Planet Libre LHC - What is the Grid? LHC Computing Grid Globe (Credit: CERN) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. Based at the European particle physics laboratory CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland, it is the world’s largest laboratory and is dedicated to the pursuit of fundamental science. The LHC allows scientists to reproduce the conditions that existed within a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Scientists recreate these conditions by colliding beams of high-energy protons or ions at close to the speed of light. On 4 July 2012 two of the experiments on the LHC, ATLAS and CMS, announced that they had detected a Higgs-like Boson.
Tottenham news Rafael van der Vaart claims Spurs can beat anyone ahead of trip to Manchester United on Monday Tottenham star Rafael van der Vaart has warned their Monday night opponents Manchester United: We can beat anyone right now. The Dutch midfielder sparked a 5-0 demolition of hapless Hearts in the first leg of Spurs' Europa League qualifier on Thursday night. United will obviously present a far tougher task at Old Trafford, with Sir Alex Ferguson's men battle-hardened from two tough early-season games against Manchester City and West Brom. Spurs, however, were victorious in Scotland without SIX first-team midfielders and with 21-year-old rookie Jake Livermore partnering Niko Kranjcar in the middle of the park. "We have a good squad and when we play like we did [against Hearts] we know we can win against everybody," said Van der Vaart. Jermain Defoe, Livermore, Gareth Bale and Aaron Lennon all added to Van der Vaart's opener to give Tottenham a dream start to the new season, having had their opening Premier League game against Everton cancelled because of the riots.
SETI@home The Open NFC Project LHC - The Particle Detectives LHC Computing Grid Globe (Credit: CERN) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. Based at the European particle physics laboratory CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland, it is the world’s largest laboratory and is dedicated to the pursuit of fundamental science. The LHC allows scientists to reproduce the conditions that existed within a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. This is the moment, around 14 billion years ago, when the Universe is believed to have started with an explosion of energy and matter. During this first moment of time the particles and forces that shaped our Universe came into existence. Scientists recreate these conditions by colliding beams of high-energy protons or ions at close to the speed of light. On 4 July 2012 two of the experiments on the LHC, ATLAS and CMS, announced that they had detected a Higgs-like Boson.
Cern: Higgs boson answer to come by end of 2012 | Emerging Tech Cern researchers will have established whether the Higgs boson exists by the end of 2012, according to Cern's director general Rolf Heuer. Scientists at Cern using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have said they will able to settle the existence of the Higgs boson by the end of 2012. Photo credit: Claudia Marcelloni/Cern The hypothetical Higgs boson is thought to be responsible for giving elementary particles their mass. "We can settle the Shakespeare question of the Higgs boson — to be or not to be — by the end of next year," Heuer told the audience at the event in Grenoble. The Higgs boson has enormous importance in the Standard Model of physics, a collection of theories about how the universe works. Physicists at Cern have established that the particle, if it exists, has a mass of between 115 and around 140 giga electron volts (GeV), according to Heuer. For the Higgs boson, we know everything about it, except if it exists. – Rolf Heuer, Cern
ClimatePrediction.Net gateway I2P : Réseau anonyme LHC - LHC 'Big Questions' LHC Computing Grid Globe (Credit: CERN) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. Based at the European particle physics laboratory CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland, it is the world’s largest laboratory and is dedicated to the pursuit of fundamental science. The LHC allows scientists to reproduce the conditions that existed within a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. This is the moment, around 14 billion years ago, when the Universe is believed to have started with an explosion of energy and matter. During this first moment of time the particles and forces that shaped our Universe came into existence. Scientists recreate these conditions by colliding beams of high-energy protons or ions at close to the speed of light. On 4 July 2012 two of the experiments on the LHC, ATLAS and CMS, announced that they had detected a Higgs-like Boson.
Large Hadron Collider results excite scientists 23 July 2011Last updated at 10:39 ET By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News Website, Grenoble The Atlas experiment is one of two multi-purpose experiments at the LHC The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has picked up tantalising fluctuations which might - or might not - be hints of the sought-after Higgs boson particle. But scientists stress caution over these "excess events", because similar wrinkles have been detected before only to disappear after further analysis. Either way, if the sub-atomic particle exists it is running out of places to hide, says the head of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), which runs the LHC. He told BBC News the collider had now ruled out more of the "mass range" where the Higgs might be. The new results are based on analyses of data, gathered as the vast machine smashes beams of protons together at close to light speeds. Primary goals Continue reading the main story What is an inverse femtobarn? Fluctuations Continue reading the main story
PLUME | Promouvoir les Logiciels Utiles, Maitrisés et Economiques e-Science - Kids inspired by Grid Computing Wednesday 28 November 2007 Kids inspired by Grid Computing The complexities of Grid computing may seem like a barrier to explaining it to 10 and 11 year olds. The National Grid Service was one of the sponsors of the event, along with GridPP, EGEE, the Science and Technology Facilities Council and ISSeG. Multiple activities and sessions were organised for the children, who took part in it all with enthusiasm and interest. But the best bit of the day for a lot of people was the grid games (www.tryscience.org/grid). Philippa Strange, the event’s organiser said "I was inspired to hold our own event here after reading about the Grids for Kids day at CERN. © 2014 Science and Technology Facilities Council - All Rights Reserved.
5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed Cracked.com's new book is now on sale. What follows is one of 22 classic articles that appear in the book, along with 18 new articles that you can't read anywhere else. Psychologists know you have to be careful when you go poking around the human mind because you're never sure what you'll find there. A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects. Oh, we're not talking about the occasional psychopath who turns up. No, we're talking about you. The Asch Conformity Experiment (1953) The Setup: Solomon Asch wanted to run a series of studies that would document the power of conformity, for the purpose of depressing everyone who would ever read the results. Subjects were told that they would be taking part in a vision test, along with a handful of people. The Result: Questions the subjects were asked were like the puzzle shown here: All they had to do was say which line on the right matched the one on the left. "Wait, you're right! C.