So yesterday the LHC was turned on! I for one find the whole thing quite exciting! Dr Karl got me interested what was happening, especially after his mind blowing interview with Dr Kip Thorne and Sir Roger Penrose - Download the Mega Mind Meld here.
There has been much doomsday predictions that the world will end, that we will be sucked into the experimental black holes the LHC may create in its efforts to understand matter, energy and especially mass.
As the Mega Mind Meld got me interested in Black Holes in general, I ended up watching an excellent doco series that someone had ripped off onto YouTube called Black Holes: The ultimate Abyss which was like WOAH...
What the doco told me was that all galaxies, including our own, are built and fundamentally rely on a central blackhole that creates a pull that has reached its capacity, so instead spinning the bodies that surround it.
Very cool. And also says to me that black holes are fundamental to understanding our universe and how matter works. The LHC will help explore energy and matter, and will hopefully be the key to renewable, powerful energy.
So the LHC went online yesterday, and us all at work geeked out like the true nerds we are.
And after this little ramble, still wondering what on earth the Large Hadron Collider is? I'll let Alpine Kat explain:
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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Great posting!!!
Congratulations!!!!!!!!
Hi Sez,
I'm Barry (a friend of Peter the Great and Mandarin Orange since schooldays) and I've been working on the CMS experiment at the LHC for the past 15 years.
It's great that non-scientists (the "normals" !) are taking an interest.
This is only the start though; beams won't be colliding for around 4 weeks and we don't expect significant physics results (which depend on a high machine luminosity) for a year or so.
Watch this space!
All the best,
Barry.
Glad the black hole did not destroy the world.
And, you've been tagged. Please see my blog, dahlin'.
xo
David, thanks for dropping by.
LBR, will check it out!
Bazza! Thank you so much for dropping by! Pete and Stockwell never do :-( I'm also giddy that someone who is actually working on the project deemed my blogpost worthy of a comment. Thank you for the update on time specifics. I know it could be awhile before anything meaningful comes out, but it's a start, and it's uber exciting nonetheless!~
Did you see Prof Brian Cox talking about the LHC on Denton the other night? Can you please get Bazza to tell him I think the Prof is HOT?! x
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