physics 101
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- horton
love it when a concept turns my shallow designer brain inside out. this image is making me wish i studied harder in high school.. and look at all them great words.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod…
- Jaline0
Cool. I took Physics all throughout high school, and it was fun, but I didn't get amazing marks. So I didn't want to continue it. But Astronomy is one of the things I was going to study.
- Jaline0
NASA always has cool stuff / images up.
- horton0
yeah i did Physics 11 & 12, really enjoyed the theories and concepts... but all those damn formulas to memorize... too bad its gotta be that way.
- sikma0
funny that image is up on NASA's site. they're now responsible for delaying that project.
- jpea0
there used to be a great bbc video up on google vid's that detailed the whole project. can't find it anymore though...
- horton0
and you know that science guy in the photo is so getting laid tonight.
- MLP0
http://mirrormattermoon.blogspot…
current physics melting my skull
- ornj0
Europe is definitely pulling a head in the field of physics... science in generate... education... life in general. If it can't be solved by some fucked up passage about stoning homosexuals or some other happy bed time story for children in a book rewritten so many times it can hardly be construed as anything but magnificent fiction, bush doesn't want ot hear about it. I hate these born again assholes, their the worst. /rant
Linear collider will never been as powerful as what CERN has running under the ground, I say if you aren't gonna build bigger and better, use the money to help them out.
- ESKEMA0
I used to have tennis class right next to these guys.
no shit. never knew they were gonna build a LHC. shoulda have throwned a ball there to investigate.
- 5timuli0
The LHC was supposed to be switched on last year but it was postponed until May. At least we have a few more months before the Earth implodes and we're all sucked into nothingness.
- Mimio0
LHC
- Corvo0
Mini black-holes... Damn Switzers are going to swallow us all in that thing.
- instrmntl0
looks like the death star
- detritus0
I don't get where the accusation that NASA has somehow undermined the development of the LHC comes from? The US is still paying its fair share to support the project, and it was FERMILAB who supplied the exploding magnet that delayed the LHC firing up. That Congress is cutting back funding for large science projects isn't in question - but it is the next, even larger version of the LHC (the ILC) they're cutting back on. Funding for the ITER fusion experiment has long been questionable as newer technologies undermine the relevancy of a programme that's been on the drawing board, essentially unchanged, for 30 years, but that's hardly relevant here.
We've got similar science funding woes here in the UK - we've just pulled funding for the European X-Ray synchotron project and for the Northern Hemisphere telescope array we've just spend the last 15 years funding, thereby pissing the $140m up the wall.
It would appear that it's hard for the gleaming lights of western civilisation to fund optimistic mega projects when they are breezily engaged in a dystopic, ceaseless military campaign in the middle east. It's such a fucking shame - this level of science, as arcane and impenetrable as it may be, is the one platform that demands that the best of all the peoples come together and help develop. At the LHC there are scientists from countries across the world, including Iran, working together for the mutual benefit of all mankind.
So, we engage in wars where we don't even fund our individual soldiers properly, yet spend untold billions supporting the industrial military complex, and for what? Pissing off even more people and pouring petrol on conflagration we're already burning in.
Woo. Go us.
- sikma0
your right - my accusation that NASA didn't care about this project was missguided
its bush that doesn't care