#particle accelerator

[jareckiworld]

Julia Curyło — LHC, Genesis (oil on canvas & aluminium and plastic frame, 2011)

[science70]

Lower magnet sectors being assembled in the cyclotron vault of the TRIUMF particle accelerator, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1971.

[todaysdocument]

East tangent tank inner radius. Photograph taken December 14 1953. Bevatron-635

Record Group 434: General Records of the Department of EnergySeries: Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

This black and white photograph shows a technician working on a large particle accelerator.  There are many pipes and ductwork running from the machine.  The accelerator is made of metal and rising about 20 feet high.

[dougielombax]

I stumbled across this meme somewhere on tumblr.

I can’t recall where exactly.

But I thought it was funny as hell.

Darkly so, but still.

Poor wee bugger didn’t stand a chance.

[zi-olan]

any time i hear about some advancement or discovery in physics, whether it's astronomical or subatomic, im struck by this sense that, despite all our technological progress, our methods for figuring that stuff out has not changed much in the past two or three million years: "let's hit these two rocks together, i wanna see what happens"

[piccolopapichulo]

[mindblowingscience]

The standard model of particle physics tells us that most particles we observe are made up of combinations of just six types of fundamental entities called quarks. However, there are still many mysteries, one of which is an exotic, but very short-lived, Lambda resonance known as Λ(1405). For a long time, it was thought to be a particular excited state of three quarks—up, down, and strange—and understanding its internal structure may help us learn more about the extremely dense matter that exists in neutron stars.

Investigators from Osaka University were part of a team that has now succeeded in synthesizing Λ(1405) for the first time by combining a K- meson and a proton and determining its complex mass (mass and width). The K− meson is a negatively charged particle containing a strange quark and an up antiquark. The much more familiar proton that makes up the matter that we are used to has two up quarks and a down quark. The researchers showed that Λ(1405) is best thought of as a temporary bound state of the K- meson and the proton, as opposed to a three-quark excited state.

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[zoeyhorse]

What i think it would be like if PinkiePie fell into the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland

[rolandrockover]

Only the Lonely

In the past, sometime in the 17th or 18th century, there were the alchemists who were known above all for trying in vain to transform lead into its neighboring element, gold. Modern science, on the other hand, has shown that at least one particle accelerator is needed to achieve what the alchemists labored to no purpose for years to achieve, whereas in Greek mythology, King Midas only needed a touch of the hand.

I can't say for sure what exactly happens when Gene touches something with his hand, nor can I say for sure whether he is in possession of a particle accelerator, nor whether you need one to achieve the opposite, namely to turn gold into lead. The only thing I can say for certain is that he has managed this special trick more than once, apparently effortlessly.

Oh, it's about Animalize again today, you're probably wondering. That's right, it's once again about Animalize, but also a bit about The Elder. And for that, I think we're more than happy to take another, different look at Only You's standout middle part, which I've already drawn a parallel to a very specific song on Creatures of the Night in a previous entry.

And to fulfill the more unpleasant part of our duty, we'd rather do the same with Lonely Is the Hunter and its rather less shiny middle section. If you don't notice any similarities straight away, I can only recommend setting the Only You Player to triple speed. After that, it should be like scales falling from your eyes.

When you click on the links, they don't turn into gold, but at least they start exactly at the points discussed above. That's quite something:

Only You (1981)

Lonely Is the Hunter (1984)

[rumor-imbris]

Ok, I know nobody will give a damn (less than what I write perhaps xD) but I just found out that in my town's central hospital they're building and testing a particle accelerator to bombard cancer cells with high precision for better, faster cures and way less collateral effects on patients. This might replace traditional chemo or radiotherapy in a future not far, how cool is that? I think it's absolutely fantastic! It's Physics applied to medicine and it's here and now, not a sci-fi media! ヾ(＠＾▽＾＠)ﾉ

These are the things that make me believe in humanity again and it all starts with progress and scientific research

[jareckiworld]

Julia Curyło — LHC, Judgement  (oil on canvas & aluminium frame, 2011)

[beardedmrbean]

[scanzen]

Van de Graaff particle accelerator, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh, PA, August 7, 1945.

aka the Westinghouse Atom Smasher

via ExplorePAHIstory

[nelc]

CERN Accelerators (Not to scale)

[dougielombax]

Ma’am, this is a particle accelerator…

[proxy303]

An actual particle accelerator at University of Maryland.

This looks like something straight out of sci fi.