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6 days ago by willwm

Hot damn. (Probably quite literally…) Bugorski, a 36-year-old researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned – as had, apparently, the several safety mechanisms. Leaning over the piece of equipment, Bugorski stuck ...

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6 days ago

Giant particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have become the poster children for big science. Immense in size, cost, and ambition, these gargantuan structures hurl particles at velocities close to the speed of light, in the hopes of uncovering the most basic constituents of matte ...

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13 days ago by tang

Third part of Spiderman thriology! Spiderman is gone bad this time! Enjoy!!! Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 superhero film written and directed by Sam Raimi, with a screenplay by Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent. It is the third film in the Spider-Man film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics characte ...

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17 days ago by heatherkerst

Prof. Singh, Cynthia, and Madeeha before they head underground to the particle accelerator Today we visited CERN and had a fantastic lecture and guided visit given by a physicist who had helped build one of the particle accelerators. Although CERN has stopped public visits to underground areas, WE g ...

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19 days ago by Cody

Dude... Proton. Pack. That should be enough to get most of you out to the retailers to get a copy of the new Ghostbusters game - before you grab your keys, take a little look at what's going on inside the game. Should you wait for a price drop, or start trapping ghouls tonight? Related posts: 25 Rea ...

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20 days ago by Pukka Fetish

Ah, the 1950s. Eisenhower was in charge, “The Honeymooners” ruled TV, Outfit boss Sam Giancana kept things orderly in Chicago and J. Edgar Hoover fondled his secret files while plotting his assault on left-leaning pinkos who wanted to fluoridate our drinking water. And Senator Estes Kefauver spearhe ...

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21 days ago by dogsounds

It’s geek-out time here again at dogsounds towers, and here are two little treats for your inner geek. Remember, the laws of physics cause geeks and nerds to repel, so nerds need not apply. Jump right in after the…uh…jump. Firstly, a charming and mesmerising interactive journey from the world of the ...

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26 days ago by DrKuha

So a team of scientists first created element 112 back in 1996, but it was only recently that they have been given credit for the discovery. There are a lot of interesting things to look at here. First of all, it was created by smashing zinc atoms into a target made of lead. I’ve always been fascina ...

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29 days ago by Flash

I don't need anti-aliasing! It's built into my eyes! My life is anti-aliased! SWEETZ Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1FVdUTSlF4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOAxurw-lQ&feature=related Horrid memories of the Particle Accelerator come to mind when the first one plays. Man that ...

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31 days ago by mattusmaximus

As a quick follow up to a recent post – LHC Lunacy & Doomsday Scenarios – I wanted to share with you an online discussion I had with a physics woo on this topic. The conversation with James Blodgett, who seems to have a history of opposing the Large Hadron Collider on pseudoscientific grounds, is re ...

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