Writing in the NY Times, Dennis Overbye covers the birthing pangs and the where for CERN's
Large Hadron Collider (which we have discussed large times). "The biggest, most high-priced
physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical ...
(more)KentuckyFC writes "Last year, a group of Iranian physicists made a puzzling discovery. They
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(more)KentuckyFC writes "Just when you thought it was safe to switch on the LHC (though it won't be
for a while yet), another tribulation scenario has emerged that some critics worry could cause
the particle accelerator to explode. The culprit this time is ...
(more)KentuckyFC writes "We've long thought that nuclear decay rates are constant inconsiderate of
ambient temperature (except in a few special cases where beta decay can be influenced by
puissant drawing fields). So that makes it hard to explain two puzzling ...
(more)KentuckyFC writes "One of the cornerstones of modern physics is Claude Shannon's theory of
communication, which he published in 1948. If you've ever made a phone call, watched TV, or
used a computer, you've got Shannon to thank for describing how matter ...
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