Hi,
Almost or more serious than GLOBAL WARMING is the Acidification of the oceans! It affects the sea Biomass-the fish, the Plankton, the food supply-which in turn affects up to a billion people in the world. This is a forgotten catastrophe! We forget what a connected world we live in and I believe we are at a threshold where if nothing is done soon, we will start dying as a world. Maybe the scientists are the ones taking notice and why space exploration is such an important practice! They know we are limited in space and resources, and that one way out is colonization of other worlds? I’m not sure myself. Perhaps there are other issues that if solved, would lead to acceptable resolution-but thats another story as they say! As an aside-somehow topical, why not listen for fun to my album ‘Chthonic Netherworlds’ on www.itunes.com/paulstokes Album-Chthonic Netherworlds
Hi,
The LHC is hard at work and performing well. Today, two beams were rotated and smashed with a number of good collisions recorded at 2.36 TEV. Thats high, yet we will see collisions in the future of more than 7 TEV. All collisions are recorded and computerized and then analyzed for future consideration as prospective candidates for having human analysis performed on them! Lets hope the Higgs-Boson shows its ugly head! Carry on the good work!
by Stokes-Herbst on December 2, 2009
in Science
Hi All,
Since the successful start-up of the Large Hadron Collider there have been the odd spurious particle collisions. This has not immediately led to the ‘black hole’ scenario so far. However we have some way to go till there are full on particle collisions thus proving/disproving the black hole theory. Hopefully in a short while, we will be up to the full power mode where proton collisions are the norm. Then and only then will there be potential power to physically prove the generation of a black hole, and then it will probably shudder and die quickly.
With the full power mode of the LHC comes a new area of Physics-we wait with baited breath for the results!
Hi All,
Great news-the LHC has started back up and is smashing Protons-even though it is at low energy. It proves the great Detectors work and the whole machine is basically functional withe beams traveling in opposite directions. At these low energies, we wont get exotic particles like the proposed higgs-Boson, until the great machine is ramped up gradually to the final operating voltage. However the last few days have been great days for Physics!
The energies will be ramped up in stages to achieve a final operating voltage, where we can begin to expect collisions that produce the particles we would expect to see just a few milliseconds after the big-bang! When this is achieved, hope to produce rare particles that exist for only a fraction of a second, and that produce that elusive so called God particle!
This particle the Higgs-Boson, is supposed to be related to gravity-the great unknown force in the Universe. Once this is discovered/proved, then they may be able to understand how matter is ‘held together’ in a manner so elusive. Currently they think this may be in an all pervasive field throughout the whole Universe! Lets look forward to the future and all it contains………..
Personally, I am exploring some of these topics through music which you can access through this site…..
by Stokes-Herbst on November 25, 2009
in Science
The LHC has been cooled down to -271Deg K the coolest place in the Universe! Soon the starting up of the beams can commenced, bringing the worlds biggest machine and experiment on line. What will be found when the worlds biggest detector fires up and starts seeing particles buzzing about. I will be continuing my interest on the musical front and incorporating results into my thinking for future musical projects. Exciting times….
by Stokes-Herbst on November 18, 2009
in Science
The LHC is working very smoothly so far, and beams are now circulating the mammoth circle, ready to find the ‘GOD Particle’…the latest from the LHC page is:..
The LHC operations teams are preparing the machine for circulating beams and things are going very smoothly. ALICE and LHCb are getting used to observing particle tracks coming from the LHC beams. During the weekend of 7-8 November, CMS also saw its first signals from beams dumped just upstream of the experiment cavern….
Here’s looking out for the Higgs-Boson…the one that may describe the ‘field’ to all things...well not maybe everything!?
I am thinking of how I can compose something to it with Electronic sounds!!!!????
Cheers to the team!
Paul
Unbelievably the Net is so entrenched in our modern life that warfare can actually be carried out by Computer! – Nations are piling resources resources into this type of disablement. The targets are Nations infrastructure, and it seems has already been used by the US in Iraq.
“To go to physical war requires billions of dollars,” he said. “To go to cyber war most people can easily find the resources that could be used in these kind of attacks.” -Mr Day
May be my watch may someday self explode!-but as the theatre of war grows, devices could be planted in the most unlikely places such as the ‘bomb in a computer’ type scenario often seen on film such as Bond etc though the main threat is reconnaissance and infrastructure………..
The final launch success of the Ares-1-X is a cause for success for NASA attaining it’s stage separation. However the project is in jeopardy from Obama’s presidency. Possibly this is because he feels there are greater needs back here on Earth. Wouldn’t it be good to solve the major obstacles that plague this planet than invest in Space Technology? This would be a good course in my mind however as a scientifically trained person, I know that there are enormous positive repercussions for science and technology that benefits the planet! Many areas of technology are ‘grown’ that have a direct benefit for us from Power Stations/Electronics to food and Computers! it would be difficult quantify that improvement in the quality of our lives. Do we just cut the project without thought. That in my mind would be a catastrophe as we do not the long benefits and it’s consequences in a real way. I would call for a major research study into the benefits for the human race, with the thought tucked away that to explore is an inbuilt mechanism of the human race. Life is still to do with enjoyment and curiosity!
Hear my Christmas song ‘Christmas in Narnia’on www.itunes/paulstokes
I spoke to Electronic Composer Ian Boddy last night over a beer, and tried to hammer out some details about Geodesics and how to parallel musical interpretation against the particles movement and trajectories. (see previous blog) As with historical musical interpretations of the physics of the understood universe, the composers then went deeply into the understanding of maths-or discoursed with Mathematicians, to more accurately interpret the phenomena of the physics into musical phrase. I intend to capture the physics of Geodesics and related particles backgrounds into music.
