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I'm aware. I assume you believe that's a good thing?
Oh, be serious. It's a particle physics lab. They do particle physics, just like all of the other particle physics labs that I've worked at or with
An oversimplification of what? No, I don't think it's an oversimplification to say that CERN is a physics lab and does physics. It's not an oversimplification to say that talk of CERN opening a portal to hell is ludicrous.I see. And you don't think this comment of yours is an oversimplification?
Examples of particle labs I worked at? Brookhaven National Lab, the CESR facility at Cornell, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Labs I worked with: LBL and Livermore (now there is a lab that does do secret things. I also worked with a lot of people from Fermilab (and turned down a job there). Physicists moved back and forth between the labs all the time. (These days it's pretty much just CERN, though, since they're almost the only game in town.)Care to share some examples?
The physics community is global. An important career milestone is to publish stuff. With a few top-secret physicists scattered here and there, such as the Manhattan Project.
Examples of particle labs I worked at? Brookhaven National Lab, the CESR facility at Cornell, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Labs I worked with: LBL and Livermore (now there is a lab that does do secret things. I also worked with a lot of people from Fermilab (and turned down a job there). Physicists moved back and forth between the labs all the time. (These days it's pretty much just CERN, though, since they're almost the only game in town.
An oversimplification of what? No, I don't think it's an oversimplification to say that CERN is a physics lab and does physics. It's not an oversimplification to say that talk of CERN opening a portal to hell is ludicrous.
Examples of particle labs I worked at? Brookhaven National Lab, the CESR facility at Cornell, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Labs I worked with: LBL and Livermore (now there is a lab that does do secret things. I also worked with a lot of people from Fermilab (and turned down a job there). Physicists moved back and forth between the labs all the time. (These days it's pretty much just CERN, though, since they're almost the only game in town.)
We designed and built a detecter to be placed in an accelerator. At CERN, that means building a bunch of apparatus around the point where two beams of accelerated particles collided. The detector is composed of multiple subdetectors with different capabilities, e.g. tracking charged particles as the emerge from the collision and seeing how they bend in a strong magnetic field, detecting photons, measuring the energy of particles. Design might require all kinds of knowledge, including chemistry, high energy physics, material science, fast electronics; detectors often push the boundaries of available technology.Okay buy what exactly did you guys...do?
Mostly by being early users with massive data processing needs, pushing capabilities in processing, data sharing and storage. The experimental collaborations are also large and spread throughout the world, so they were pioneers in online collaboration and data communication. As I said, the Web was invented at CERN as a tool to help physicists collaborate on experiments.Can you help answer my last post about how computer technology is developed at these places?
and new memories come out which take advantage of the current never decaying
Mostly by being early users with massive data processing needs, pushing capabilities in processing, data sharing and storage. The experimental collaborations are also large and spread throughout the world, so they were pioneers in online collaboration and data communication. As I said, the Web was invented at CERN as a tool to help physicists collaborate on experiments.
The superconducting coils used to accelerate the hydrogen ions to near-light-speed forced us to discover the physics of how superconductivity works. It forced us to research refrigeration technology to make superconductivity possible. We then use that to create new superconducting computers. Since electrical resistance is zero, power consumption is theoretically zero, and new memories come out which take advantage of the current never decaying.
I hear they're building another one in China that dwarfs CERN. It's a lot of money and expense, and many people haven't a clue what they're for which is why we get threads like these.
Because they already learned all they could at lower energies, and to get to higher energies requires a bigger machine, at least until someone comes up with a practicable new approach.Then why do they need to keep building these things bigger?
It's going toward building the immense accelerator, and the immense detectors, and all of the research and salaries that go along with it. The data are the results of particle collisions, which can tell you at the most fundamental level how the universe works. It has no foreseeable practical application.What's billions of $ in funding going toward and what data are they recovering?
Nah, physicists already did that and gave humanity the ability to destroy the planet. No point in repeating ourselves.It seems like a global Manhattan project.
This nonsense reminds me of Event Horizon or Babylon 5: Thirdspace. Neither of which were very good.
Actually I liked Event Horizon. Never got into Babylon 5, I was baptized in the fires of TNG and a Trekkie I remain. Well, that's not true either, I haven't bothered with Star Trek Discovery; I am a huge fan of The Orville however which is arguably better Star Trek than Star Trek right now.
It has no foreseeable practical application.
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