Philosopher and author AC Grayling is our special guest for this week's podcast as we discuss extraterrestrial life, free-thinking, Cern and climate change. Prof Grayling will be interviewing some of the world's top scientists in the coming weeks for a series called Exchanges at the Frontier on the BBC World Service . (2:00) To mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society , its president Prof Martin...
As if mini black holes that will destroy the planet are not enough, CERN is now being blamed for a mass human blackout where everyone sees a glimpse of their future for good or for worse. http://bit.ly/5qKdSH
CERN has restarted its quest to find the Higgs Boson a yet to be discovered elementary particle predicted by the standard model for unification of electromagnetic and weak interation forces. http://bit.ly/578FKq
Earlier this year, I spent a few days in Wyoming attending Launch Pad, a NASA-sponsored workshop for science fiction writers to help familiarize themselves with astronomy. It’s run by Mike Brotherton, himself an astronomer and science fiction author. It’s a great way for writers to learn more science, and pass it on to their readers. While [...]
Last weekend and this week, the LHC has accomplished many tasks: it first circulated two beams in opposite directions, then made them collide in the heart of the four giant detectors and finally slightly increased their energy. Virtual champagne to the hundreds of people working nights and days to repair the machine, prepare it for new start-up and finally operate it. Read More at CERN News
The Cern computer system displays images generated of the first collisions to take place in the Large Hadron Collider. CERN From The Independent: After 10 years – and £6bn – the first particles finally smash into each other in the Large Hadron Collider. After embarrassing breakdowns caused by bread-dropping birds and hugely expensive repairs, the world's biggest science experiment...
An anonymous reader sends in a CNet Crave interview with a working physicist at CERN. The interview is full of detail about what it’s like to work in this geek paradise (if a bit dumbed-down for an audience assumed not very technical).
World's First X-Ray (1895): Röntgen's wife hand World's First Skyscraper (1885): Home Insurance Building in Chicago World's First Web Server and Web Site (1990): a NeXT computer at CERN World's First Photograph (1826): "View from the Window at Le Gras" World's First Novel (1007): Tale of Genji World's First MP3 Player (1998): MPMan 32MB World's First Computer Mouse (1964): by Douglas...
An anonymous reader sends in a CNet Crave interview with a working physicist at CERN. The interview is full of detail about what it's like to work in this geek paradise (if a bit dumbed-down for an audience assumed not very technical). Dr. Paul Jackson, a particle physicist working on the LHC's Atlas experiment, says there's no chance of black holes wiping us out, and that the time travel speculation...
Need to impress a sexy physics fan or wow your boss with your massive brain? Our idiot's guide to the LHC will turn you into an expert in five easy steps
We interview one of the physicists looking for the Higgs boson at CERN. He talks to us about what it's like working at the geekiest place on Earth -- stand by for science!
By Paul Rincon, Science reporter, BBC News Engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have smashed together proton beams in the machine for the very first time. The low-energy collisions came after researchers circulated two beams simultaneously in the LHC's 27km-long tunnel earlier on Monday. Cern's director of communications, Dr James Gillies, said the first collisions had taken place just...
That's right folks, even bread and trying to destroy itself from the future can't keep the Large Hadron Collider from colliding. The beast recently made it's first low-power collision and, amazingly, you're still here to read this. And me to write it. So I guess we should both be thankful for that. Thanksgiving joke, HIYO! From CERN: Next on the schedule is an intense commissioning phase aimed at...
A first public seminar at CERN – standing room only – was held today (Thanksgiving Day, 26-Nov-2009). The slides from the talks are available here: INDICO web page. Steve Myers (CERN) kicked off the meeting with a pithy contrast of photos of a severely damaged set of magnets with a beautiful machine monitor trace showing [...]
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