OCT-3 Cern started the GRID network, 7000 scientists are linked to evaluate Data from the LHC collider, or popular the "Big Bang Machine". Desktop computers paticipate in that Super-Internet Event. Cern originally...
Serious number crunching to be a co-CERN project !Grid computing is changing science the world over."CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the...
We have waited a long time for this historic moment - testing the laws of nature and the cosmos, including the validity of the Big Bang Theory. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, based in Geneva,...
Testing if the Beam goes round (27km)What happens, if anything goes wrong? now or years later ?US contributed $ 531 million to the experimentIf anything goes wrong, means the BigBang beam gets out of control, the...
"An Australian physicist says a science experiment which begins in Switzerland today is a major milestone in the history of scientific discovery. Scientists have built a 27-kilometre long underground circular tunnel that houses the Large Hadron Collider, which will allow...
"When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins smashing protons together this fall inside its 17-mile- (27-kilometer-) circumference underground particle racetrack near Geneva, Switzerland, it will usher in a new era...
Update science talkBlack hole scientists trustworthy ? Who has confidence in this scientists working on this "Nuclear" style project. What education do they have to tell the truth good or bad. Why so less TV...
"GENEVA - Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to restage a mini-version underground of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago, the project chief said on...
"NASA unveiled a new launch schedule today that calls for eight shuttle missions in 2009 and 2010 and 10 overall before the nation's three-orbiter fleet is retired.The last of the missions now is slated to launch May 31, 2010 -- which would leave enough time to launch an...
Well, that's one less thing to worry about. If we did disappear down a black hole, it would probably be over pretty quickly anyway."Earth 'not at risk' from collider ...
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I know I can rest easy now... well, easier. "Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded....Critics have previously raised concerns that the production of weird hypothetical particles called strangelets... could...
When the world's most powerful subatomic particlecollider begins gathering data this summer, it will be a majormilestone for a number of University of Washington scientists. The UW, led by professors Henry Lubatti inphysics and Colin Daly in...
How do you stop a driven team of scientists from firing up a doomsday machine that will suck the entire planet into an alternate universe? Sue them. True story."he builders of the world's biggest particle collider...
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Let's hope the Big Bang Machine won't unlock the secrets of the universe by accidentally destroying the earth."GENEVA - A 100-tonne wheel, the last piece of an ambitious experiment that scientists hope will help...
"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental...