A “standard” not shared completely on the Internet is not a workable tool for global collaboration
Freya Blekman @freyablekman #CMSPaper 1338 describes a precision measurement of the production rate of the quantum carriers of the weak force, the Z and W bosons. These measurements allow comparison and improvement of detailed understanding of the strong force in the standard model https://buff.ly/3ZaS4kI https://pic.x.com/593sfmughe
Replying to @freyablekman
A “standard” not shared completely on the Internet is not a workable tool for global collaboration
Freya, thank you for sharing. But your “standard model” is not accessible to people on the outside, so your improvements are not getting to anyone but insiders. I can guess at most of what you are not saying or sharing, but it is hard to recreate hundreds of little things from first principles, every time your group says something.
You might think it is open and “everyone can see” but it is not, when taken as a whole. A “standard model” that only a few ten thousand or a few hundred thousand can see completely is not really an open standard, an open tool for all. And I think you all are missing a few things that might make a difference, so it does matter, maybe a lot.
There are about 5.4 Billion using the Internet and another 2.8 Billion who are mostly left out. The CERN network of sites is not sharing properly, or at all, with the rest of the world. Perhaps you all are not aware of that. I hope it is not because “we do not care” or are doing it deliberately.
That movie “Hidden Figures” seems to point out the issues well. Discrimination and manipulation for personal gain are bad things when critical issues affecting the future, and human lives, are on the line.
The direct links are best. You should not go through social media sites, unless you also provide backups. Global open links would be better. Most groups never check user whole experiences. Your sharing depends on tiny little things at Arxiv and on the Internet, that often break because your group is not looking at the whole. And where you all say “we look at the whole”, then do not share the whole, that breaks things too.
Thank you for sharing this, I was looking for this information yesterday, but it is not easily searchable from the general Internet, since it is written for insiders. Not written so 5.4 Billion human Internet users can see clearly what you all are doing and trying to do.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03744
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
