Tag Archives: CERN

Heavy Ions in the Large Hadron Collider – What’s the difference?

Recent headlines about the LHC and the big bang look remarkably similar to the other headlines about the LHC and the big bang. What’s the difference now? At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.6 of Smashing Physics.

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Biological Particle Accelerators

Biological accelerations of 36,000 times the acceleration due to gravity in this month’s CERN Courier. At The Guardian.

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Globe Theatrics

Herbi Dreiner and his students have taken their award-winning particle physics show to Cern, where it went down a storm. Continued at The Guardian.

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A surprise from the LHC already!

The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced a surprise yesterday which may dramatically change our ideas about quarks, gluons and protons. Continued at The Guardian.

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