Watch CERN LHC Live Webcast
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Apparently GroovyGecko is providing a live video feed of Large Hadron Collider for the September 10th initialization. You can watch the live webcast at CERN’s webcast channel.
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Killer Photos of the Large Hadron Collider
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Now that’s a big magnet! Below is a gigantic magnet which is part of an end cap to the ATLAS particle detector in the Large Hadron Collider, set to begin tests early this month. To help marvel at its beauty, Boston.com has published an article with an awesome set of pictures of the LHC to show you just how massive and glorious this thing truly is. Link to article and photos.
If you are not familiar with the LHC, check out the wiki here.
Physics - Illusions of Reality
Friday, July 18th, 2008Here are a couple of videos which, if you have not seen before, are guaranteed to blow your mind. If you have never ventured into the world of physics and quantum mechanics, then forget everything you thought you knew about reality. As humans, we tend to simply accept our reality as we hear, touch, feel, taste, and see it, however there is a whole underlying world that is much more exotic and much more complicated than the illusions generated by our perceptions.
The first video is a BBC special called “The Illusion of Reality” in which Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s takes you on a journey by exploring the building blocks of our universe, Atoms. In this 58min documentary, he will guide you down a path of science and discovery that will most likely end with you re-evaluating your philosophy of what is real.
The second video is a short clip called “The Double Slit Experiment” which is a simplified, animated, re-creation of the experiment which sheds a little more light on the “Measurement Problem” which is brought up briefly in the first video.
