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Gord Green · Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 12:30 pm Post subject: a Bigon

Discover Magazine reported that physicists had discovered a new fundamental particle of matter: the bigon. Like other recent particle finds, the bigon flutters in and out of existence in mere millionths of a second, they explained. But unlike the others, this one is the size of a bowling ball.

Physicist Albert Manque and his colleagues at the Centre de l'étude des Choses Assez Minuscules in Paris found the particle by accident, when a computer connected to one of their vacuum-tube experiments exploded.

"The physicists set up a video camera and repeated the experiment — with the same explosive results," Discover journalist Tim Folger wrote. "In one of the video frames a black bowling-ball-size object hovered above the wreckage of the computer. In the next frame it was gone."

"The researchers believe that the electric field in the vacuum tube somehow altered the energy state of the vacuum inside the cathode-ray tube in the nearby computer monitor. No vacuum is truly empty — virtual particles, most of them quite small, continually burst into existence and then dissolve back into the void. The physicists believe that they accidentally generated an electric field of just the right size in the computer to nudge a new particle — a bigon — into being," Folger wrote.

This fostered claims that the bigon might be responsible for a host of unexplained phenomena such as ball lightning, sinking souffles, and spontaneous human combustion, UFOs, and toilets that flush themselves!

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:24 pm Post subject:

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This puts me in mind of a very old saying:

"Let the buyer beware!"

No, wait. That's not it. Ummm . . . oh, right!

"Let sleeping dogs lie!"

Damn, that can't be it either. What is that old saying?

Ah-ha!

"Let go of what you love. If it loves you, it will come back. It it doesn't . . . hunt it down and kill it!"

Oh, crap. I give up. Rolling Eyes

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Gord Green · Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:32 pm Post subject:

Well, it gives you the answer to the question :

"Do you have a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

You can say "It's just a Bigon!"

APRIL FOOL #2

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 2:53 pm Post subject:

Andrew Kidd · Planetary Explorer Joined: 20 Feb 2016 Posts: 44

This was an April Fool's joke in their magazine from about twenty years ago or so.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:28 pm Post subject:

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Yes, indeed. This clever joke was first presented here —

The Bigon | DiscoverMagazine.com

— on April 01, 1996, but we're certainly glad we got to enjoy it 21 years later, right here on All Sci-Fi.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Gord Green · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:43 pm Post subject:

Everything old is new again......