Four, Count' em Four Tera Electron Volts at CERN in 2012, Baby !

[cbelt3]

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressRele...1.12E.html

Booyah !

Do NOT Cross the streams ?

Actually the whole exercise means DO cross the streams ! (or "Beams" as they are called.)

Cue the "End of the WORLD is coming" nutjobs. Whoooo !!!!

FWIW.... cosmic ray collisions in space produce LOTS more energy that little old LHC, even at 5TEV per beam. Ain't been no universe eating flash yet, so don't worry about it, Alfred.

[Paul F.]

"Actually the whole exercise means DO cross the streams ! (or "Beams" as they are called.)"

Yeah, but they're not doing it all willy-nilly... they've got a plan!

[cbelt3]

My sister has reported there there ARE a few gals working there with flat-tops. Although most are Birkenstock wearing Gradual Students and post docs.

Data volume is measurable in Petabytes per day. Data analysis programs are run on a distributed computing model, most coding done on Macs .. ta daaa !!!... Sis uses a nice little Macbook Pro after she dropped and finally slagged her Unibody Macbook. And backs it up to a TimeCapsule. Her first mac was a PB 180C as an undergrad, so she's been Mac all the way.

Most folks in high energy physics experiments use Macs to talk to the main Unix systems. X11 ROCKS !

[Lew Zealand]

cbelt3 wrote: FWIW.... cosmic ray collisions in space produce LOTS more energy that little old LHC, even at 5TEV per beam. Ain't been no universe eating flash yet, so don't worry about it, Alfred.

Please don't try to educate or inform the public. They don't have the time for that malarkey and need to get back to their TV and horoscopes.

[AllGold]

Time for a repost: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

Originally from this thread: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-554209

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cbelt3 wrote: Four, Count' em Four Tera Electron Volts at CERN

Do you know the estimated peak energy? I thought it was something like 7 TeV.

Data analysis programs are run on a distributed computing model, most coding done on Macs

That's crazy talk. Everyone knows Macs are not real computers and are used only for frivolous purposes.

(Congrats to your sis and the entire effort there--fantastic undertaking!)

[cbelt3]

aa- I believe it's ultimately designed for 10TEV collision energy - 5TEV beam vs. 5TEV beam of Pb ions. Led vs. Led.. no Zeppelins, though.. this is Switzerland and France. Sis's experiment is in France, the other experiment is in Switzerland. They laugh about the ions needing passports to cross the border at juuuust a pinch below lightspeed.

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Amazing! Thanks for the info.

[cbelt3]

More information than you need, but hey..

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

...AND.. It's important to remember WHO invented the whole Web Thing.

Yup. CERN.

" "In August, 1984 I wrote a proposal to the SW Group Leader, Les Robertson, for the establishment of a pilot project to install and evaluate TCP/IP protocols on some key non-Unix machines at CERN ... By 1990 CERN had become the largest Internet site in Europe and this fact... positively \in Europe and elsewhere... A key result of all these happenings was that by 1989 CERN's Internet facility was ready to become the medium within which Tim Berners-Lee would create the World Wide Web with a truly visionary idea..."

Ben Segal. Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN, April 1995 [3]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_...d_Wide_Web

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cbelt3 wrote:
More information than you need, but hey..

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

Thanks.

...AND.. It's important to remember WHO invented the whole Web Thing.

Yup. CERN.

By Tim Berners-Lee using a NeXT Station no less!