The Large Hadron Collider has been getting a lot of press lately. I'm sure you've all heard about it. It's pretty exciting stuff. This isn't much to do with politics but I thought I'd share a speech given by Dr. Brian Cox at TED.
Whether or not the scientific theories discussed are agreed upon, it is fascinating stuff. This speech was given in February earlier this year when the project was just being completed. Headlines were made this week when on Wednesday "the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), successfully began operating its Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, launching a new era in particle physics."
Or you can go directly to the TED website to watch it instead: Brian Cox: An inside tour of the world's biggest supercollider
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Large Hadron Collider
Posted by Andy at 12:59 PM
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So freaking cool....
I want to be a scientist when I grow up....
The sad thing is that Europe has greatly surpassed the United States in spending on research and development in virtually all fields - science, technology, education, health care (especially)....anything that requires some R&D, that's where they put their money....the US spends its money on guns and bullets.
A decade ago, the US had the leading particle accelerator in the world, and the program was very promising. Then Bush got elected and the Department of Defense seemed to have taken finanical priority.
The Europeans are ahead of us in space technology too. More and more scientists, educators, and doctors (Boyd being one of them) go to Europe for conferences and resources because the US has fallen behind. Too bad.
I'm sure you could say the same thing about other areas of development in which the U.S. is ahead of Europe. The U.S. can't be ahead of everyone in everything.
Interesting video though. It was neat to see what CERN is up too being that I first heard of them in Dan Brown's book Angels and Demons.
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