CERN Now Wants To Build An Even Bigger Atom Smasher For R360 Billion [Video]
The proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) would be 91 kilometres long, dwarfing its predecessor, the 27 kilometres Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The World’s First Ever Website, Resurrected
30 April marked the World Wide Web’s 20th anniversary. And to celebrate this milestone in history CERN is reviving the orginial and first website. This URL has been dormant for years.
Scientist Are Dead Certain That They Have Found The God Particle
Well, as certain as scientists can be. Guys in white coats at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider are now certain that they have found the Higgs Boson particle. The “God Particle” is thoerised to give elementary objects mass to the universe. Meaning that the Higgs Boson explains the existence of everything, […]
Stephen Hawking Awarded Prestigious R26 Million Cash Physics Prize
Stephen Hawking and CERN have won this year’s prestigious Fundamental Physics Prize. The award was given to Hawking for his discovery that black holes emit radiation, and his “deep contributions” to quantum gravity and quantum aspects of the early universe. The prize money – a whopping R26m – is considered to be science’s most lucrative award.
Jamming With The Large Hadron Collider
If you think about it, music is simply data ordered in a specific way by a clever human and then executed by either man or machine. So why not take some existing data from a very clever machine and see if it makes music? Well that’s what the very very clever people at CERN have done.