As if to say, “Hi, the LHC is up and proton beams are zipping about the accelerator, smashing into one another. And, by the way, I’m using a Macbook Pro.” I have a feeling you won’t find black holes, or Windows 7 at the LHC. Hells yeah! [Read the article.] [Source]

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Brian Cox on the news speaking on the LHC and the role of big science. He addresses the question many people ask, “Why not spend that money on more immediate social problems?” Like Hawking said in my earlier post, we spend less than a tenth of a percent of the world’s GDP on basic scientific [...]

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Stephen Hawking: Both the LHC and the Space program are vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out. Together they cost less than one tenth of a per cent of world GDP. If the human race can not afford this, then it doesn’t deserve the epithet “human”.

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Congratulations CERN on the successful circulation of the first beam at LHC! This is great news, showing that this massive engineering undertaking is on track to break new ground in physics in the coming months and years. It is sad that so many people believe the hype that the LHC will generate dangerous Earth-eating black [...]

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Watch the History Channel special “The Next Big Bang” tomorrow night (Tues., 9/9/8) at 8pm and midnight Eastern Time. Let me say, I take umbrage at the use of the term “Big Bang” all the time by the press, but I guess that is what the public wants to hear. The LHC is not reproducing [...]

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The LHC at CERN is going to tune and circulate the first proton beams this week. This will be a lower energy test run. Something done many times in many other accelerators. What makes the LHC unique, is its ability to energize protons to their peak 7 TeV energy. This week is just a simple [...]

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Physics set to rap music… not bad… thanks Alpinekat!

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Science Illustrated is a lovely magazine. I mean, the vivid pictures are beautiful, as if the content weren’t enough. Granted, this is not Scientific American or Nature, it is a magazine taking a look at the big picture, with a glossy, photo-centric format. They don’t have any online content at this point, just a flashy [...]

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Check out these great photos of the LHC over on Talk Like A Physicist. It has some amazing detectors and they are freakin’ huge, too! Peter McCready also took some 360 view images of LHC. Take a tour! Zip around like you’re an energized proton!

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Geneva, 7 August 2008. CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN’s new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television coverage of the start-up will be made available [...]

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