A Treat For Physics Heads :), Podcasts from CERN |
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A Treat For Physics Heads :), Podcasts from CERN |
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Dec 11 2007, 01:30 PM |
This should appeal to the nerds (like me) amoung us
For those of you who don't know, CERN is the mother of all labratories. The internet was developed there. They're also building quite a large particle accelerator, the LHC (it's got a 27km circumference) which they will be switching on next year. They'll use it to smash protons into each other, at close to the speed of light, to try and figure out what the universe is made from, and how it formed. Anyway, one of the academics working on the project, Dr Brian Cox, invites guests to the LHC, and speaks to other members of the project, and the resulting interviews are posted here: http://www.cernpodcast.com. They're freely downloadable podcasts, and they're rather excellent There's also an associated flickr slideshow with photos of some of the coolest hardware known to humanity here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cernpodcast/s...ith/1612957985/ |
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Dec 11 2007, 02:33 PM |
V nice Tank and thanks for posting the link . As I recall (haven't had time to listen to the pod casts properly yet) CERN have been heavily involved in demonstrating the existence of exotics like W particles?
Another that might interest people are the Reith Christmas lectures from the BBC. Most apt for GMC is the 2006 series. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Dec 11 2007, 03:02 PM |
V nice Tank and thanks for posting the link . As I recall (haven't had time to listen to the pod casts properly yet) CERN have been heavily involved in demonstrating the existence of exotics like W particles? Another that might interest people are the Reith Christmas lectures from the BBC. Most apt for GMC is the 2006 series. Cheers, Tony The LHC experiment has been designed for just that task Tony, if you smash a proton with enough force, in the debris, these exotic particles . The "holy grail" is one called the Higgs boson, which is predicted by theory, but has never been detected before. The problem has been that in order for it to form, the protons need to hit with immense force. If they find Higgs in the debris, the discovery that it actually exists could go on to explain how gravity works, and why we've got mass in the universe. +1 on the Christmas lectures. They've got universal appeal. My eldest now enjoys them with me every year, just like I did when I was his age Heya Matt, I came into science late. It was actually when I was playing music for a living. Someone gave me "Feynman's lectures on physics" as a 3 book set, which I read while travelling to gigs, for about a year. I was a physics dunce at school, but somehow those books seemed like they were written for me, because I understood a lot of it on first read. I've since gone on to study physics and mathematics with the Open University. |
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Dec 11 2007, 03:05 PM |
And if CERN need a black cat to stick in a box we have several here .
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Dec 11 2007, 03:07 PM |
Wow thats super imteresting I really wished id studied physics in school and college though check into this book. very informative, and entertaining Here is is on amazon... http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly...1716&sr=8-1 edit: discount that first review. I am not sure why amazon leaves that on top. talk about the stereotypical nerd! as you see, most people really like the book. that guy thinks he should have written a book that nobody would have read. that is his idea of a great book. the book is not perfect, but geezzzzz, what an intellectual nerd. And having 3 Masters degrees myself, I feel very qualified to trash the intellectual nerds or the world out there. it is a great book. This post has been edited by fkalich: Dec 11 2007, 03:24 PM |
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Dec 11 2007, 04:59 PM |
THis is great stuff, I love science and new inventions. IT is very exiting work.
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Dec 11 2007, 05:35 PM |
A bit of an aside but years ago I worked for ICI in research. One of the bits of kit I used on a daily basis was an ultra high vacuum high energy electron beam gun which we used for new materials research (basically ablatting rare earth metals together). Not on the scale of something like CERN of course but even with that kit we got some interesting stuff. Pretty amazing to point a beam of electrons at a large piece of palladium and watch it vapourise .
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Dec 11 2007, 05:46 PM |
This is so cool, thanks for the post Tank!
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Dec 11 2007, 07:29 PM |
A bit of an aside but years ago I worked for ICI in research. One of the bits of kit I used on a daily basis was an ultra high vacuum high energy electron beam gun which we used for new materials research (basically ablatting rare earth metals together). Not on the scale of something like CERN of course but even with that kit we got some interesting stuff. Pretty amazing to point a beam of electrons at a large piece of palladium and watch it vapourise . Hehehe that must be very fun job -------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
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Dec 11 2007, 07:31 PM |
check into this book. very informative, and entertaining Here is is on amazon... http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly...1716&sr=8-1 edit: discount that first review. I am not sure why amazon leaves that on top. talk about the stereotypical nerd! as you see, most people really like the book. that guy thinks he should have written a book that nobody would have read. that is his idea of a great book. the book is not perfect, but geezzzzz, what an intellectual nerd. And having 3 Masters degrees myself, I feel very qualified to trash the intellectual nerds or the world out there. it is a great book. Wow thanks for the link man , very kind of you to help! -------------------- mysql> SELECT * FROM master_name WHERE ((firstname = 'Paul') AND (lastname = 'Gilbert'));
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Dec 11 2007, 10:52 PM
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Thanks for the podcast link! I'm a physics major so I love this stuff. Keep on rockin'!
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Dec 11 2007, 11:50 PM |
Of course, you'd be doing that for essential research, it's not like you arrive at the lab one morning and say "there's some Palladium, lets vapourise it". - you should have met my boss at the time Tank. He once trashed a new electron beam gun just 'to see how it worked', put it back in the box and returned it with the comment of 'found broken on delivery'. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Dec 12 2007, 12:34 AM |
Cool stuff - they are also looking for evidence of supersymmetry with the LHC, which opens the door to some experimental verifications of aspects of String Theory and other similar Theories.
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Dec 12 2007, 12:49 AM |
Better then me fkalich - I settle with Pareto and so am usually content with 80%
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Dec 12 2007, 02:57 AM |
The String Theory always interested me
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