Cold Summer, Mushrooms, Czech Wine, \(17\Mev\) Boson

Central Europe is experiencing 1 of the coldest Augusts inward recent memory. (For example, Czechia's summit together with oldest conditions station inward Prague-Klementinum broke the tape mutual depression temperature high for August 11th, previously from 1869.) But it's been dandy for mushroom pickers.



When you lot pass but an hr inward the forest, you lot may regain dozens of mushrooms similar to this one-foot-in-diameter bay bolete (Czech: hřib hnědý [brown], Pilsner Czech: podubák). I don't claim that nosotros broke the Czech record today.

Also, the New York Times ran a story on the Moravian (Southeastern Czechia's) wine featuring an entrepreneur who came from Commonwealth of Australia to meliorate the business. He reminds me of Josef Groll, the cheeky Bavarian brewmaster who was hired past times the dissatisfied dignified citizens of Pilsen inward 1842 together with improved the beer inward the metropolis past times four categories. Well, the departure is that the Moravian vino has never actually sucked, different Pilsen's beer, except for the Moravian beer served to the tourists from Prague, equally NYT too explains.

Hat tip: the U.S. ambassador.




More seriously, the April 2016 UC Irvine paper that showed much to a greater extent than confidence inward the bold 6.8-sigma claims most the evidence for a novel \(17\MeV\) approximate boson was published inward PRL, in all probability the most prestigious house where such papers may hold out published. UC Irvine released a press release to celebrate this publication.




Again, it would hold out wonderful if this novel boson existed. But people but about the Hungarian squad accept the tape of having made many similar claims inward the past times – I don't desire to become into details which people, how they overlapped, together with how many claims hither (see e.g. this discussion) – together with \(17\MeV\) is a typical unloosen energy from the government of nuclear physics which is a really messy emergent dependent acre of science. So there's a big risk that numerous observable effects inward this government may hold out misattributed together with misinterpreted.

The correct "X boson" to explicate the observation has to hold out "protophobic" – its interactions amongst electrons together with neutrons must hold out nonzero but its interactions amongst protons accept to vanish. This may expect extremely unnatural but perchance it's non together with then bad.