Tag: LARGEHADRONCOLLIDER

As it's widely argued that the Internet has depersonalized and globalized human communication, it's easy to forget that the Web was invented by a person, and in a place. With that thought in mind, Web entrepreneur and Yelp co-founder David Galbraith decided to find out, once and for all, where and by whom the Internet was brought to life. Over the course of an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, who ...

You've totally heard about this thing called the Large Hadron Collider because 1) it is easily confused by children and poor typists to be a euphemism for an erection, 2) it cost $8 billion to build and yet was easily shut down when a bird dropped a baguette on it, 3) it makes some people fear that it'll open up a black hole or bizarro universe where Justin Bieber is NOT trending on Twitter, and ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... CERN will be forced to shut down the Large Hadron Collider at some point in 2011 for maintenance reasons, but the issues aren't currently stopping scientists from conducting innovative collision studies. The CERN researchers have successfully performed 7-trillion electron volt (TeV) proton collisions, which they hope will lead to the ...

Highlights form this morning's other big tech headlines.... Forbes has released its Croesus rankings of the world's wealthiest billionaires, and the list includes an impressive team of nerd all-stars, including Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt and Steve Ballmer. He may not own the overall top billionaire spot anymore (that honor going to Carlos Slim), but Bill Gates still leads the tech rankings ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... It looks like we might actually be spared from that stupid 3G map battle currently being waged between AT&T and Verizon. Apparently the two companies have realized that we're not all complete morons, so they've both dropped several ongoing law suits related to who can claim the "most reliable" network. [From: Engadget] ...

Every now and then, something will randomly fall out of the sky into an extremely insular environment, and chaos and confusion will erupt. Those consequences, as Chicken Little will tell you, can be devastating. Something along those lines recently happened at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) when a bird dropped a baguette on the giant particle accelerator as it was flying overhead, nearly ...

Fermilab, perhaps the premier research facility in the United States, peers into "the fundamental nature of matter and energy" in order to answer the most elemental questions surrounding the composition of the universe. Over the decades, the lab has played an integral role in the birth of the Internet and can even lay claim to the second Web site in the U.S. While the lab lost $50 million in ...

The world's scariest technological advancement and Hollywood's most familiar standby will soon meet, according to Crunchgear. In case you'd forgotten, the massive, underground machine the Large Hadron Collider -- engineered to simulate the "Big Bang" -- was first kicked into gear last September. Fortunately for everybody, when the switch was flipped, the world didn't implode. Unfortunately for ...

We thought that we had heard the last from the doom-sayers about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but of course leave it to that bastion of high-quality journalism, Fox News, to find a research paper that slightly contradicts accepted scientific assumptions about the LHC and twist them into prophecies of world-ending catastrophe. A new study from three scientists, Roberto Casadio of the ...