LHC countdown going strong

Further to my earlier post on the Large Hadron Collider, CERN is all set to turn on the world’s biggest machine this coming Wednesday, the 10th of September. The countdown and other information on the launch can be read here, where CERN welcomes the first beam! In the meantime – the scientists behind LHC are getting death threats and legal cases from doomsdayers and other scientists who believe the experiment will go out of hand and cau... (read post)

Our understanding of the Universe is about to change…

After a quarter of a century of dreaming and planning, designing and building, at last we are about to see the world’s largest and the highest-energy particle accelerator (LHC) in action – on 10th September 2008. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic (27-kilometre) scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle acceleratorused by physicists to study the smallest known pa... (read post)

Calvin minus imagination

Two different versions of the same Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. The original: http://www.gocomics.com/feature_items/explore?page=1&tag=5523 Without Calvin’s imagination: http://popsicklestrip.com/s/ch-i/ What a difference…It is extremely depressing to see this comic strip ’stripped’ of its imagination. ... (read post)