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Physics: Lisa Randall
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10510773/site/newsweek/
Looking at the Earth's tiniest particles to explain the mysteries of
the cosmos
By Jerry Adler
Newsweek
Dec. 26, 2005 - Jan 2, 2006 issue - Sometime in 2007, the Large Hadron
Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, will start
operations near Geneva, Switzerland, and the universe we think we know
may disappear in a shower of elementary particles. Few will be watching
the results more carefully than a soft-spoken young Harvard professor
named Lisa Randall, who has been making a name for herself as one of
the most promising theoretical physicists of her generation. That she
teaches at a university whose president once publicly doubted that
women could compete at the top levels of science interests her far less
than what we might find when we begin taking apart protons at 7
trillion volts.
Lisa Randall
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/ceec88e1f4a66b43
CERN
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/79f9962fce160f7b
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| Title: Re: Looking at the Earth's tiniest particles to explain the mysteries of the cosmos |
31 Dec 2005 01:00:34 PM |
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In alt.atheism, maff
<maff91@yahoo.com>
wrote
on 31 Dec 2005 03:36:48 -0800
<1136029008.879791.50550@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:
Physics: Lisa Randall
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10510773/site/newsweek/
Looking at the Earth's tiniest particles to explain the mysteries of
the cosmos
By Jerry Adler
Newsweek
Dec. 26, 2005 - Jan 2, 2006 issue - Sometime in 2007, the Large Hadron
Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, will start
operations near Geneva, Switzerland, and the universe we think we know
may disappear in a shower of elementary particles. Few will be watching
the results more carefully than a soft-spoken young Harvard professor
named Lisa Randall, who has been making a name for herself as one of
the most promising theoretical physicists of her generation. That she
teaches at a university whose president once publicly doubted that
women could compete at the top levels of science interests her far less
than what we might find when we begin taking apart protons at 7
trillion volts.
Lisa Randall
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/ceec88e1f4a66b43
CERN
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/79f9962fce160f7b
Regrettably, those over in sci.physics include a number of idiots
who still think that superluminal muons are possible, despite
the massive evidence to the contrary.
Oh, and a Pedant Point: that's 7 trillion electron-volts, a unit
of energy. In light of this energy value, BTW, this is far more
than is needed to accelerate a proton to light-speed in Newtonian
theory (a proton's 1/2 m_p c^2 is about 470 MeV). Yet the parameters
in the LHC stipulate that these protons travel at lightspeed, or
close thereto -- not at 122 times lightspeed.
Good luck to Ms. Randall, if she's reading any of these newsgroups. :-)
Followups to sci.physics.
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#191,
It's still legal to go .sigless.
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