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<title><![CDATA[Keeping You in the Know: Hadron Collider: 'Big Bang Machine' Smashes World Record]]></title>
<link>http://sayingitanyway.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/keeping-you-in-the-know-hadron-collider-big-bang-machine-smashes-world-record/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>J.D.F</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Very cool!&nbsp; I can&#8217;t wait for the results when they break the 3.5 TeV! To be able to see p]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Very cool!&#160; I can&#8217;t wait for the results when they break the 3.5 TeV! To be able to see possibly what forces occurred at the beginning of time&#8230;&#160; wow. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/30/hadron-collider-big-bang-_n_373542.html">Hadron Collider: &#8216;Big Bang Machine&#8217; Smashes World Record</a> </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mesin untuk Mengeksplorasi Misteri Big Bang telah Selesai Diperbaiki]]></title>
<link>http://ilmuilmubaru.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/mesin-untuk-mengeksplorasi-misteri-big-bang-telah-selesai-diperbaiki/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ilmuilmubaru</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Para ilmuwan menyiapkan penabrak atom terbesar di dunia untuk mengeksplorasi kedalaman materi setela]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong><a href="http://ilmuilmubaru.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/collider1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-61" title="collider" src="http://ilmuilmubaru.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/collider1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="226" /></a>Para ilmuwan menyiapkan penabrak atom terbesar di dunia untuk mengeksplorasi kedalaman materi setelah dengan sukses mengaktifkan kembali mesin seharga $10 milyar setelah lebih dari satu tahun perbaikan.</strong></p>
<p>Ketika mesin ini secara penuh beroperasi, magnet-magnetnya akan mengontrol berkas proton-proton dan mengirimnya pada arah yang berlawanan melalui dua tabung pararel seukuran selang pemadam kebakaran.</p>
<p>Dalam ruang seukuran katedral setinggi 300 kaki (100 meter) di bawah perbatasan Swiss dan Perancis, magnet-magnet akan memaksanya masuk ke dalam detektor yang sangat besar untuk merekam reaksi-reaksinya</p>
<p>Satu tujuannya adalah untuk membongkar misteri Big Bang yang merupakan teori para ilmuwan untuk menjelaskan penciptaan jagad raya milyaran tahun lalu.</p>
<p>Pengaktifan kembali Large Hadron Collider disambut sebagai suatu lompatan ke depan yang signifikan dalam usaha untuk meluncurkan eksperimen-eksperimen baru – mungkin Januari – dalam penciptaan materi dan jagad raya.</p>
<p>Mesin ini mengalami kerusakan berat karena suatu kesalahan elekrikal sederhana pada September tahun lalu.</p>
<p>Para fisikawan nuklir yang bekerja dalam bidang ini dikejutkan oleh betapa cepatnya mereka mendapatkan sinar proton yang mendengung melewati saluran sirkuler sepanjang 27 kilometer di bawah tanah</p>
<p>“Semuanya terjadi pada tengah malam. Mereka bergerak dengan sangat cepat,” kata James Gillies, juru bicara European Organization for Nuclear Research (singkatan Prancis: CERN)</p>
<p>Segala hal berjalan dengan sangat baik malam itu dimana para ilmuwan mencapai operasi tujuh jam lebih awal dari yang diharapkan, katanya. beberapa ilmuwan telah pulang pada Jum’at malam itu dan dipanggil kembali ketika proyek tersebut menunjukkan kemajuan yang mengejutkan, tambah Gillies.</p>
<p>Pujian dari para ilmuwan di seluruh dunia berdatangan dengan cepat.</p>
<p>“Saya ucapkan selamat kepada para ilmuwan dan insinyur yang telah bekerja untuk mendapatkan back up LHC dan dapat dijalankan lagi.</p>
<p>CERN memutuskan menguji semua peralatan pelindung ketika masih ada suatu sinar proton berintensitas sangat rendah bersirkulasi di dalam collider. Tes ini akan memakan waktu 10 hari, kata Gillies.</p>
<p>Dia mengatakan, CERN memutuskan menguji kemampuan collider dengan segera untuk meningkatkan kecepatan berkas-berkas proton ke energi yang lebih tinggi atau untuk memulai dengan tabrakan berenergi rendah yang akan membantu para ilmuwan mengkalibrasi peralatan deteksinya.</p>
<p>Sementara, CERN menggunakan sekitar 2.000 magnet superkonduktor – beberapa darinya panjangnya 15 meter – untuk memperbaiki kontrol terhadap berkas-berkas milyaran proton sehingga mereka akan tetap terikat dengan ketat dan tetap menjaga kebersihan peralatan yang sensitif.</p>
<p>Kemajuan pada jum’at malam itu merupakan suatu langkah penting di jalur penemuan para ilmuwan di Large Hadron Collideryang diharapkan pada tahun 2010.</p>
<p>“Kami masih mempunyai beberapa cara untuk jalan sebelum fisikawan dapat memulai, tetapi dengan tonggak bersejarah ini kami telah berada di jalur yang tepat,”  kata CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.</p>
<p>Dengan keriuhan besar ini, CERN mensirkulasi berkas-berkas pertamanya pada 10 September 2008. Tetapi mesin ini menyimpang sembilan hari ketika suatu sambungan elekrikal yang tersolder dengan buruk mengalami panas berlebihan dan menyebabkan rangkaian kerusakan pada magnet dan bagian lain collider.</p>
<p>Steve Myers, direktur CERN untuk  accelerator, mengatakan bahwa perbaikan menyebabkan collider menjadi jauh lebih dipahami daripada satu tahun lalu.</p>
<p>Diharapkan mesin ini akan segera dijalankan dengan energi yang lebih besar daripada acelerator paling kuat sedunia, Tevatron di Fermilab dekat Chicago. Diperkirakan mesin ini akan menjadi berenergi 7 kali lipat Fermilab pada tahun-tahun mendatang.</p>
<p>Ini akan memungkinkan tabrakan antara proton-proton memberikan pandangan tentang materi gelap dan apa yang memberikan massa ke partikel lain, dan untuk menunjukkan materi apa yang dalam mikrodetik mendingin setelah Big Bang.</p>
<p>Large Hadron Collider beroperasi pada temperatur mendekati 0 absolut, lebih dingin dari luar angkasa, yang memberi peluang bagi magnet superkonduktor untuk menuntun proton dengan cara paling efisien.</p>
<p>Fisikawan telah menggunakan collider yang lebih kecil dan bertemperatur kamar selam bertahun-tahun untuk mempelajari atom. Mereka pernah berpikir bahwa proton dan neutron adalah komponen terkecil dari inti atom, tetapi collider menunjukkan bahwa mereka terbuat dari quark-quark dan gluon-gluon dan bahwa terdapat energi-energi dan partikel-partikel lain. Dan para ilmuwan masih mempunyai pertanyaan-pertanyaan lain tentang antimateri, materi gelap dan supersimetri yang ingin mereka dapatkan jawabannya dengan collider CERN baru tersebut.</p>
<p>Super Collider superkonduktor telah menjadi lebih besar dari Large Hadron Collider, tetapi pada tahun 1993 Kongres USA membatalkannya setelah biayanya melambung dan pertanyaan-pertanyaan muncul tentang nilai ilmiahnya.</p>
<p>Gillies mengatakan Large Hadron Collider seharusnya ditingkatkan secara bertahap sampai 3,5 trilyun elektron volt pada suatu saat nanti, yang akan menjadi 3,5 kali kekuatan Fermilab. Dua laboratorium ini saling bersaing, mengerjakan peralatan dan saling berbagi ilmuwan.</p>
