The Large Hadron Collider started smashing protons and taking data.
With the Higgs already discovered, the second run of the LHC is tackling dark matter, supersymmetry, and extra dimensions.
Article:
http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11734
http://press.web.cern.ch/backgrounders/lhc-season-2-new-frontiers-physics
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And what does the eyesore represent? "nuke oxygen"?
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ReplyDeleteHudson Ansley Right, the gif triggers recall of that quote, it crossed my mind too, but that animation is too much of a pain to look at anyway. However, because indeed of the "nuke" it is perfect for the title of "nuke oxygen" given also a vague allusion to the structure of the neutron. The free neutron deserves better treatment though, since it is the most anthropic of particles: think about it, the average life time of a free neutron before it spontaneously decomposes, is a duration most familiar to man: about fifteen minutes. No other subatomic particle duration compares on the scale of human-friendliness to grasp.
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