In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
This Is Really Huge...But ?
By Janet Evans
Monday, Sep 8 2008, 06:50 AM
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest and most complicated particle physics experiment ever seen,
will be turned on Wednesday, September 10th. It took almost 20 years and 7,000 scientists from 60 countries
to create this project. (Hadron Collider)
"Before the year is out, the LHC is projected to begin pumping out a tsunami of raw data equivalent to one DVD (five gigabytes) every five seconds. Its annual output of 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) will soon dwarf that of any other scientific experiment in history.The challenge is making that data accessible to a scientist anywhere in the world at the execution of a few commands on her laptop. The solution is a global computer network called the LHC Computing Grid, and with any luck, it may be giving us a glimpse of the Internet of the future. Once the LHC reaches full capacity sometime next year, it will be churning out snapshots of particle collisions by the hundreds every second, captured in four subterranean detectors standing from one and a half to eight stories tall. It is the grid's job to find the extremely rare events—a bit of missing energy here, a pattern of particles there—that could solve lingering mysteries such as the origin of mass or the nature of dark matter."
The Large Hadron Collider will be operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN. It is a circular underground tunnel, in which the partical beams ramp up to 99.99 percent of the speed of the light, are more than 300 feet below the earth. This is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains.
You can read more about the Hadron Collider HERE
and HERE
Hey, Professor....can someone explain this to me in Physics for Dummies terms?