<p>Tetapi masing-masing akan senang  untuk membuat penemuan boson Higgs yang sulit dipahami, partikel atau medan yang secara teoritis memberi massa pada partikel lain. Penemuan ini sangat diharapkan dan pantas untuk menerima hadiah Nobel dalam fisika.</p>
<p>Lebih dari 8.000 fisikawan dari lab lain di seluruh dunia juga telah mempunyai rencana kerja untuk Large Hadron Collider. Organisasi ini dijalankan oleh 20 negara anggota dari Eropa, dengan dukungan dari negara-negara lain termasuk Jepang, India, Rusia dan U.S yang telah memberikan kontribusi yang besar.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Interesting Article about New funding and research focus in many U.S. Government Laboratories]]></title>
<link>http://westtnliving.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/interesting-article-about-new-funding-and-research-focus-in-many-u-s-government-laboratories/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>westtnliving</dc:creator>
<guid>http://westtnliving.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/interesting-article-about-new-funding-and-research-focus-in-many-u-s-government-laboratories/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oak Ridge, TN, circa 1945 Interesting Article in the Wall Street Journal this week.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignnone" title="Oak Ridge, TN" src="http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AS647_GovLab_D_20091124190519.jpg" alt="" width="262" height="174" /> Oak Ridge, TN, circa 1945</p>
<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125910876247663245.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" target="_blank">Interesting Article</a> in the Wall Street Journal this week.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lego, Aids &amp; Quantum Mechanics ]]></title>
<link>http://tallteacher.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/lego-aids-quantum-mechanics/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Reaper</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tallteacher.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/lego-aids-quantum-mechanics/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The large collider is up and running and with it a further step towards understanding the building b]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The large collider is up and running and with it a further step towards understanding the building blocks of the universe, you know, the yellow <a title="Lego Nose" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/393218039_92bb5281e8.jpg" target="_blank">Lego</a> ones that toddlers get stuck up their noses.</p>
<p>Good news is that the world didn’t end.</p>
<p>Bad news is that the world didn’t end.</p>
<p>If it had we’d at least have seen a result that we unlettered public would understand, even get excited about. Earth sucked into an artificially made black hole; crappy headline, but proof that we’re getting what we pay for in scientific funding. Damn you science, where are our <a title="Jetpack" href="http://www.prospermag.com/article/221-65" target="_blank">jetpacks</a>, <a title="Flying Cars" href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineering/article5489287.ece" target="_blank">flying cars</a>, <a title="Robot Love" href="http://gizmodo.com/367698/technosexual-one-mans-tale-of-robot-love" target="_blank">robot love slaves</a>, and shark with frikkin laser beams? Huh? HUH?</p>
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<p>What we do know from the smashing together of sub-atomic particles is that no mini-black holes were created, at least not for a measurable length of time. Sadly this means that the five-dimensional construct of space and time (the <a title="RS Model" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall%E2%80%93Sundrum_model" target="_blank">Randall-Sundrum Model</a>) has suffered another setback. Too many more of these and it might go the way of the <a title="Michael Jackson" href="http://www.behav.org/00gallery/birds/bird_pics_r/Raphus%20cucullatus_dodo_statue.jpg" target="_blank">dodo</a>.</p>
<p>There have been teething problems, or in this case, conception, gestation, and development problems, with just a dash of <a title="Toilet Training" href="http://www.funnypicturefunnyphoto.com/funny-picture-photo-child-toilet-massdistraction.jpg" target="_blank">toilet training </a>thrown in. Of course the setbacks have a malevolent awareness lurking behind them, possibly the <a title="Higgs Boson" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/might-higgs-boson-be-a-time-traveling-neer-do-well-out-to-destr/" target="_blank">Higgs Boson</a> itself according to <a title="Collider" href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/11/large-hadron-collider-starts-up-produces-first-collisions.ars" target="_blank">Matt Ford</a>.</p>
<p>Not that our lack of self-destruction in science is slowing down our ability to annihilate our own species, in 2008 alone over <a title="AIDS deaths 2008" href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/25/content_12533831.htm" target="_blank">2 million died from AIDS</a>. You recall AIDS don&#8217;t you? The horrific plague that haunted those growing up in the eighties, inflaming hate crimes, branding the homosexual community. The incurable and ultimately fatal disease that was largely forgotten by the 90&#8217;s? </p>
<p>In Africa there is the horrific idea that sleeping with <a title="Virgin Cure" href="http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/aids-virgins.htm" target="_blank">a virgin </a>can <a title="Virgin Cure2" href="http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2002/april/virgin.htm" target="_blank">cure AIDS</a>, while in <a title="Xeno AIDS" href="http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-make-foreign-english-teachers.html" target="_blank">xenophobic</a> parts of Asia it&#8217;s believed that only visiting <a title="AIDS English Teachers" href="http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/11/20/200911200046.asp" target="_blank">English teachers have the disease</a>. We’ve got missing nukes AWOL from the former soviet socialist republic, an increase in anti-biotic resistant bacteria, and a return of 70’s fashion. The horsemen are coming, and they’re wearing leg warmers and lime green.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[LHC: Some interesting technical updates]]></title>
<link>http://vkulkarni.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/lhc-some-interesting-techical-updates/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vkulkarni</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vkulkarni.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/lhc-some-interesting-techical-updates/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I am really excited with the commencement of the Large hadron Collider (LHC) again. What is it? Goog]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I am really excited with the commencement of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider">Large hadron Collider</a> (LHC) again. What is it? Google out for that <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . CERN has updated that they are a step closer to the Big-Bang simulation.Physicist there have smashed protons with nearly the speed of light for the first time in the world&#8217;s largest particle accelerator.</p>
