Integrated Luminosity doubled at CERN
May 17th twitter feed from CERN:
Another good weekend for the LHC saw the integrated luminosity for 2010 double. This is a measure of the total number of collisions.
8:04 AM May 17th
The previous post explains they are up to half a billion collisions.
Adding the tally from last weekend's runs, the LHC experiments have observed around half a billion collisions to date.
7:03 AM May 12th
Here's the link for the CERN twitter feed.
http://twitter.com/cern/
Here's another citation about the possible discovery of the decay of a "Strange beauty particle".
http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/
While everyone is worried about the CERN super-collider causing a black-hole, you have to admit that some pretty cool simulations have been created.
For your entertainment an excellent extreme black hole example, which happens to have CERN at its beginning.
Still not as exciting as siphons.
Another good weekend for the LHC saw the integrated luminosity for 2010 double. This is a measure of the total number of collisions.
8:04 AM May 17th
The previous post explains they are up to half a billion collisions.
Adding the tally from last weekend's runs, the LHC experiments have observed around half a billion collisions to date.
7:03 AM May 12th
Here's the link for the CERN twitter feed.
http://twitter.com/cern/
Here's another citation about the possible discovery of the decay of a "Strange beauty particle".
http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/
While everyone is worried about the CERN super-collider causing a black-hole, you have to admit that some pretty cool simulations have been created.
For your entertainment an excellent extreme black hole example, which happens to have CERN at its beginning.
Still not as exciting as siphons.
Comments
black hole [n] nature's siphon
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/19/10 at 05:02 AM
and it continues to function in a vacuum! that simulation is cool and disturbing. natures siphon! i like it.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/19/10 at 09:49 AM
I can't help wondering, where does it siphon to though? 🙄
Posted by Dumbfounded on 05/19/10 at 10:31 AM
Just where it is siphoned to dumbfounds me too.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/19/10 at 11:16 AM
to the evil universe. you know, the one where kirk and spock have beards. :lol:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/19/10 at 11:23 AM
General observation leads me to conclude that this is the evil universe, it must siphon into the good one. Which means those goody-goody bastards are stealing our stuff!
Let's all grow beards and find a way to destroy them! 😠
Let's all grow beards and find a way to destroy them! 😠
Posted by Dumbfounded on 05/19/10 at 11:50 AM
send them tribbles with instructions to feed the things! or send a map to the borg. :cheese:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/19/10 at 11:54 AM
good thing you're here to keep us informed then mario! 😉
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/20/10 at 10:14 AM
You would think a black hole would annihilate the earth a little quicker and sound less like an ice machine.
All I learned from this video was how many licks it takes.
All I learned from this video was how many licks it takes.
Posted by Pablo on 05/20/10 at 04:45 PM
you'd never hear it over the sound of 6 billion people screaming at the same time!
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/20/10 at 06:46 PM
The amount of collapsing mass needed to create even the smallest sustained black hole is greater than all the mass in our solar system, plus many. The risk to us is not from the creation of a miniature pseudo-black hole, but rather from the potential creation of a theoritical Higgs-Boson particle thru contained fusion, which these scientists are actually looking for. Btw, Patty, if a black hole won't let light out, it certainly won't let air out, so those potential 6 billion screams would make no sound, whatsoever. No air, no sound. Scary stuff.
Posted by done on 05/22/10 at 02:27 AM
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