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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I’ve blogged about how cool the FRIB is going to be, now let Alpinekat break it down:

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Finally, fusion in a jar… I am excited about science. Can you tell? It’s 2:27 am and I’ve spent an hour writing up this article, if that’s any indication. (I did just have my fifth glass of Mountain Dew, however.) I recently blogged about MSU being chosen as the DOE Facility for Rare Isotope Beams [...]

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We often obscure the elegance of the Universe with complex language and philosophies. Too many people see gaps in our knowledge, or amazing things and need to assign human reasons and purposes to their being. That the Universe, in all its grandeur and diversity, can be explained by simple consistent rules without invoking gods or [...]

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Before Christmas, DOE awarded the contract for a “Facility for Rare Isotope Beams” (FRIB) to Michigan State University, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL). This is pretty good news for MSU, meaning a new $550 million facility being built over the next ten years. This project is expected to bring $1 billion in economic activity and [...]

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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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The Perimeter Institute (Ontario) offers up past videos of lectures here. Brian Greene recently spoke (September 3, 2008), but his lecture hasn’t been posted as video yet. [Perimeter Institute Lecture Series]

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