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Saturday 16th January we went to The Steampunk Expo at The Museum of History of Science Oxford

So today I took the time to find out more for her

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus. It is expected that it will address the most fundamental questions of physics, hopefully allowing progress in understanding the deepest laws of nature. The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (570 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson[1] and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry.[2] It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.[3]

On 10 September 2008, the proton beams were successfully circulated in the main ring of the LHC for the first time.[4] On 19 September 2008, the operations were halted due to a serious fault between two superconducting bending magnets.[5] Repairing the resulting damage and installing additional safety features took over a year.[6][7] On 20 November 2009 the proton beams were successfully circulated again,[8] On 23 November 2009, the first proton–proton collisions were recorded, at the injection energy of 450 GeV per particle.[9] On 18 December 2009 the LHC was shut down after its initial commissioning run, which achieved proton collision energies of 2.36 TeV, with multiple bunches of protons circulating for several hours and data from over one million proton-proton collisions. The LHC will now be down until February 2010. During the intervening interval, improvements in magnet protection, etc, will be carried out with the aim of permitting research at 3.5 TeV per beam during the 2010 operational period. [10]

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Why are we doing this ?
Large Hadron Collider
the tech bit – Large Hadron Collider
What If !!!!

Well after the research I think its a very cool thing if it works, but the queston I think is after they get it to work
and they get the results and assuming it answers the questions they are asking, what then !!

Allowing for higgs field to expand in our understanding, we could start to see forcefields. space travel and more
things that we now thing of as sci fi

OK I have lots more but thought I’d start the ball rolling for comments

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Scientists have calculated the year when the human race will cease to exist. It will be October 31, otherwise known as Halloween. But there is no need to worry yet as the year is 2,252,006 – more than two-and-a-quarter million years from now. The date was announced by a team of European geologists and palaeontologists after millions of fossils from central Spain were analysed. It confirms suspicions that mammal species have an average lifespan of 2.5 million years and modern man has already been around for 250,000 years. The reason for the life cycle is thought to be a blip in the Earth’s orbit which means it does not get as close to the sun as usual, triggering rapid cooling. A report in Nature Journal says the subsequent ice age would destroy all human life

some bug have been sorted in this latest version

The recent meet at Steampunk Meet Russell Cotes Museum went well, we all seemed to enjoy it and it involved lots of tea and wondering about which was great as the Russell Cotes Museum is amazing

Here are some photos

BourneSteamPunk Launches today the 4th Jan 2010, the intention of this blog is simple, to get like minded steampunk people together, chat online about events, form a calendar and hopefully a lot more too