Collaborate Disseminate
For those of us who like to crawl over complex systems, spending hours or even days getting hardware and software to work in concert, working at places like NASA or …read more Continue reading Daniel Valuch Chats About CERN’s High Caliber Hacking
Energy prices have been in the news more often than not lately, as has war. The two typically go together, as conflicts tend to impact on the supply and trade …read more Continue reading Europe’s Energy Squeeze Pushes Large Hadron Collider To Halt Operations
There were strange doings this week as Dallas-Forth Worth Airport in Texas experienced two consecutive days of GPS outages. The problem first cropped up on the 17th, as the Federal …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 23, 2022
Particle physics is a field of extremes. Scales always have 10really big number associated. Some results from the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment have recently been reported that are …read more Continue reading Something’s Up in Switzerland: Explaining the B Meson News from the Large Hadron Collider
The holy grail of every particle physics experiment is the discovery of a new particle. Finding a new constituent of matter may earn you eternal glory within the history of physics. Unfortunately, since the last missing piece of the Standard Model, the Higgs boson, was discovered in 2012, and with …read more
When it comes to building particle accelerators the credo has always been “bigger, badder, better”. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with its 27 km circumference and €7.5 billion budget is still the largest and most expensive scientific instrument ever built, it’s physics program is slowly coming to an end. …read more
Continue reading Smashing the Atom: A Brief History of Particle Accelerators
Modern physics experiments are often complex, ambitious, and costly. The times where scientific progress could be made by conducting a small tabletop experiment in your lab are mostly over. Especially, in fields like astrophysics or particle physics, you need huge telescopes, expensive satellite missions, or giant colliders run by international …read more
Continue reading Crunching Giant Data from the Large Hadron Collider
In the early 1990s, I was lucky enough to get some time on a 60 MeV linear accelerator as part of an undergraduate lab course. Having had this experience, I can feel for the scientists at CERN who have had to make do with their current 13 TeV accelerator, which only manages energies some 200,000 times larger. So, I read with great interest when they announced the publication of the initial design concept for the Future Circular Collider (FCC), which promises collisions nearly an order of magnitude more energetic. The plan, which has been in the works since 2014, includes …read more
Continue reading The Future Circular Collider: Can it Unlock Mysteries of the Universe?
In the foundations of physics, it has become accepted practice to prefer hypotheses that are aesthetically pleasing. Continue reading Physicists Are Misled by Outdated Notions of ‘Beauty’
A quixotic, and slightly dubious, quest. Continue reading The Large Bitcoin Collider Is Generating Trillions of Keys and Breaking Into Wallets