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The God Particle and the Grid
Wired ^
| April 2004
| Richard Martin
Posted on 04/03/2004 9:56:45 PM PST by LibWhacker
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The physics lab that brought you the Web is reinventing the Internet. Get ready for the atom-smashing, supercomputing, 5-gigabits-per-second Grid Economy.
200 feet underground, a proton does 17-mile laps at nearly the speed of light. Guided by powerful magnets, it zooms through a narrow, circular tunnel that straddles the Switzerland-France border. Then a tiny adjustment in the magnetic field throws the proton into the path of another particle beam traveling just as fast in the opposite direction. Everything goes kerflooey.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: boson; cern; collider; god; grid; hadron; higgs; particle; physics; proton; science; supercomputing
To: PatrickHenry; Physicist
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To: LibWhacker
BUMP
To: RadioAstronomer
We are going to get an addition to Fermi. A straight accelerator is going through DuPage, IL. Imagine the fun trying to find out how that is going to fit in all this congestion! I'll find some more info...
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posted on
04/03/2004 10:14:58 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
To: RadioAstronomer
BTTT.
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posted on
04/03/2004 11:01:35 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberalism is a Hate Crime)
To: PA Engineer
Bump, this is stuff I can use.
To: VadeRetro; jennyp; Junior; longshadow; LogicWings; Doctor Stochastic; js1138; RightWhale; ...
Ping.
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posted on
04/04/2004 4:15:32 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(A compassionate evolutionist!)
To: PatrickHenry
Thanks..I need some coffee/bkft..in that order..its' cold...
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posted on
04/04/2004 4:48:04 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: LibWhacker
The writer mentions the
SETI@home project.
I'm surprised he didn't mention a similar project working on cancer research and smallpox research. That medical work is being done through United Devices. More information is here:
http://www.ud.com/home.htm I've been running the medical research for about a year on three machines, and it works flawlessly.
To: RadioAstronomer
Physicists believe that Higgs particles generate a kind of soupy ether through which other particles move, picking up drag that translates into mass on the macroscopic scale. The Higgs is the cornerstone of 21st-century physics; it simply has to be there, otherwise the standard model of the universe collapses. I haven't kept up with the literature on the Higgs particle, but from what they're saying, if it isn't found, the consequences will be enormous. Ths standard model seems to have painted itself into a corner.
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posted on
04/04/2004 10:55:35 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Today is 04-04-04)
To: LibWhacker
I fly Southwest out of Oakland to LA regularly, and during the daytime you can clearly see the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) from the air.
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04/04/2004 8:56:05 PM PDT
by
kezekiel
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