<p>The recent successful collision occurred at 900 billion electron Volts (GeV), each beam supplying 450 GeV.  It took 3 days for the Big-Bang kind of effect to simulate in the 27 Km  ring. They are planning to hit the beams with 1.2 teraelectron volts each(Phew!!). This is to occur within next few days before the LHC is shut down for the winter break. It will resume again in Jan 2010.</p>
<p>LHC has the potential of 7 electron Volts per beam, leveraging which, is expected to reveal the mystery of Universe and also the existence of theoretical Higgs boson many times called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson">The God Particle</a> which could help explaining the origin on mass in the Universe. </p>
<p>Now, waiting for the results before their winter break..Hoping for the best&#8230;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sunday, November 22, 2009]]></title>
<link>http://marcladewig.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/sunday-november-22-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marcladewig</dc:creator>
<guid>http://marcladewig.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/sunday-november-22-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Large Hadron Collider &nbsp;The greatest wizard of all fantasy once claimed that when you break ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><b><font size="5" color="red"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider" target="_self"> The Large Hadron Collider </font></a></b></p>
<p><a href="http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh133/marcladewig/?action=view&#38;current=cern_large_hadron_collider.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh133/marcladewig/cern_large_hadron_collider.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a></p>
<p><b>&#160;The greatest wizard of all fantasy<br />
once claimed that when you break a thing in hopes<br />
to understand it you have left the path<br />
of wisdom. We are bold apprentices<br />
of nature, smashing bits to tease a truth<br />
from mysteries exploding out of clouds.</p>
<p>&#160;But if you were a stranger to this world<br />
and never knew the grace of music played<br />
and walked the blackened streets of lonely night<br />
recording every strange new lovely sound,<br />
you’d never guess the grand piano pushed<br />
from high up on a roof by vandals could,<br />
just from the crash below, make music sweet<br />
as Bach rejoicing in a prayer to God.</p>
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<p><a href="http://odysseusepicmythhero.com/authorbio.html" target="_self"><b>Marc Ladewig</b></a><br />
<b>Author of</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Odysseus-Epic-Myth-Marc-Ladewig/dp/0741444143/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1203824833&#38;sr=8-1" target="_self"><b><i>Odysseus-The Epic Myth of the Hero</i></b></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The LHC is back!]]></title>
<link>http://humanistottawaweb.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/the-lhc-is-back/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tmtek</dc:creator>
<guid>http://humanistottawaweb.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/the-lhc-is-back/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The worlds biggest science experiment is back in action after a year of repairs. CERN&#8217;s Large ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Black Hole of Europe]]></title>
<link>http://charlesmichelduke.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/the-black-hole-of-europe/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>charlesmichelduke</dc:creator>
<guid>http://charlesmichelduke.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/the-black-hole-of-europe/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Date: 26th December, 2009) Our top headline today, Switzerland is no more. The Large Hadron Collide]]></description>
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<p>Our top headline today, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8371662.stm">Switzerland is no more</a>.  The Large Hadron Collider has actually worked.  </p>
<p>It produced a black hole and swallowed up the tiny mountain state in Western Europe, cuckoo clocks and all.  At the time all the investment bankers, lawyers and tax dodgers of the western world were holidaying in their chalets in the country formerly known as Switzerland.  They all got sucked up and vanished too.</p>
<p>Spontaneous celebrations are occurring in cities around the world as ordinary people take to the streets in order to mark the passing of the most reviled people on Earth.</p>
<p>The scientists behind the project are being hailed as heroes as they singlehandedly have wiped out centuries of nepotism and injustice in the flick of a switch.  A spokesman for the group of doctors and professors behind the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHC">LHC</a> told this blog:</p>
<p>&#8216;I love it when a plan comes together&#8217;.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[LHC rifillon punen dje dhe bota vazhdon te ekzistoje...]]></title>
<link>http://funkyfish.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/lhc-rifillon-punen-dje-dhe-bota-vazhdon-te-ekzistoje/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Funky Fish Production</dc:creator>
<guid>http://funkyfish.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/lhc-rifillon-punen-dje-dhe-bota-vazhdon-te-ekzistoje/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Shume prej jush e keni degjuar eksperimentin LHC me ane te se cilit shkencetaret po perpiqen te gjej]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Shume prej jush e keni degjuar eksperimentin LHC me ane te se cilit shkencetaret po perpiqen te gjejne pergjigje per pyetjet elementare mbi ekzistencen e universit tone. Me posht disa foto per ju nga ky eksperiment se bashku me<strong> </strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider" target="_blank"><strong>lidhjen e Wikipedias</strong></a><strong> </strong>per ata qe nuk e dine se per cfare behet fjale <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Klikoni mbi foto per te kaluar ne galerine e <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/large_hadron_collider_ready_to.html" target="_blank"><strong>Boston Big Picture</strong></a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/large_hadron_collider_ready_to.html"><img class="aligncenter" title="LHC" src="http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/lhc_11_20/l27_00000002.jpg" alt="" width="594" height="433" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[ConCERNed]]></title>
