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la_belle_laideThis is what I wrote last night but could not post because LJ was down.
Tests clear way for "Big Bang" experiment
GENEVA (Reuters) - Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to restage a mini-version underground of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago, the project chief said on Monday.
Lyn Evans of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said weekend trials in the vast underground LHC machine in which the particle-smashing experiment will take place over the coming months and years "went without a hitch."
"We look forward to a resounding success when we make our first attempt to send a beam all the way round the LHC," said Evans, who heads the multinational team of scientists that shaped the project and the machine, the Large Hadron Collider.
The final tests involved pumping a single bunch of energy particles from the project's accelerator into the 27-km (17-mile) beam pipe of the collider and steering them counter- clockwise around it for about 3 kms (2 miles).
Earlier in the month a clockwise trial in the LHC -- which runs deep under French and Swiss territory between the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva -- had been equally successful, CERN said.
The LHC team now plans to send a full particle beam all the way around the collider pipe in one direction on September 10 as a prelude to sending beams in both directions and smashing them together later in the year.
That collision, in which both particle clusters will be traveling at the speed of light, will be monitored on computers at CERN and laboratories around the world by scientists looking for, among other things, a particle that made life possible.
The elusive particle, which has been dubbed the "Higgs boson" after Scottish physicist Peter Higgs who first postulated nearly 50 years ago that it must exist, is thought to be the mysterious factor that holds matter together.
Recreating a "Big Bang," which most scientists believe is the only explanation of an expanding universe, ought to show how stars and planets came together out of the primeval chaos that followed, the CERN team believes.
Efforts to track it down in a predecessor to the LHC at CERN, and in another experiment in the United States, failed. But scientists are confident that the vast leap in technologies represented by the LHC will make the difference.
Higgs, a 79-year-old Edinburgh University professor who as an atheist angrily rejects the idea of calling the boson the "God particle" -- believes it will show up very quickly once the beams are colliding in the LHC.
"If it doesn't," he said during a visit to CERN earlier this year, "I shall be very, very puzzled."
I have a love/hate relationship with this kind of stuff. I'm fascinated; I adore wacky physics in as much as I am able to understand it; I love quantum, I love particles and collisions and big bangs and I love living in a time interesting enough where humans can create these events. I love it overwhelmingly.
Yet another part of me feels that humans perhaps shouldn't be messing with the infinitely small and portentous, and that money could be better spent etc. I feel the same way about the space program. I love it, I would go into space if I could. Yet a small part of me thinks, "But, why? Just because we can?"
Yes, I supposed just because we can.
Oh, everyone who showed up to the party and got pictures was so pleased! I mean like, incredibly pleased! I'll post them (yes, MORE,) once I make them small enough and finish the set. Sifu really liked them and wants to use some in advertising. How about that? Neat, huh? ^_^
Also, I trained my stupid face off. I was actually wiped out by the end of the first class. Good stuff! It felt good after that slice of peach pie on Saturday. :D
I MISS MY GOD(DESS)DAUGHTER! VERY MUCH WITH THE MISSING, OKAY!!! AND SB TOO!
Okay, had to get that out of my system.
And today, I want to upload a few more pics. They are small so I'm not going to cut them.
What I ended up doing that night at the photo party was ripping off the Mah Jongg oracle. The cards / characters of Peach, Peacock, Pine, Chrysanthemum, all represent different things and the people who showed up ended up being perfect. Maybe it was meant to be.
The pine is associated with a man in his prime. He's not as authoratative or aggressive as the tiger, but does not bend as easily as the willow. The pine can weather the severest storms, therefore it represents someone resolute; a man of firmness as well as skill.
The Peach denotes a young and beautiful girl, usually in her teens, feminine, youthful and lovely. She looks ahead to her future. She represents feminine charm and hope for the future.
The Peacock symbolizes the woman in her prime who is content with her life. In Chinese Mah Jongg cards, she is depicted looking into the mirror, the symbolism of which is that she is looking both back to her childhood and forward to her future.
Finally, the Chrysanthemum represents the refined, mature woman. It signifies the grace, charm and kindness that come with life experience.
Those are just a few of the pics that I gave to the people who took part. Ideally I would love to call "DO OVER" and do the whole thing again with more people and more light. Because everyone who didn't get a photo like this was kind of jealous. Well, you should have come to my party, then! :P
Ands then me being dead with photoshopped blood and hair:
LOL!
Neat, huh? Now tonight there is a Kung Fu seminar, whoop whoop! This guy is the last teacher of his style of Kung Fu, and his eldest student doesn't want to teach it, so the style is going to die out if he doesn't pass it on. That's why it's only twenty dollars to sign up. Apparently he was talking to my Sifu online and basically asked if he could have some students, just because he doesn't want the style to die out. What a shame, right? For something so ancient to just be forgotten.
So I'm going to try to make it to that tonight even though it is across the goddamn Island. ^_^
Hope you are all enjoying the fading summer days. The sun's a little different now, right? The angle, the heat, all that stuff. Enjoy it while it lasts. :)
Tests clear way for "Big Bang" experiment
GENEVA (Reuters) - Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to restage a mini-version underground of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago, the project chief said on Monday.
