More Stuff About That Crazy Particle Accelerator
About a month ago I mentioned that I had been reading up about the Large Hadron Collider. Well, I just read a great article over at National Geographic that was written… well about a month ago. I guess I just missed it. The article went ahead and blew my mind all over the place. Physics is crazy and hard enough to understand at the theoretical level sometimes – I can’t even imagine understanding it at the mathematical level.
On what we’ll hopefully learn from the LHC (from the article)…
New puzzles seem a sure bet. After all, the universe doesn’t seem to be constructed for our investigative convenience. We’re big, sloppy meat-creatures who haven’t even taken a good census of the species of bacteria that live in our bodies.
Also of interest, a new cluster of stable elements has been found. Pretty cool.
I have a PDF you might find interesting. A bit of a different level of understanding.
http://iopp.fileburst.com/ejs/jinst8_08_s08001.pdf
On that note, keep an eye out for a fellow named Cody Jones. Among other things he’s intent on building a versatile portable particle source.
Oh, and don’t go at theory just yet, unless it’s supersymmetry. Everything else is in danger of being obviated.
Thanks for the tip on that PDF, I’m looking over it right now.