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And we all died. What? We didn't?
Science Buzz Move over Porn, Cern is gonna big bang the sh*t outta you. Scientists Record 1st Lead Ion Collisions in Atom Smasher in Search of Universe-Forming Quark-Gluon Plasma. SCIENCE!!
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Valentin Kuznetsov just presented a paper at the International Conference on Computational Science on CERN’s use of MongoDB for Large Hadron Collider data. The paper, The CMS Data Aggregation System, is available as a PDF at ScienceDirect.
David has some concerns over whether or not the “Large Hardon Collider” will create a wormhole, and if he should have a period costume ready just in case. Sounds like somebody is ready for the “birds and the bees” talk.
Science Buzz Science In The Making!! Everyone knows Particle Physics will kill us all, but at least they're letting us know about it in Real Time. “So far the beam seems stable”, though this morning they had a non-stable beam where everyone kinda freaked out. All you can hear is applause every time a beam becomes stable. This is better than the Super Bowl!
CERN has been using their twitter account to keep the public updated with the goings-on of the Large Hadron Collider. At least they were until they inadvertently ripped open a hole in space-time.
Science Buzz The particle community is abuzz right now with rumors that dark matter may have finally been discovered! Ha ha. I said “particle community.” Either way, dark matter is sure to be way, way, way cooler than regular matter, and if they have found it after all this time, I'm glad. Check the links for some slightly less ignorant analysis of this exciting rumor.
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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may create doors to other dimensions, according to Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN. That is it, man, that is IT! Unexplained breakdowns! Time traveling molecules! Birds attacking with baguettes! Dogs and cats living together!
http://io9.com/5327914/is-the-large-hadron-collider-cursed
Repairs on the Large Hadron Collider, which has been shut down since last September, were nearing completion and it was scheduled to restart next month. Except that two helium leaks were discovered, and the restart has been pushed back to November. Woo-hoo!! Two additional months of existence!!
Celebrity Buzz We should have seen this coming. When the Large Hadron Collider starts up again in September, Tom Hanks will be the one to switch it on. Then it will create a black hole and destroy the Earth. First that terrible haircut, now this. Why, Tom? Why??
Science Buzz The world’s largest particle collider is finally going online tomorrow morning. The first test will begin at about 3:30 a.m. ET — but stop worrying, the world’s not going to end! Unless we get hit by an asteroid at the same time.
It’s a rap about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Some are calling it the greatest physics rap of all time.
The super collider facility in Switzerland is about to go on-line. They’ll be starting smaller particle beaming experiments, working up to a full particle collision by the end of 2008. They’ll either solve some of the major problems of modern physics or tear a whole in space/time and end reality as we know it.
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
And you thought these reactions were bad. A million face palms is not…
