January’s Vanity Fair contained a gobsmacking article about the Large Hadron Collider. How awesome that this most amazingest feat of human endeavour, is happening in our lifetime? And for kiwis, at the heart of this Republic of Wizards is Alick Macpherson, a particle physicist from Ashburton.
In the last two weeks of 2009, six LHC experiments recorded over a million particle collisions. The LHC has restarted following a short technical stop to prepare for higher energy collisions and the start of the main research programme. Sweet.
‘Physics and art are two forms of the same wish of human intuition, to understand nature’.
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Wow. Just wow. Do I detect a little of Science Guy’s influence here? Or did you enjoy this kind of thing before? Anyway, Wow.
I think I love you for posting this. Sometimes I get a bit fed up of reading (and, to be honest, writing) blog posts that feature typically female domestic pursuits (not that there’s anything wrong in that – she says, trying not to dig herself too big a hole!) so something like this is fabulous. In my own defence, I have done posts about living in the future today and the International Space Station (20 May 2009) but I think I need to do more…
@DJan a little :) he helped explain to me how significant the CERN endeavour is. And we heard Dr Cox, one of the physicists working on the LHC, speak in London before Christmas. In my defence I have always been excited by science, I am just a little weak on the actual theory.
Have a look at ‘proper science’ posts on the tag cloud :)
Yes it’s cool, but if I come home from work some day to find my house replaced by a miniature black hole, I’ll come a-knockin’ on your door.
Am I the only one sitting here looking at your blog going “I have no idea what she’s talking about, but the photos are cool”?! Hmmm…I’m going to call genius boy in to explain it to me. Then the rest of the day I’ll feel smarter than the other people at the grocery store, because they don’t know I had to have a 16 year old explain it to me…Lol.
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Yay science!
I like those photos.
ive just taken the liberty of moving the ashburton wikis “prominent residents” section to lower on the page.
i wonder how long it takes simon barnett to move it back up above climate, economy and schooling.