<link>http://mattg99.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/concerned/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[When&#8217;s the LHC starting up again? I thought it was meant to be all fixed and ready by septembe]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Moon video - 10 minuti nel backstage con Collider]]></title>
<link>http://valechaos.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/new-moon-video-10-minuti-nel-backstage-con-collider/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Grazie a Collider!]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Grazie a <a title="Collider" href="http://www.collider.com/2009/11/06/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-watch-3-movie-clips-and-10-minutes-of-behind-the-scenes-footage-here/" target="_blank">Collider</a>!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Jason Schwartzman talks to Collider about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]></title>
<link>http://storiesaboutstories.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/jason-schwartzman-talks-to-collider-about-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>klucas67</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Hot Fuzz&#8230; Shaun of the Dead&#8230; Spaced&#8230; Ring a bell? Edgar Wright is one of the best ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hot Fuzz&#8230; Shaun of the Dead&#8230; Spaced&#8230; Ring a bell? Edgar Wright is one of the best and freshest directors in Hollywood. Hot Fuzz is personally one of my favorite movies. His newest project is promising to top them all.</p>
<p><strong>Scott Pilgrim vs. The World</strong> stars Michael Cera, is about a boy who falls in love with a girl (he&#8217;s never done that before in a movie), and must defeat her seven boyfriends. Including Jason Schwartzman, Kieran Culkin, Brandon Routh, and many other enticing actors, the buzz on this movie could not be better.</p>
<p>PLUS!!!! Edgar Wright is good friends with Jason Reitman (aka: director of Juno). Edgar shared the first 30 minutes of Scott Pilgrim with Jason, and Jason flew through the roof.</p>
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<p>&#8220;In London, @edgarwright showed me 30min of Scott Pilgrim. While sworn to secrecy (so much, surprised blood wasn&#8217;t demanded) I will say this: It is a game changer for Edgar and the genre. It moves the speed of light and carries more unadulterated joy than Ive seen in recent cinema. I&#8217;m in awe of the sheer control in the filmmaking. It feels like a &#8220;Matrix&#8221; for love and how willing we are to fight for it. If I had a movie coming out next year, I wouldn&#8217;t want to be anywhere near it. Hats off my friend. Can&#8217;t get it out of my head.</p>
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<p>If Jason Reitman is ecstatic, I am at least excited! So, for my 2010 check list, this film is on the top.</p>
<p>Jason Schwartzman gave an <a href="http://www.collider.com/2009/11/06/exclusive-interview-jason-schwartzman-talks-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-confirms-split-screens-and-animation/">amazing interview</a> about this film with Collider.com</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Time-Travelling Bird Tries to Sabotage LHC]]></title>
<link>http://reactorfire.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/time-travelling-bird-tries-to-sabotage-lhc/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A bird has dropped a piece of baguette into outdoor machinery associated with the LHC, causing a tec]]></description>
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<p>A bird has dropped a piece of baguette into outdoor machinery associated with the LHC, causing a technical fault. Was this the work of <a href="http://reactorfire.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/the-time-travelling-higgs-boson/" target="_self">time-travelling bosons</a>? If so, they&#8217;ve proved creative, if not competent: the incident did nothing to delay the run-up of the collider.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/05/lhc_bread_bomb_dump_incident/" target="_self">Large Hadron Collider Scuttled by Birdy Baguette Bomber</a> [The Register]</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Origenes Del Universo Científico]]></title>
<link>http://hadroncolliderhl.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/large-hadron-collider-broken-for-two-months/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[En busca de los orígenes del Universo Los científicos también confían en que los descubrimientos del]]></description>
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<p>Los científicos también confían en que los descubrimientos del LHC arrojen luz sobre el origen del Universo, los primeros instantes tras el Big Bang, una línea de investigación que conoce bien George Smoot, otro de los ponentes de la reunión de esta semana.<!--more--></p>
<p>“He pasado la mayor parte de mi vida buscando la imagen de la etapa inicial del Universo”, explicó Smoot, profesor de la Universidad de Berkeley y Premio Nóbel de Física 2006, que participó en el proyecto del satélite COBE de la NASA, con el que se logró medir la radiación de fondo de microondas del Universo y apoyar de forma decisiva la teoría del Big Bang.</p>
<p>Ahora Smoot confía en los nuevos datos que pueda aportar, “sobre el 2010”, el satélite Planck de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA). Este instrumento, considerado la herramienta más sofisticada jamás construida para estudiar los comienzos del Universo, analizará con una precisión sin precedentes la luz fósil originada tras la explosión del Big Bang.</p>
<p>“Entre el Universo y el CERN estamos en plena era de los descubrimientos, como hace 500 años lo estaban España y Portugal”, concluyó el Premio Nobel, quien coincidió con los otros ponentes en animar a las nuevas generaciones a descubrir y participar en los nuevos avances de la Física.</p>
<p>Sergio Bertolucci (en el medio), con George Smoot y Rafael Pardo (izda) e Ignacio Cirac (dcha.), explica los siguientes pasos del arranque del LHC el próximo noviembre. Foto: SINC.</p>
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<link>http://hadroncolliderhl.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/%c2%bfque-es-el-colisionador-de-hadrones/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[El Gran Colisionador de Hadrones El Gran Colisionador de Hadrones (LHC por sus siglas en inglés) es ]]></description>
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<p>El Gran Colisionador de Hadrones (LHC por sus siglas en inglés) es un acelerador y colisionador de partículas que se está construyendo en el CERN, muy cerca de la ciudad suiza de Ginebra.</p>
