Posted on 05/16/2010 12:45:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ya know one day man is really gonna screw the pooch
186,000 miles per second. It’s not just a good idea. It’s the Law.
True religion and true science go hand in hand. Religion absent science is superstition, science absent religion is atheism. Truth is truth. Anything other than truth is error.
Excellent article.
One of the most interesting things I’ve read about CERN, is that the vacuum chamber (or whatever it’s called) inside the LHC, is the coldest place in the universe - assuming of course “someone” someplace else hasn’t artificially created something colder.
Really?? I would think it would be liquid helium which is much colder and also nonflammable/explosive! Simple mistakes like this take away from the overall believability of the article.
I don't know about the validity of the timeline he's using, but the author certainly used the proper technical term when he wrote
"the creation of our universe"
Cf. Vonnegut’s SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE ... “This is the way the world ends. It’s the way it always has ended, and it’s the way it always will end.” (I.e. A test of a Tralfamadorian propulsion system gone wrong. )
Why we exist when we really shouldn’t.
We exist because we really should.
As someone once noted, “It all depends on the meaning of is”.
I believe in the Genesis machine cuz, “I can feel it in the air tonight. Oh, Lord.”
And the earth was without form, and void;
Please draw for me a formless void.
Yep, it's helium, superfluid helium, to be precise.
"LEP was closed down at the end of 2000 to make way for the construction of the LHC in the same tunnel. This liberated most of the existing cryogenic infrastructure from LEP for further use and upgrading for the LHC, which will require the largest 1.8 K refrigeration and distribution system in the world to cool some 1800 superconducting magnet systems distributed around the 27 km long tunnel (see CERN Courier January/February 2004 p27). A total of 37,500 tonnes has to be cooled to 1.9 K, requiring about 96 tonnes of helium, two-thirds of which is used for filling the magnets.Although normal liquid helium at 4.5 K would be able to cool the magnets so that they become superconducting, the LHC will use superfluid helium at the lower temperature of 1.8 K to improve the performance of the magnets. The magnets are cooled by making use of the very efficient heat-transfer properties of superfluid helium, and kilowatts of refrigeration power are transported over more than 3 km with a temperature difference of less than 0.1 K.
Ice9 had the same feel...
He lost me with, "Sub-atomic particles called protons whiz around the tunnel in opposite directions until reaching darn close to nature's speed limit" .
Would a picture of a transparent zero do?
When we figure out the E=mc2 equation for “consciousness”, we’ll have a much better understanding of the universe that we are of.
Admittedly a lot of this stuff is over my head, but one thing I do know - “Ye can’t mix matter with anti-matter.”
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