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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 

So we thought that the colors of the fish are only from the reflection of sun rays. *Blush*

Seeing Red

Sept. 16, 2008  Thousands of fish swim on the edge of a coral reef. It was staring them in the face, but somehow generations of marine biologists have failed to notice that a lot of fish in the sea glow a fluorescent red, according to a study published Monday. Full story 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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It’s happening right now. It’s a metonic cycle eclipse, meaning the last time the EXACT eclipse happened on Aug 6th 1990 at 1412hrs UTC time (greatest eclipse). The Metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years. The eclipse belongs to Saros series 138, and is the 29th of 83 lunar eclipses in the series.

It gets reddish due to the dispersion of sunlight

’nuff said.