AsAChemicalEngineer

Hi! I met you at the Phoenix com-icon back in May, chatted with you for a bit, but I couldn't help but sense that it was kinda like the scene from A Christmas Story where the kid meets his hero and just doesn't know what to say.

You kinda spend the whole time cracking jokes at my expense, but it's all good. :D Anyway, is there anything in particular you like to talk about when fan meet you? Anything to avoid, or topics which are good so that we get the most out of meeting you?

We're looking for all kinds of crazy things at the LHC. As experimentalists, which predictions by theorists does everybody like best?

Are you hoping for SuperSymmetry?

Extra dimensions?

Dark matter candidate?

Which triggers do you have your eye on?

The mass of each black hole was approximately 30 solar masses. This is an unusually large size compared the the largest stellar black hole I know about M33 X-7 at around 16 solar masses. If accurate does this tell us something new about stellar black holes and how big they can be formed?

Also, was the spin of the secondary black hole constrained enough to estimate the recoil/kick from the merger? Could this merger have ejected the final black hole from its galaxy?

I want to thank you for doing such a great AMA. :)

That is the best scream ever uttered.