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Large Hadron Collider discovers new element
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 1, 2010
Researchers at CERN have this morning announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are [...]
Neutrinos they are very small
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 11, 2009
I posted about neutrinos recently, but didn’t do them justice (John Updike’s poem excepted). So I’m taking a second stab at it. I usually include (what I consider to be) interesting tit-bits at the end of the relevant chapter in the Student Notes, but at five pages this would be too much. so I’m going [...]
What CERN doesn’t want you to know . . .
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 17, 2008
Click on the picture to see what they’re all so worried about. In case you were wondering: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
Murray Gell-Mann – why I took Physics
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 22, 2008
Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who ‘discovered’ quarks and took the word from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, thought that Physics at high school was “the dullest course I had ever taken”, and he only applied to study physics at university “to please my father”. Taken from; When we were kids: how a child becomes a [...]
My tip for the Leaving Cert Physics paper
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 13, 2008
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN will be the world’s largest particle accelerator when its construction is completed sometime this Summer. It’s a pretty big deal if you are a particle physicist, and even if not you are still likely to be bombarded with the news when it is finally switched on. ‘Tips’ aren’t [...]
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