Is this how some people felt about the LHC being turned on?
Three month treasury bills are being sold at negative interest rate this morning.
Krugman, professionally, is fascinated
I am also terrified.
At least with the LHC I knew, professionally, that the doomsday scenarios were impossible.
Economists think liquidity traps ought to not happen, nowadays, so it must be professionally fascinating to see what looks like one developing before your eyes.
Be like seeing the apparent development of an event horizon or vacuum phase transition.
In person.
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So, I was thinking, where are the cold alien intelligences who ought to be out there, studying us dispassionately, as if we were microbes...?
Well, what if we accidentally killed them all?
No, really.
Back in late July, I got email from a writer for Physics World magazine (which is sort of the UK equivalent of Physics Today), asking my opinion on a few questions relating to particle physics funding.
Hector writes in and asks about someone from Sheffield in the UK who says that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will create Dark Matter:
LHC Shows the Way workshop: general colloquium reviewing the LHC and the Higgs discovery.
Kyle Cramner from NYU: "We discovered the goddamned particle"
More slow live blog.
Cute opening video of LHC construction.
Yikes, the Bank of My Mattress is starting to look like an attractive place to deposit cash.
The reaction was to this week's money market fund blowup. From that fund alone, about $2B went to money heaven. Let's not talk about how our stock funds are doing this week. Lots of folks aren't worrying about return on capital anymore; they're worried about return of capital.
Interesting take from Mr. Black Swan.