The Onion article...HILARIOUS!!! Bush...

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This is old article from Onion, but it's worth posting again!!!

Bush Finds Error In Fermilab Calculations

BATAVIA, IL–President Bush met with members of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory research team Monday to discuss a mathematical error he recently discovered in the famed laboratory's "Improved Determination Of Tau Lepton Paths From Inclusive Semileptonic B-Meson Decays" report.

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Bush shows Fermilab scientists where they went wrong in their calculations.

"I'm somewhat out of my depth here," said Bush, a longtime Fermilab follower who describes himself as "something of an armchair physicist." "But it seems to me that, when reducing the perturbative uncertainty in the determination of Vub from semileptonic Beta decays, one must calculate the rate of Beta events with a standard dilepton invariant mass at a subleading order in the hybrid expansion. The Fermilab folks' error, as I see it, was omitting that easily overlooked mathematical transformation and, therefore, acquiring incorrectly re-summed logarithmic corrections for the b-quark mass. Obviously, such a miscalculation will result in a precision of less than 25 percent in predicting the resulting path of the tau lepton once the value for any given decaying tau neutrino is determined." More...

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38718 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[deepthought42]

1. omg...

You know it's bad when there's a satirical article about B***, and he's "intelligent"! *sigh*

[never cry wolf]

2. Hahahaha, thanks... I was at Fermi when the top quark was announced

I was there for a meeting on a construction project the day they announced the discovery of the top quark. After my meeting I walked by the auditorium and grabbed a handout, a summary of their work. It was about 25 pages of stuff like below. It truly is a different language.

"But it seems to me that, when reducing the perturbative uncertainty in the determination of Vub from semileptonic Beta decays, one must calculate the rate of Beta events with a standard dilepton invariant mass at a subleading order in the hybrid expansion. The Fermilab folks' error, as I see it, was omitting that easily overlooked mathematical transformation and, therefore, acquiring incorrectly re-summed logarithmic corrections for the b-quark mass.

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3. Love The Onion!!! n/t

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4. The odd thing is, his assessment appears to be correct

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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5. Kick