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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Design Luminosity

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:13 pm

Peter Woit today

"At CERN the LHC has reached design luminosity,* and is
breaking records with a fast pace of new collisions. This may
have something to do with the report that the LHC is also 
about to tear open a portal to another dimension." 

See also the following figure from the Log24 Bion posts

— and Greg Egan's short story "Luminous":

"The theory was, we’d located part of the boundary
between two incompatible systems of mathematics –
both of which were physically true, in their respective
domains. Any sequence of deductions which stayed
entirely on one side of the defect – whether it was the
'near side', where conventional arithmetic applied, or
the 'far side', where the alternative took over – would
be free from contradictions. But any sequence which
crossed the border would give rise to absurdities –
hence S could lead to not-S."

Greg Egan, Luminous
   (Kindle Locations 1284-1288). 

* See a definition.

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