Re:Can Foundational Physics Be Saved?
by XorNot on Sunday December 16, 2018 @08:19AM
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The trigger mechanisms aren't throwing away "data which doesn't fit" - they're throwing away data which does. That's the point - the vast majority of CERN's output is going to be extremely common events we'd expect to see all the time.
No one is setting these things up to go "hmm a particle on a totally unusual trajectory - but not where the Higgs should be so junk it".
No one is setting these things up to go "hmm a particle on a totally unusual trajectory - but not where the Higgs should be so junk it".