Super Collide
Blog URL www.supercollide.com
Located Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
Tags Science, Culture, Politics, International Affairs
Super Collide began on the day the LHC was turned. The LHC represents a great triumph of human imagination and cooperation. In that spirit we initiated this humble record, to offer small inspirations for each other and our readers.
Latest Blog Posts
- B-Rex on Nov 17, 2009 in B-Rex 60 Minutes
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- 7.3 Billion-Year Race on Nov 3, 2009 in albert einstein relativity gamma-ray
Two types of gamma-ray photons emitted after a star crash long before the Earth was formed have reached the Fermi Space Telescope. After traveling 7.3 billion light years, the photons met at the detector within nine tenths of a second, affirming (wit...
- Beard-seconds on Nov 1, 2009 in cell scale beard-seconds nanometers
The University of Utah has a cool model scaling from a coffee bean to a carbon atom (h/t Andrew Sullivan). They also have an interactive cell model and some other great stuff. To give an idea of the size of a nanometer, it's roughly the amount a man'...
- The Bambino on Oct 26, 2009 in Babe Ruth
Footage of the giant of American sports, Babe Ruth, is rediscovered.(image credit: Babe Ruth in 1920, Library of Congress) ...
- Craziness and the Collider on Oct 16, 2009 in Higgs boson CERN LHC Einstein
Dennis Overbye relates the much discussed and ridiculed theory that the possible future creation of the Higgs boson may be sabotaging the LHC, as Overbye writes, "like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather". Physicists Holger...
- Building a Brain on Oct 16, 2009 in Henry Markram Blue Brain Project brain
Henry Markram discusses the extraordinary Blue Brain Project - using the mathematics of neurons to understand perception and reverse engineering the brain in 10 years.
- Roger Penrose on Oct 6, 2009 in impossible objects string theory Roger Penrose M.C. Escher quantum mechanics
Discover interviews physicist Roger Penrose on his father, M.C. Escher and his view of the wrongness of modern physics. More on impossible objects here.(image credit: Oliver Chanarin, discovermagazine.com)...
