jeudi, septembre 11, 2008 Recreating the Big Bang: Old News So apparently we've/CERN's managed to successfully smash to protons together, after spending $3.8 billion flinging them 17 miles round and round and round somewhere in Switzerland.Yay. Now what? "Now that the beam has been successfully tested in clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise."  Gee whiz! No kidding! COUNTER-clockwise! You could knock me over with a feather."Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe." You put your left hand in, you put your left hand out, you put your left hand in, and you shake it all about... no? And we're also building a good camera that's fast enough to capture this "split second" right? (Might be a picture of God.) Oh, and of COURSE, because what's life without a little penis envy, Fermi (another geek lab in Illinois) claims to have beat them in this "race" - but with "Omega b baryon, a cousin of the proton". Of course, nobody understands this gobbledegook, so they took pains to explain it to us neaderthals: "Omega b bayon is a distant cousin of the proton and neutron from which the universe is made... along with electrons...Protons and neutrons are the lightest elements in the baryon family, but Omega b is six times heavier than a proton." Source: Associated Press, 10 Sept 2008, Largest particle collider conducts successful test http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5nGPtmoUVIJDgehVJ_snD6vDA6gD933R4B80 EE Times, 11 Sept 2008, Particle race: US lab tops CERN, http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210601016 Libellés : current affairs, humour, issues [Recreating the Big Bang: Old News] |
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