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A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said. But counterparts in the United States said the experiment still did not resolve doubts and the Europeans themselves acknowledged this was not the end of the story. On September 23, the European team issued a massive challenge to fundamental physics by saying they had measured particles called neutrinos which travelled...Read Full Story

In the film Spider-Man 3, escaped convict Flint Marko jumps over a fence marked: Danger Particle Physics Test Facility Keep Out And ends up getting caught in a some kind of beam and becoming the Sandman, a being made out of sand who can change his shape at will. I watched it in the theatre with about a dozen people from CERN (all of them named Maikel ), and one of them exclaimed, ‘Run to building 40 , get a coffee!’ Unfortunately, you won’t turn into the Sandman by sneaking into...Read Full Story

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria has changed its mind and will now not pull out of the international particle physics laboratory CERN over the cost, Chancellor Werner Faymann said in a statement on Monday, overruling his science minister. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has created the biggest machine ever -- a particle collider under the French-Swiss border outside Geneva which aims to recreate the conditions of the "Big Bang," the origin of the universe. "Austria has been a...Read Full Story

You probably saw the headlines earlier this month: Particle Accelerator Could Destroy the World! Apparently some scientists are worried that experiments conducted by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will create one or more black holes that would swallow the earth. That didn't happen during the initial tests, but then a glitch occurred and the whole thing had to be shut down for two months. Why such a long delay? Well, not only is CERN the world's largest particle physics...Read Full Story

The team which found that neutrinos may travel faster than light has carried out an improved version of their experiment - and confirmed the result. If confirmed by other experiments, the find could undermine one of the basic principles of modern physics. Critics of the first report in September had said that the long bunches of neutrinos (tiny particles) used could introduce an error into the test. The new work used much shorter bunches. It has been posted to the Arxiv repository...Read Full Story

zdnetvideo asked: At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Derek Mathieson, project leader for the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, shows off the Atlas detector, a six story high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels. Mathieson explains how the detector uses open-source Java applications to collect data and how grid computing allows the data to be processed. Spread the Word! del.icio.us Digg StumbleUpon HelpRead Full Story

Chulalongkorn University joins hands with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to hold a training program for students on particle physics, encouraging them to learn and understand more about physics. The students attend the seminar on “ Particle Physics ” at the Faculty of Science at Chulalongkorn University , which is held under the CERN School Thailand 2010. It trains and gives knowledge to students and teachers by guest speakers from Thailand and Switzerland . The...Read Full Story

blair1q writes "Using a four-tiered architecture (from CERN's central computer at Tier 0 to individual scientists' desk/lap/palmtops at Tier 3), CERN is distributing LHC data and computations across resources worldwide to achieve aggregate computational power unprecedented in high-energy physics research. As an example, 'researchers can sit at their laptops, write small programs or macros, submit the programs through the AliEn system, find the necessary ALICE data on AliEn servers, then run...Read Full Story

CERN , the world's largest particle physics laboratory, had a starring role in the movie Angels & Demons. In the movie, Tom Hanks plays Harvard academic Robert Langdon, who discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood called the Illuminati, a powerful underground organization. When Langdon finds evidence that the Illuminati have stolen anti-matter from a secret laboratory at CERN, which they plan to use as a devastating weapon to destroy the Vatican, he and a CERN...Read Full Story

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Derek Mathieson, project leader for the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, shows off the Atlas detector, a six story high, 100-megapixel … Related Posts Canon EOS 50D 15.1MP Digital SLR Camera with EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Standard Zoom Lens Olympus Sp-590uz Digital Camera Where Can I Get A Good Digital Camera For Little Money? Sony Cyber-shot Dsc-s980 Digital CameraRead Full Story