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<p>El acelerador trabajará a -271ºC y usará un túnel de 27 Km de circunferencia creado para el Gran Colisionador de Electrones y Positrones (LEP en inglés). Una vez en funcionamiento, los científicos esperan encontrar el bosón de Higgs, una partícula elemental hipotética masiva cuya existencia es predicha por el modelo estándar de la física de partículas pero que no ha sido observada hasta la fecha.</p>
<p>La construcción del LHC ha comportado un desembolso descomunal por parte de los países participantes en su desarrollo. El presupuesto inicial, elaborado en 1995, estimó que el coste total ascendería a 1.700 millones de euros, pero en posteriores revisiones se ha tenido que incrementar la partida en casi 500 millones de euros adicionales. De hecho, se estima que el coste total de este proyecto se situará entre los 3.500 y los 6.500 millones de euros.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Time-Travelling Higgs Boson]]></title>
<link>http://reactorfire.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/the-time-travelling-higgs-boson/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>AGP</dc:creator>
<guid>http://reactorfire.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/the-time-travelling-higgs-boson/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I just read one of the most fascinating articles I&#8217;ve ever read. The Large Hadron Collider, de]]></description>
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<p>I just read one of the most fascinating articles I&#8217;ve ever read. The Large Hadron Collider, designed to replicate the conditions within a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang to attempt to find the elusive Higgs Boson has been plagued with bad luck. Two theoretical physicists are postulating that it is because to create a free Higgs Boson would be so anathema to the universe, the Higgs Boson (a quantum particle thought to imbue all matter with mass) is actually travelling back in time and influencing probability to ensure bad luck for the Collider.</p>
<blockquote><p>Dr. Nielsen admits that he and Dr. Ninomiya’s new theory smacks of time travel, a longtime interest, which has become a <a title="Artivle from the archive." href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DEFDA143AF93BA15755C0A9639C8B63">respectable research subject</a> in recent years. While it is a paradox to go back in time and kill your grandfather, physicists agree there is no paradox if you go back in time and save him from being hit by a bus. In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus. Although just why the Higgs would be a catastrophe is not clear. If we knew, presumably, we wouldn’t be trying to make one.</p>
<p>We always assume that the past influences the future. But that is not necessarily true in the physics of Newton or Einstein. According to physicists, all you really need to know, mathematically, to describe what happens to an apple or the 100 billion galaxies of the universe over all time are the laws that describe how things change and a statement of where things start. The latter are the so-called boundary conditions — the apple five feet over your head, or the Big Bang.</p>
<p>The equations work just as well, Dr. Nielsen and others point out, if the boundary conditions specify a condition in the future (the apple on your head) instead of in the past, as long as the fundamental laws of physics are reversible, which most physicists believe they are.</p>
<p>“For those of us who believe in physics,” Einstein once wrote to a friend, “this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To quote Neils Bohr, &#8220;We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=1&#38;pagewanted=all" target="_self">The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate</a> [NYTimes]</p>
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<link>http://storiesaboutstories.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-big-bang-theory-news-wil-wheaton/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>klucas67</dc:creator>
<guid>http://storiesaboutstories.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-big-bang-theory-news-wil-wheaton/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Thats right, Wil Wheaton is on The Big Bang Theory tonight! Yes, the man associated with the number ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Thats right, Wil Wheaton is on The Big Bang Theory tonight! Yes, the man associated with the number one geek related television show, (Star Trek- Next Generation) is on this generations number one geek show. But, the man has acting chops. I mean, Stand By Me anyone?</p>
<p>Here is an interview from collider with Kunal Nayyar discussing it and other wonderful things.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.collider.com/2009/10/18/kunal-nayyar-talks-the-big-bang-theory-at-the-2009-scream-awards/">http://www.collider.com/2009/10/18/kunal-nayyar-talks-the-big-bang-theory-at-the-2009-scream-awards/</a></p>
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<link>http://cloudywithsunshine.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/it-wasnt-us-it-was-the-higgs-boson/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists warn that science is sabotaging itself! Last year the most expensive and, some would argu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Scientists warn that science is sabotaging itself!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Last year the most expensive and, some would argue, the most dangerous physics experiment ever conducted by scientists came to un-scheduled halt. The Large Hadron Collider wheezed out-of-action after an internal explosion.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Now in December, if all goes well the Large Hadron Collider will re-start smashing protons together in an underground speedway outside of Geneva.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The aim of the experiment is to discover the elements, particles and forces that were present at the point of the Big Bang which led to the formation of the universe.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The experiment will also attempt to shed more light on the attributes, indeed the very existence, of the fabled and still theoretical Higgs boson.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">What is the Higgs boson? According to the Standard Model that rules almost all physics, the Higgs is a quantum particle that provides all other elementary particles with mass.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">At that time, some scientists were concerned that the very actions of the LHC would actually succeed in creating a micro-black hole that would eventually annihilate the Earth itself. However things at the LHC never went to plan.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Two prominent scientists have advanced the theory that the Higgs boson is, itself, behind the catalogue of mishaps, mistakes and problems that have beset experiments of this type.