thread was to share a funny, if not whimsical, story about Michigan, on an exclusively University of Michigan forum, purely for the entertainment of Michigan alums and students. It was not intended to:</p>

<ol>
<li>Demonstate or prove how good Michigan is as a university, as meon seems to think</li>
<li>Infer that a large percentage of the population cares about this story, as Bearcats so delicately pointed out</li>
</ol>

<p>I do not mind the Duke and MSU partisans who proubly point out their universities’ involvement in the Higgs boson discovery, but again, this threat is intended to be fun.</p>

[meonconfidential]

<ol>
<li>“It would seem that several Michigan faculty and students have worked at CERN in the Higgs boson project. Yet again, Michigan proves its quality.”</li>
</ol>

<p>-It seems as if I saw a claim there that no one else saw. </p>

<ol>
<li>“There is at least one other poster who shares identical details with another poster who comes from the same city in Asia. This is not an accusation, it is fact. You have two identities. I am concealing the country and your alternate identity for your own sake.” </li>
</ol>

<p>-I think you are saying, because the other person created an account from the city I did, he and I should be the same. And, in fact, you should remember that my first post was also a direct accusation on you and it got deleted. </p>

<p>Facts are not disputable. And they are certain.</p>

<ol>
<li>" Do you seriously expect anyone to believe the sincerity of your remarks? "
-You were the one to point out:
meonconfidential
New Member</li>
</ol>

<p>Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 1</p>

[Alexandre]

<p>“I think you are saying, because the other person created an account from the city I did, he and I should be the same.”</p>

<p>meon, you do not merely share the same city as another poster, you share the identical IP address (in other words, the same computer and address). As Super Moderator, I can actually verify this sort of detail.</p>

<p>“And, in fact, you should remember that my first post was also a direct accusation on you and it got deleted.”</p>

<p>I did not delete any of your posts so far. All four of your posts in this thread are intact. Please show me which post I deleted. You are correct in one thing however, you are accusing me, pointlessly I may add. </p>

<p>"You were the one to point out:
meonconfidential
New Member</p>

<p>Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 1 "</p>

<p>I did not point that out. I believe that was rjkofnovi, and his observation was certainly valid.</p>

<p>“It seems as if I saw a claim there that no one else saw”</p>

<p>Not really. It is just that your point is very petty. My pointing out that dozens of faculty and students are working on the Higgs boson in CERN is such an insignificant achievement compared to other Michigan milestones. Just looking at Michigan’s academic rankings, which have been posted in a thread above, should make it clear that this thread was not intended to be a statement of Michigan’s excellence. Like I said, this thread was intended as a fun diversion for Michigan alums and students. It was posted in the official CC Michigan forum. Your reaction was unjustified, particularly if your claim that it forced you out of three years of silence is true!</p>

[rjkofnovi]

<p>“meon, you do not merely share the same city as another poster, you share the identical IP address (in other words, the same computer and address). As Super Moderator, I can actually verify this sort of detail.”</p>

<p>Just suspend him already Alexandre. I say three years should do it. It’s not like it will effect him anyway. I mean according to meonconfidential it took him that long to send his first post anyway, right? He will still be able to read about the achievements at Michigan, so it won’t be too harsh of a punishment. lol</p>

[Sparkeye7]

<p>I was recently threaten with CC suspension only because I posted a one sentence response politely requesting a thread to be re-instated to the general discussion forum… Alex is too nice as a Mod. This is certainly not overreacting, but “meonconfidential” should be suspended imho!! lol</p>