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Tough grilling by scientists panel. |
Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Teenage neutrinos and the art of deceit
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Lying is second nature for teenage neutrinos |
On a side note and totally unrelated, when I was in kindergarten I used to draw human beings without a body - just the limbs attached to the head. I felt that there was something strange but couldn't point exactly to what was wrong.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Inside the Large Hadron Collider
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This undated photograph shows distressed hadrons just before the collision |
The principle of the collider is to accelerate two beams of particles (hadrons) with powerful magnetic fields to close to the speed of light (without attracting the cops attention, that's why it's done clandestinely 175 m underground), before colliding them.
These experiment will help to elucidate questions that the Standard Model is failing to explain. These questions are for example: what is the origin of mass ? Does the elusive Higgs Boson - supposed to 'provide' mass to other particles - exist ? or what is the nature of dark matter and dark energy which make 96% of the universe ?
Some obscurantists claim that there's a risk that the LHC might generate a black hole when it will run at full power. If it indeed happens, no one will be there to say: "these damn obscurantists were right this time".
For more info, please check the Large Hadron Collider website
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All these years searching and it was hiding behind ! |
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Black Holes: theory and practical advice
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A picosecond after finalising a black hole theory |
Now after the theory, some practical advice.
What to do when threatened by a black hole ?
- stay calm
- don't engage in any conversation and keep your distances. They are pervert cosmic thugs
- don't accept candies
- throw some photons to buy some time
- don't look at the black hole directly, first because they are susceptible and second because you won't see anything
- a proven technique to confuse black holes is to ask them the question "What time is it ?". This will throw them in a state of deep Heisenbergian uncertainty and will leave you a certain time to escape.
Happy intergalactic journey !
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