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Danish string theory pioneer Holger Bech Nielsen and the Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya say that the Higgs boson is able to manipulate us from the future to safeguard us from the catastrophe that is sure to happen were the LHC to succeed.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Apparently, among the many singular properties of the Higgs that the LHC is meant to predict could be the ability to turn back time to prevent it&#8217;s own discovery.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">And this is NOT the first time the Higgs boson has meddled in human affairs. The Higgs has somehow influenced the US Congress into stopping funding for the SuperConducting Super Collider back in 1993, an event that shocked the scientific community as to be so unlikely that they characterised it as an &#8216;anti-miracle&#8217;.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=3&#38;pagewanted=all">New York Times</a> no less put it thus:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>&#8220;the hypothesized Higgs boson&#8230; might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveller who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dr Nielsen continues <em>&#8220;It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,”</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The two scientists have proposed a test which may prove that the Higgs is extending it’s influence to us from the future. They advance that 100 million cards with a ‘yes’ or ‘hearts’ be made and then a few with ‘no’ or ‘clubs’ be inserted and then the pack be thoroughly mixed.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Pick a card. If the ‘no/clubs’ card comes up, then the Higgs is indicating that the LHC and other collider experiments should be stopped.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Seems fair enough to me.</p>
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<link>http://hinfos.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/joguinho-viciante-collide/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mais um joguinho em Flash daqueles que te deixam viciado. Dessa vez o que eu troxe é o Collider. A i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Mais um joguinho em Flash daqueles que te deixam viciado. Dessa vez o que eu troxe é o <strong>Collider</strong>. A ideia do jogo é juntar a bolinha do &#8220;+&#8221; com a do &#8220;-&#8221;. O problema é os diferentes tamanhos dessas bolinhas interferem no resultado, ou seja, se a bolinha do mais é maior ao colidir com  a do menos a bolinha só diminui o tamanho. Então elas têm que ser do mesmo tamanho para você ganhar.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Então&#8230;Divirtam-se!!</span></p>
<p><em>Clique na imagem abaixo para ir ao jogo.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.physicsgames.net/game/Collider.html" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" title="Collider" src="http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/2978/collidero.jpg" alt="" width="428" height="374" /></a></p>
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<link>http://thepeoplesmovies.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/surrogatesradha-mitchell-interview/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>thepeoplesmovies</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thepeoplesmovies.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/surrogatesradha-mitchell-interview/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Share After 2 weeks of forgetable movie releases, Friday 25th September it looks like the movies are]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[a too late catch up part one: mayyors: collider: snot rags: future of the left: gary war]]></title>
<link>http://cowsarejustfood.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/a-too-late-catch-up-part-one-mayyors-collider-snot-rags-future-of-the-left-gary-war/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marxsbeard</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cowsarejustfood.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/a-too-late-catch-up-part-one-mayyors-collider-snot-rags-future-of-the-left-gary-war/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[here&#8217;s what you missed during my frequent dissapearances down the rabbit hole&#8230; mayyors: ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">here&#8217;s what you missed during my frequent dissapearances down the rabbit hole&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Mayyors"><em>mayyors</em></a>: <a href="http://cowsarejustfood.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/mayyors-the-crawl.mp3"><strong>deads</strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">obscuro-release ultra stomp somewhere betwixt hospitals, coachwhips and the amrep roster of yore.  ten quid for ten minutes of music?  you fucking betcha.  ace!  y&#8217;ll need to google for a distro though.  and they don&#8217;t do the internets.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://collider.bandcamp.com/"><em>collider</em></a>: <a href="http://cowsarejustfood.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/collider-isolator.mp3"><strong>down in saturines</strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">in haste (and in no way meant in the pejorative) think porcupine tree meets luna.  best of all the shizzle&#8217;s free.  karmically balances the mayyors expense.  and (the) snot rags fidelity below.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/snotrags69420"><em>(the) snot rags</em></a>: <a href="http://cowsarejustfood.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/the-snot-rags-someones-sister.mp3"><strong>put a little boogie in it!</strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">kindof garagey powerpop.  like a mongoloid cheap trick all cranked and recording in a giant wet cardboard box.  distinctly snotty and rumbley and gorgeously cheap sounding.  ticks all my boxes.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.futureoftheleft.com/"><em>future of the left</em></a>: <a href="http://cowsarejustfood.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/future-of-the-left-chin-music.mp3"><strong>travels with myself and another</strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">how the fuck this passed me by i dunno.  everyone knows my biggaymanlove for mcclusky and the first fotl record.  yet here i am three months late to this feast of words and spikerry.  better than the last shellac album.  that&#8217;s how highly i rate this beast.  falco i salute thee.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/garywargarywar"><em>gary war</em></a>: <a href="http://cowsarejustfood.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/gary-war-obscure-preferences.mp3"><strong>new raytheonport</strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">since every middle aged tabloid / broadsheet / gamer / chatshowhost is creaming themselves over the rerererelease of the beatles forty year old music like nobody&#8217;s done shit since, here&#8217;s a reminder why being mired in pointless nostalgia blinds to you what&#8217;s right in front of yr myopic eyeballs.  psycheparty!<!--more--></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Schedule Changes: 'The Green Hornet' Pushed Back To Dec. 2010]]></title>
