Many moons ago, I mentioned that I’d be doing a talk about the LHC for local high schools, and offered to post the core of that talk for anyone to access. I’ve finally done so. If you’re interested in a “nutshell” discussion of the LHC aimed at high school physics students, you can find the contents here.
Category Archives: Science
Browncoats, a call to Vote!
Science Round-up
The remains of the the world’s largest snakes have been discovered in a Columbian mine, a Columbian expedition identifies ten new amphibian species, including crunchy spiky frogs, the latest extrasolar planet has a twenty-hour year, Team FREDNET have developed a sort of open-source Lunar Segway….
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Next Stop: Space Elevator
It’s Alive! It’s Alive!
Umm… Well, not quite!
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have created self-replicating RNA enzymes, which doesn’t quite amount to Frankenstein’s Monster or the Final Cylon, but takes us a step in that general direction.
Commercial Spaceport Approved
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has approved the first commercial spaceport, in New Mexico. The New Mexico Space Authority expects Virgin Galactic to begin regular suborbital flights in the near future.
For the Geek Who Has Everything
NASA’s looking for a new home for the Space Shuttles once they’re retired.
Dave and Fiz, can we make a little room in the Bureau budget?
C02 and H20 on 189733b
The Hubble Telescope has detected water and carbon dioxide on a distant gas giant. While this isn’t especially surprising, and the planet seems unlikely to support life…
LHC Rap
There’s a rap video giving the basic rundown of the LHC at CERN available on YouTube, which is amusing and informative. We may have more LHC content shortly; see below for details.
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A Logical Place to Visit?
It appears the star-system where Star Trek locates its most famous extraterrestrial world has a planetary system that could have an inhabitable planet.
UPDATE: This would be a better article, as it identifies a few SF appearances of this star system, including (yes, Doc), Babylon Five.