The Cernier Company or CERN, the worlds largest physics research firm, is currently in the process of building what would be the worlds largest working supercollider. Known as Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, the device is 27 kilometers (16.7 miles) long and resides in a tunnel approximately 100 meters beneath the Franco-Swiss border, just outside of Geneva.
By accelerating protons toward each other at 99.999999% the speed of light the LHC can recreate conditions similar to those that resulted from the Big Bang, ultimately alighting a great deal about the particles and forces that comprise our Universe.
These supercolliders have been around for awhile, but there has never been one on this scale. Scientists say this supercollider will have the ability to ability to create tiny black holes as well. I was quite stunned to hear they were considering creating one of these when this massive machine is completed.
And while Physicists have the logistics of the LHC we ... Read more ...
Acidified seawater showing up along coast ahead of schedule
Climate models predicted it wouldn't happen until the end of the century.
So a team led by Seattle researchers was stunned to discover that vast swaths of acidified seawater already are showing up along the Pacific Coast as greenhouse-gas emissions upset the oceans' chemical balance.
In surveys from Vancouver Island to the tip of Baja California, reported Thursday in the online journal Science Express, the scientists found the first evidence that large amounts of corrosive water are reaching the continental shelf the shallow sea margin where most marine creatures live.
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"What we found ... was truly astonishing," said oceanographer Richard Feely, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle...
All along the coast, the scientis ... Read more ...
news.yahoo.com
CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - China has found what it termed 50 "hazardous sources of radiation" due to last week's earthquake, a senior official said on Friday, although he insisted the situation was under control.
But Wu Xiaoqing, vice environment minister, said there had been no accidental releases of radiation.
"Thirty-five of the radiation sources have been recovered, and the location of another 15 has been confirmed, but they have not yet been recovered," Wu told reporters in Beijing.
"Three are buried in rubble and another 12 are in dangerous buildings, which staff cannot go into," he added. "At present, tests from the scene show that there has yet to be an accidental release of radiation."
The disaster area is home to China's chief nuclear weapons research lab in Mianyang, as well as several secretive atomic sites, but no nuc ... Read more ...
news.bbc.co.uk
Dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap has emerged from research during an expedition by the Canadian military.
Scientists travelling with the troops found major new fractures during an assessment of the state of giant ice shelves in Canada's far north.
The team found a network of cracks that stretched for more than 10 miles (16km) on Ward Hunt, the area's largest shelf.
The fate of the vast ice blocks is seen as a key indicator of climate change.
Satellite image of Ward Hunt Ice Shelf cracks
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Ive kept quiet about the fact that Rob and I have been communicating ever since he was kind enough to mention - cencored - ... in his interview in the Guardian with Jon Ronson, because I didnt want to add to the flak he was taking in the British ragser papers.
While there were certainly some decent and fair articles written about Robs interest in things outside of the mainstream there was lots of noise drowning out the signal.
The noise, IMHO, was there for the age old purpose of selling papers through sensationalistic name trashing. We all know the drill, when anyone mentions Aliens and/or UFOs in any meaningful or serious way the provincial thinkers, the insecure and the mainstream media all go into their eye rolling, giggling, hes gone mad routine.
Out of all the coverage Robbies gone mad generated, I didnt see a single story that asked the question, that in my mind should have been asked first Someth ... Read more ...