Lyn Evans of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said weekend trials in the vast underground LHC machine in which the particle-smashing experiment will take place over the coming months and years "went without a hitch."
"We look forward to a resounding success when we make our first attempt to send a beam all the way round the LHC," said Evans, who heads the multinational team of scientists that shaped the project and the machine, the Large Hadron Collider.
The final tests involved pumping a single bunch of energy particles from the project's accelerator into the 27-km (17-mile) beam pipe of the collider and steering them counter- clockwise around it for about 3 kms (2 miles).
Earlier in the month a clockwise trial in the LHC -- which runs deep under French and Swiss territory between the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva -- had been equally successful, CERN said.
The LHC team now plans to send a full particle beam all the way around the collider pipe in one direction on September 10 as a prelude to sending beams in both directions and smashing them together later in the year.
That collision, in which both particle clusters will be traveling at the speed of light, will be monitored on computers at CERN and laboratories around the world by scientists looking for, among other things, a particle that made life possible.
The elusive particle, which has been dubbed the "Higgs boson" after Scottish physicist Peter Higgs who first postulated nearly 50 years ago that it must exist, is thought to be the mysterious factor that holds matter together.
Recreating a "Big Bang," which most scientists believe is the only explanation of an expanding universe, ought to show how stars and planets came together out of the primeval chaos that followed, the CERN team believes.
Efforts to track it down in a predecessor to the LHC at CERN, and in another experiment in the United States, failed. But scientists are confident that the vast leap in technologies represented by the LHC will make the difference.
Higgs, a 79-year-old Edinburgh University professor who as an atheist angrily rejects the idea of calling the boson the "God particle" -- believes it will show up very quickly once the beams are colliding in the LHC.
"If it doesn't," he said during a visit to CERN earlier this year, "I shall be very, very puzzled."
I have a love/hate relationship with this kind of stuff. I'm fascinated; I adore wacky physics in as much as I am able to understand it; I love quantum, I love particles and collisions and big bangs and I love living in a time interesting enough where humans can create these events. I love it overwhelmingly.
Yet another part of me feels that humans perhaps shouldn't be messing with the infinitely small and portentous, and that money could be better spent etc. I feel the same way about the space program. I love it, I would go into space if I could. Yet a small part of me thinks, "But, why? Just because we can?"
Yes, I supposed just because we can.
Oh, everyone who showed up to the party and got pictures was so pleased! I mean like, incredibly pleased! I'll post them (yes, MORE,) once I make them small enough and finish the set. Sifu really liked them and wants to use some in advertising. How about that? Neat, huh? ^_^
Also, I trained my stupid face off. I was actually wiped out by the end of the first class. Good stuff! It felt good after that slice of peach pie on Saturday. :D
I MISS MY GOD(DESS)DAUGHTER! VERY MUCH WITH THE MISSING, OKAY!!! AND SB TOO!
Okay, had to get that out of my system.
And today, I want to upload a few more pics. They are small so I'm not going to cut them.
What I ended up doing that night at the photo party was ripping off the Mah Jongg oracle. The cards / characters of Peach, Peacock, Pine, Chrysanthemum, all represent different things and the people who showed up ended up being perfect. Maybe it was meant to be.
The pine is associated with a man in his prime. He's not as authoratative or aggressive as the tiger, but does not bend as easily as the willow. The pine can weather the severest storms, therefore it represents someone resolute; a man of firmness as well as skill.
The Peach denotes a young and beautiful girl, usually in her teens, feminine, youthful and lovely. She looks ahead to her future. She represents feminine charm and hope for the future.
The Peacock symbolizes the woman in her prime who is content with her life. In Chinese Mah Jongg cards, she is depicted looking into the mirror, the symbolism of which is that she is looking both back to her childhood and forward to her future.
Finally, the Chrysanthemum represents the refined, mature woman. It signifies the grace, charm and kindness that come with life experience.
Those are just a few of the pics that I gave to the people who took part. Ideally I would love to call "DO OVER" and do the whole thing again with more people and more light. Because everyone who didn't get a photo like this was kind of jealous. Well, you should have come to my party, then! :P
Ands then me being dead with photoshopped blood and hair:
LOL!
Neat, huh? Now tonight there is a Kung Fu seminar, whoop whoop! This guy is the last teacher of his style of Kung Fu, and his eldest student doesn't want to teach it, so the style is going to die out if he doesn't pass it on. That's why it's only twenty dollars to sign up. Apparently he was talking to my Sifu online and basically asked if he could have some students, just because he doesn't want the style to die out. What a shame, right? For something so ancient to just be forgotten.
So I'm going to try to make it to that tonight even though it is across the goddamn Island. ^_^
Hope you are all enjoying the fading summer days. The sun's a little different now, right? The angle, the heat, all that stuff. Enjoy it while it lasts. :)
