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I dread reading news in the month of April. Difficult in knowing which one is genuine and which one is not. Here is a piece of news which says that scientist got their fundamentals wrong. This resulted in huge explosion at LHC.

“We are dumb-founded that we missed some very simple balance of forces. Not only was it missed in the engineering design but also in the four engineering reviews carried out between 1998 and 2002 before launching the construction of the magnet”

Pier Oddone. Director of Fermilab.

Pictures of LHC

Mean while, Johnny Hart the B.C cartoonist is dead.

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We are like children waiting for Christmas. - JoAnne Hewett

Compact muon Solenoid.

The biggest detector Atlas.

Pictures of LHC (Large Hadron Collider) near Geneva, Switzerland. It will smash protons with seven times energy and hundred times the rate of the top collider to date, the Tevatron at Fermilab Chicago.

LHC will probe the interactions of the particles down to the unprecendented scale of 10^-17 centimeters, which is roughly the size of universe a trillionth of second after the big bang, when the fundamental forces of nature were born.

Credits : Original photographs by Maximillier Brice / CERN. Davide Castelvechi in New Scientist.

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Image Source : http://nobleprize.org
Albert Einstein March 14, 1879 to Eternity.
A belated birthday wishes for Albert Einstein.

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Is it that simple ? Mentos ad featuring Archimedes, Newton and Einstein.

Via : Sandeep

An update : Got to listen to an idea/view which states that people excel in science when they more leisure, that is they have more time to think. Which means one has to dirty rich, no kind of problems what so ever.

But I shun this idea. More leisure dosen’t translate into creativity. Empty mind is devils workshop, isn’t ?

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Ten most beautiful experiments in science. This is pretty old stuff which was published in The New York Times, 2002. More info can be found here.

1. Double-slit electron diffraction
2. Galileo’s experiment on falling objects
3. Millikan’s oil-drop experiment
4. Newtons’s decomposition of sunlight with a prism
5. Young’s light-interference experiment
6. Cavendish’s torsion-bar experiment
7. Eratosthenes’s measurement of earth’s circumference
8. Galileo’s experiments with rolling balls down inclined plane
9. Rutherford’s discovery of the nucleus
10. Foucault’s pendulum.

More information on Physicsweb

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