<link>http://gointothemovies.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/schedule-changes-the-green-hornet-pushed-back-to-dec-2010/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Jackson Bishop at Collider noticed something funny at Box Office Mojo. The release date for &#8220;T]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Jackson Bishop at <a href="http://www.collider.com/2009/08/29/the-black-beauty-gets-a-flat-tire-green-hornet-pushed-back-5-months/">Collider</a> noticed something funny at <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule/?view=changes&#38;p=.htm">Box Office Mojo</a>. The release date for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0990407/">&#8220;The Green Hornet&#8221;</a> had suddenly been pushed back (yet again) to Dec. 17, but with little in the way of explanation. So, Drew McWeeny at <a href="http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/green-hornet-parks-the-black-beauty-on-a-new-release-date">Hitfix</a> decided to ask star Seth Rogen upfront about the jump, and we get a little confirmation and explanation from him in the process after the jump:</p>
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<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re both relieved and psyched about the change.  It gives more time for post, which would have been immensely rushed if we were to come out in the summer.  It also affords us more time to promote the film, (now we can go to Comic-Con with more than a car!) and ultimately is a great vote of confidence from the studio.  We got the same date that movies like &#8216;I Am Legend&#8217; and &#8216;Avatar&#8217; are getting, so we&#8217;re thrilled to be there.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Sounds good to me. As Jackson points out, the move from the previous July 7 date frees itself from landing in the middle of Cameron Diaz&#8217;s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013743/">&#8220;Witchita&#8221;</a> (July 2) and Nick Cage&#8217;s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963966/">&#8220;The Sorcerer&#8217;s Apprentice&#8221;</a> (July16), who both signed on to star in &#8220;Hornet&#8221; recently.</p>
<p>As I mentioned, this isn&#8217;t the first bump in the road for The Black Beauty and co.</p>
<p>Via <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0990407/trivia">IMDB</a>:  Mirimax had tasked <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003620/">Kevin Smith</a> to write and direct the film, but he pulled out due to the fact that the budget was much larger than he was used to. Eventually, Columbia Pictures purchased the rights and had Seth Rogen set to write and star. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0159507/">Stephen Chow</a> was chosen to direct and star as Kato, The Green Hornet&#8217;s martial arts sidekick and driver, but he dropped out of directing and later starring. Finally, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327273/">Michael Gondry</a> was brought aboard to direct and he has been piecing the film back together ever since.</p>
<p>Gondry certainly brings alot to the table, having written and directed the excellent and critically acclaimed <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/">&#8220;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&#8221;</a> (<a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eternal_sunshine_of_the_spotless_mind/">93%</a>) while also pulling double duty on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354899/">&#8220;The Science of Sleep&#8221;</a> (<a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_science_of_sleep/">69%</a>) and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934/">&#8220;Be Kind Rewind&#8221;</a> (<a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/be_kind_rewind/">65%</a>). However, none of these films are quite like a big-budget action film, so it should be interesting to see what Gondry does with &#8220;Hornet&#8221;.</p>
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<link>http://hadroncolliderhl.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/gran-colisionador-de-hadrones-lhc/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[El Gran Colisionador de Hadrones (en inglés Large Hadron Collider o LHC, siglas por las que es gener]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>El <strong>Gran Colisionador de Hadrones</strong> (en inglés <strong>Large Hadron Collider</strong> o <strong>LHC</strong>, siglas por las que es generalmente conocido) es un acelerador de partículas (o <em>acelerador y colisionador de partículas</em>) ubicado en la actualmente denominada Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear (la sigla es la del nombre en francés de tal institución: <em>Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire</em>, <em><strong>CERN</strong></em>), cerca de Ginebra, en la frontera franco-suiza.<!--more--></p>
<p>El LHC se diseñó para colisionar haces de hadrones, más exactamente de protones de 7 Tev de energía, siendo su propósito principal examinar la validez y límites del Modelo Estándar, el cual es actualmente el marco teórico de la física de partículas, del que se conoce su ruptura a niveles de energía altos.<br />
Los protones acelerados a velocidades del 99% de c y chocando entre sí en direcciones diametralmente opuestas producirían altísimas energías (aunque a escalas subatómicas) que permitirían simular algunos eventos ocurridos durante o inmediatamente después del big bang.</p>
<p>El LHC se convertirá en el acelerador de partículas más grande y energético del mundo. Más de 2000 físicos de 34 países y cientos de universidades y laboratorios han participado en su construcción.</p>
<p>Hoy en día el colisionador se encuentra enfriándose hasta que alcance su temperatura de funcionamiento, que es de 1,9 K (menos de 2 grados sobre el cero absoluto o −271,25 °C). Los primeros haces de partículas fueron inyectados el 1 de agosto de 2008, el primer intento para hacer circular los haces por toda la trayectoria del colisionador se produjo el 10 de septiembre de 2008 mientras que las primeras colisiones a alta energía tendrán lugar después de que el LHC se inaugure de forma oficial el 21 de octubre de 2008.</p>
<p>Teóricamente se espera que, una vez en funcionamiento, se produzca la partícula másica conocida como el bosón de Higgs (a veces llamada “<em>la partícula de Dios</em>” ). La observación de esta partícula confirmaría las predicciones y “enlaces perdidos” del Modelo estándar de la física, pudiéndose explicar cómo adquieren las otras partículas elementales propiedades como su masa.Verificar la existencia del bosón de Higgs sería un paso significativo en la búsqueda de una Teoría de la gran unificación, teoría que pretende unificar tres de las cuatro fuerzas fundamentales conocidas, quedando fuera de ella únicamente la gravedad. Además este bosón podría explicar por qué la gravedad es tan débil comparada con las otras tres fuerzas. Junto al bosón de Higgs también podrían producirse otras nuevas partículas que fueron predichas teóricamente, y para las que se ha planificado su búsqueda,<sup> </sup>como los strangelets, los micro agujeros negros, el monopolo magnético o las partículas supersimétricas.</p>
