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CERN rap video about the Large Hadron Collider

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:50:29 +0000

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 real.

Did Nostradamus predict the LHC will create a Black Hole?

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:27:18 +0000

An Inside Look at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

admin — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:44:03 +0000

In this first part, of two (second part will be up soon) we meet Dr. Frank E. Taylor, a senior research scientist at MIT who is now working at CERN on their new Large Hadron Collider. This is a huge machine, 27 kilometers long, that is expected to do major scientific work over the next few years, including finding the Higgs Boson particle. The Higgs is also called the God particle, which is responsible for mass. At least that’s the theory. He talks about the ATLAS detector, Taylor works on the Muon System, which is a component of the Atlas experiment. This is also the birthplace of the Web, without which you wouldn’t be able to watch this video about the LHC.

Read more here.

CERN Adventure: the video

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:51:28 +0000

It’s difficult to express just how fracking impressive the Large Hadron Collider is. You really have to be there to understand how overwhelming and ginormous it is. Still and all, maybe the video I took of the tour will help get the idea across (if you go to that YouTube page, there is a link right under the video that allows you to watch it in higher quality. I recommend doing that).

ATLAS and CMS are detectors, built to detect the shrapnel from the collisions of protons moving just a whisper slower than light itself. For the cast of characters and a description of this tour, take a look at my earlier post describing it. There are pictures there from the journey as well.

From here.

Big Bang v2.0

admin — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:24:56 +0000

Dr Brian Cox takes us on a tour of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva – the biggest, most complicated machine ever built. It’s costing millions of pounds and has thousands of scientists from around the world waiting to use it as part of the biggest scientific experiment ever attempted. Once switched on, it will allow scientists to recreate the conditions that existed in the first moments after the Big Bang. The film also features Brian and other CERN scientists explaining what results they hope will emerge from the most exciting scientific experiment of our time.

Inside the LHC!

admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:33:42 +0000

Video that show the inside workings of the ATLAS detector of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using animation. Science aside for a moment (and you can learn about it in the posts listed below), remember that the LHC is simply the largest and most complicated device ever constructed, with the largest team of scientists assembled.

From asymptotia.

CERN and the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)

admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:24:20 +0000

This video talks about the collimators used in the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. The LHC is the biggest supercollider in the world and is also be largest machine in the world. Engineers at CERN chose National Instruments products to control the collimators.

Tour of the LHC (underground accelerator) at CERN

admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:19:05 +0000

A video giving a tour of the LHC (underground accelerator) at CERN. Measuring 27km in circumference, it will become the world’s largest particle accelerator. The first beams are due for injection mid-June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later. The LHC will become the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.