The Third Witness: Large Hadron Collider

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Monday, 15 June 2009

Wrap your mind around the LHC

What will the clever people at CERN come up with next? (Another World Wide Web?) Who knows? While we're waiting to find out, let's take a mind-expanding tour of the Large Hadron Collider:

CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.

They didn't teach physics like this when I was at school!

“And when religious sects ran mad,
He held, in spite of all his learning,
That if a man’s belief is bad,
It will not be improv’d by burning.”

– Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“I have never understood … why a solid argument is any less solid because you make the illustrations as entertaining as you can … If you say that two sheep added to two sheep make four sheep, your audience will accept it patiently—like sheep. But if you say it of two monkeys, or two kangaroos, or two sea-green griffins, people will refuse to believe that two and two make four … they cannot believe that anything decorated by an incidental joke can be sensible.”

– G. K. Chesterton

“Beware of telling an improbable truth.”

– Thomas Fuller

The Third Witness

Monday, 15 June 2009

Wrap your mind around the LHC

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