<p>El nuevo acelerador usa el túnel de 27 km de circunferencia creado para el Gran Colisionador de Electrones y Positrones (LEP)</p>
<h2>Experimentos</h2>
<p>Los protones se acelerarán hasta tener una energía de 7 TeV cada uno (siendo el total de energía de la colisión de 14 TeV). Se están construyendo 5 experimentos para el LHC. Dos de ellos, ATLAS y CMS, son grandes detectores de partículas de propósito general. Los otros tres, LHCb, ALICE y TOTEM, son más pequeños y especializados. El LHC también puede emplearse para hacer colisionar iones pesados tales como plomo (la colisión tendrá una energía de 1150 TeV). Los físicos confían en que el LHC proporcione respuestas a las siguientes cuestiones:</p>
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<li>Qué es la masa (se sabe cómo medirla pero no se sabe qué es realmente)</li>
<li>El origen de la masa de las partículas (en particular, si existe el bosón de Higgs)</li>
<li>El origen de la masa de los bariones</li>
<li>Cuántas son las partículas totales del átomo</li>
<li>Por qué tienen las partículas elementales diferentes masas (es decir, si interactúan las partículas con un <strong>campo de Higgs</strong>)</li>
<li>El 95% de la masa del universo no está hecho de la materia que se conoce y se espera saber qué es la materia oscura</li>
<li>La existencia o no de las partículas supersimétricas</li>
<li>Si hay dimensiones extras, tal como predicen varios modelos inspirados por la Teoría de cuerdas, y, en caso afirmativo, por qué no se han podido percibir</li>
<li>Si hay más violaciones de simetría entre la materia y la antimateria</li>
</ul>
<p>El LHC es un proyecto de tamaño inmenso y una enorme tarea de ingeniería. Mientras esté encendido, la energía total almacenada en los imanes es 10 gigaJoules y en el haz 725 megaJoules. La pérdida de sólo un 10<sup>-7</sup> en el haz es suficiente para iniciar un ‘quench’ (un fenómeno cuántico en el que una parte del superconductor puede perder la superconductividad). En este momento, toda la energía del haz puede disiparse en ese punto, lo que es equivalente a una explosión.</p>
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<h2>Red de computación (Computing Grid)</h2>
<p>La red de computación (o Computing Grid en inglés) del LHC es una red de distribución diseñada por el CERN para manejar la enorme cantidad de datos que serán producidos por el Gran Colisionador de Hadrones (LHC). Incorpora tanto enlaces propios de fibra óptica como partes de Internet de alta velocidad.</p>
<p>El flujo de datos provisto desde los detectores se estima aproximadamente en 300 Gb/s, que es filtrado buscando “eventos interesantes”, resultando un flujo de 300 Mb/s. El centro de cómputo del CERN, considerado “Fila 0″ de la red, ha dedicado una conexión de 10 Gb/s.</p>
<p>Se espera que el proyecto genere 27 Terabytes de datos por día, más 10 TB de “resumen”. Estos datos son enviados fuera del CERN a once instituciones académicas de Europa, Asia y Norteamérica, que constituyen la “fila 1″ de procesamiento. Otras 150 instituciones constituyen la “fila 2″.</p>
<p>Se espera que el LHC produzca entre 10 a 15 Petabytes de datos por año.</p>
<h2>Coste</h2>
<p>La construcción del LHC fue aprobada en 1995 con un presupuesto de 2600 millones de Francos suizos (alrededor de 1700 millones de euros), junto con otros 210 millones de francos (140 millones €) destinados a los experimentos. Sin embargo, este coste fue superado en la revisión de 2001 en 480 millones de francos (300 millones de €) en el acelerador, y 50 millones de francos (30m €) más en el apartado para experimentos.<sup>[9]</sup> Otros 180 millones de francos (120m €) más se han tenido que destinar al incremento de costes de las bobinas magnéticas superconductoras. Y todavía persisten problemas técnicos en la construcción del último tunel bajo tierra donde se emplazará el Solenoide compacto de muones (CMS).<br />
El presupuesto de la institución aprobado para 2008, es de 660.515.000 euros de los que España aportará el 8,3%, un total de 53.929.422 euros.</p>
<h2>Alarmas sobre posibles catástrofes</h2>
<p>Desde que se proyectó el Gran Colisionador Relativista de Iones (RHIC), el estadounidense Walter Wagner y el español Luis Sancho <sup>[10]</sup> denunciaron ante un tribunal de Hawaii al CERN y al Gobierno de Estados Unidos, afirmando que existe la posibilidad de que su funcionamiento desencadene procesos que, según ellos, serían capaces de provocar la destrucción no solo de la Tierra sino incluso del Universo entero. Sin embargo su postura es rechazada por la comunidad científica, ya que carece de cualquier respaldo matemático que la apoye.</p>
<h4>Los procesos catastróficos que denuncian son:</h4>
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<li>La creación de un agujero negro inestable,</li>
<li>La creación de materia exótica supermasiva, tan estable como la materia ordinaria,</li>
<li>La creación de monopolos magnéticos (previstos en la teoría de la relatividad) que pudieran catalizar el decaimiento del protón,</li>
<li>La activación de la transición a un estado de vacío cuántico.</li>
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<p>A este respecto, el CERN ha realizado estudios sobre la posibilidad de que se produzcan acontecimientos desastrosos como microagujeros negros<sup>[11]</sup> inestables, redes, o disfunciones magnéticas.<sup>[12]</sup> La conclusión de estos estudios es que “No se encuentran bases fundadas que conduzcan a estas amenazas”.<sup>[13]</sup> <sup>[14]</sup></p>
<h4>Resumiendo:</h4>
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<li>El planeta Tierra lleva expuesto a fenómenos naturales similares o peores a los que serán producidos en el LHC.</li>
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<li>Los rayos cósmicos que alcanzan continuamente la Tierra han producido ya el equivalente a un millón de LHC.</li>
<li>El Sol, debido a su tamaño, ha recibido 10,000 veces más y también sigue existiendo.</li>
<li>Considerando que todas las estrellas del universo visible reciben un número equivalente, se alcanzan unos 10<sup>31</sup> experimentos como el LHC y aún no se ha observado ningún evento como el postulado por Wagner y Sancho.</li>
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<li>Durante la operación del colisionador de iones pesados relativistas (RHIC) en Brookhaven (EE.UU.) no se ha observado ni un solo strangelet. La producción de strangelets en el LHC es menos probable que el RHIC, y la experiencia en este acelerador ha validado el argumento de que no se pueden producir strangelets.</li>
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