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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – What & How?

29 April, 11:06, by admin Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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HIGH QUALITY:

What would it do and how could it work?

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most complex scientific instrument ever built and the highest energy particle accelerator in the world. The accelerator is located 100 m underground and runs through both French and Swiss territory. ( 27km circumference)

Year 2008 marks the culmination of 20 years of work by over 8000 scientists thousands of engineers, technicians and support staff from over 80 different countries.
some critics say that this could create a black hole and could be the end of the world..
the first attempt starts on the 10th september 2008..!(just a test run, the main collision with full power will happen in end of october)

for more info follow the link(s):

http://lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam/Welcome.html

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5005914/physicists-firing-atomsmasher/

his video is done by Chris Mann,
CERN- european organization for nuclear research.

Honours:

10.09.08:
#51 – Most Viewed (Today) – Science & Technology – Brazil

11.09.08:
#63 – Most Viewed (Today) – Science & Technology – India

#26 – Most Viewed (Today) – Science & Technology – Brazil

#81 – Top Favorited (Today) – Science & Technology

12.09.08:
#66 – Most Viewed (Today) – Science & Technology – Ireland

#40 – Most Viewed (Today) – Science & Technology – India

#16 – Most Viewed (Today) – Science & Technology – Brazil

#92 – Most Viewed (Today) – Science & Technology – Russia

#93 – Most Viewed (Today) – Science & Technology – Taiwan

#60 – Top Favorited (Today) – Science & Technology

13.09.08
#79 – Most Viewed (This Week) – Science & Technology – Brazil

14.09.09
#84 – Most Viewed (This Week) – Science & Technology – Brazil

15.09.08
#87 – Most Viewed (This Week) – Science & Technology – Brazil

16.09.08
#86 – Most Viewed (This Week) – Science & Technology – Brazil

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European science and technology

15 January, 17:55, by admin Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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European science and technology

Ariane Rocket
Galileo Project
Aribus A380
Eurofighter Typhoon
Columbus laboratory/ATV/Node3
TGV/Transrapid
LHC/CERN

2007 Nobel Prize in Physics:
Albert Fert (EU)
Peter Grünberg (EU)

2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry:
Gerhard Ertl (EU)

2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:
Mario Capecchi (US citizen, born in Europe)
Oliver Smithies (US citizen, born in Europe)
Martin J. Evans (EU)

2007 Nobel Prize in Literature:
Doris Lessing (EU)

2007 Nobel Prize in Economics:
Leonid Hurwicz (USA)
Eric S. Maskin (USA)
Roger B. Myerson (USA)

Europe is gaining ground on the US in the field of innovation thanks mainly to Nordic countries leading the way.

The EU-US innovation gap has been decreasing year-on-year since 2003, according to a 2006 report . The latest version of the EU’s “innovation scoreboard” reveals it was the Danes, Finns, Germans and Swedes who were ahead of the pack, establishing themselves as world leaders in the field. The report also highlighted outstanding performance in life-long learning, with participation levels highest among the Swedish population at 35%, compared to Europe’s overall 11%.

Published by a Maastricht research institute, the scoreboard ranks the economies of 34 countries on the basis of 25 indicators, including education, investment in modern technologies, R&D expenditure and numbers of patents granted. The countries under the microscope are the US, Japan and the EU, as well as Croatia, Turkey, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.

The report identifies four main groups:

Innovation leaders: Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Germany and Japan

Innovation followers: UK, Iceland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, US

Countries catching-up: Slovenia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Portugal, Poland, Latvia, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania

Trailing countries: Estonia, Spain, Italy, Malta, Hungary, Croatia and Slovakia

The “trailing countries” have scored well below the innovation average for the EU as a whole and require substantial investment to catch up. Luxembourg, Norway and Turkey would not fit in any of these categories.

A survey by the EU’s statistical office Eurostat reveals that over 40% of European companies are actively innovating, more frequently in collaboration with customers and suppliers than with universities and public research institutes

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