Weren’t we taught that plastic can’t conduct electricity? hmm… 

Nobel Focus: Electricity through Plastic

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LHC helium leak will shut collider down for two months

The fridge was not working. Apparently this was not the first time.

Particle Collider Not Quite Ready to Collide

A week after subatomic particles began zooming around its underground racetrack amid cheers and Champagne, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, at CERN outside Geneva, is still struggling to take its next big step. Read here 

In a nutshell, they wanna find out how a particle gets mass. The days when the standard model for particles might be smashed up. Big Bang style…what is it about? here!

 

Giant particle collider set to start

The story

Scientists hope to fire the first beam of protons around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel on Wednesday in science’s next great step to understand the makeup of the universe.

The Large Hadron Collider — built since 2003 at a cost of $3.8 billion — will provide scientists with much greater power than ever before to smash the components of atoms in a bid to see how they are made.

The startup has been eagerly awaited by 9,000 physicists around the world who will conduct experiments here, though some skeptics have criticized the experiment, saying they fear the collisions of protons could eventually imperil Earth

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If you know Ohm’s Law, try to light up this bulb

It’s all about the flow over time, the potential of energy to convert into other forms, and how to control flow

http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=BatteryResistor_Circuit

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