Really, really beautiful!

Big ups to those folks at CERN. Having cranked up the system to start producing 7TeV collisions they've announced the detection of a B+ particle, or Beautiful Particle. Apparently it stayed in existence for only about 15 thousandths of a nanosecond however before decaying so one wouldn't even have had time to blink before it was gone.

Just to give an idea of how hard this particle is to spot, it took around 10 million proton-proton collisions to generate a detectable emission. That's some going.

If you thought this was a great demonstration of how humanity is advancing then be aware that the beasts are starting to catch us up; last week an article showing crows using no less than three tools to get to some food hit the news. That's more than my next door neighbours who only use one: a phone to contact the pizza delivery company.
It may be harsh to describe them as dinosaurs but it makes me laugh.