LHC - Large Hadron Collider

With the Large Hadron Collider almost ready to turn on, it’s time to prepare ourselves for what it might find. (The real experts, of course, have been preparing themselves for this for many years!) Chad Orzel was asked what we should expect from the LHC, and I thought it would be fun to give my [...]

Engineers had previously brought a beam of protons - tiny, sub-atomic particles - to the “doorstep” of the LHC.
On 9 August, protons will be piped through LHC magnets for the first time.
The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the LHC will re-create the conditions present in the Universe just after the Big Bang.
There are over [...]

CHIEF Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday held that the government could not acquire a piece of land purchased through remittances by a foreign or Pakistani investor whether the acquisition is for public purpose or not.
The CJ has observed that under the Protection of Economic Reforms Act 1992, the government [...]

The latest version of the SETI radio show Are We Alone has a segment with Seth Shostak and me talking about the Large Hadron Collider (it’s part of our regular feature, Brains On Vacation).
Here’s the MP3 .

Engineers at CERN are making the final touches to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the biggest experiment in particle physics — and expect to have it running in the first half of July. Although the start-up schedule of the European particle accelerator has slipped by over a month since the last official announcement, there [...]

Well I’m going to be really busy with exams until June, so here’s something just so that it doesn’t seem like I’m neglecting this blog.
http://www.lhcountdown.com/
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I came across a bizarre paper recently suggesting that the LHC might be shut down. Not because of the funding cuts that have been threatening particle physics projects around the world, nor because of law suits accusing the LHC of threatening life on Earth. (Not even because we at the LHC have recently been accused [...]

Is there life after CERN? Will a black hole swallow the earth? Such titled PM magazine in its July issue that my husband bought and kindly showed to me upon my arrival in Germany. He means well, I should add, my blood pressure is often too low, especially after long-distance flights, and in such condition [...]

Been having a tough time figuring out just what CERN’s Large Hadron Collider does? Worried that it will create a Möbius strip (a rip in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop)? Just love to jam? Watch this CERN-sponsored rap after the break, and have your universe totally destroyed. Er, but not for [...]