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September 27th 2009 |
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Scientist in Europe might accidentally create a black hole that could swallow the earth?
No joke!
Is the reward worth the risk?
The LHC or "large hadron collider" Is the biggest and most expensive scientific experiment in history. It is a 17 mile long pipe in the shape of a ring, buried 330 feet down under the earth along the French and Swedish borders near lake Geneva. It has cost close to 6 billion dollars to build and hundreds of millions of dollars to run. It is funded by over 30 nations including the United States.
This giant experiment is organized and ran buy a European agency called CERN. The scientist at CERN hope to capture and study a hypothetical particle called the Higgs boson (some times referred to as the God particle). This particle is so small and so fast that billions of them pass through the earth every day undetected. It is thought to be the fundamental building block of the universe.
Once the machine is turned on and ramped up to full power, the collider could find evidence of extra dimensions, a boon for superstring theory, which holds that quarks, the particles that make up atoms, are infinitesimal vibrating strings.
The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some other bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space.
However some scientist are concerned that the experiment could get out of control, and that there is a small but real chance that they might create a Black Hole that would swallow the earth.
The safety of the collider, which will generate energies seven times higher than its most powerful rival, at Fermilab near Chicago, has been debated for years. The physicist Martin Rees has estimated the chance of an accelerator producing a global catastrophe at one in 50 million - long odds, to be sure, but about the same as winning some lotteries.
Is the reward worth the risk? Most of the world scientists say yes!
Here is a you tube video that explains CERN
Here is a you tube video that CERN does not want you to see.
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Monty Python's the univers song
On a lighter note Monty Python explains the complexities of the universe in this short music video.
"Pray that there is some intelligent life some were up in space because there is bugger all down here on earth" Monty Python.
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What is a LCD TV
The most popular television set sold today.
Liquid-crystal display televisions (LCD TV) are color television sets that use LCD technology to produce images. LCD televisions are thinner and lighter than CRTs of similar display size, and are available in much larger sizes as well. This combination of features made LCDs more practical than CRTs for many roles, and as manufacturing costs fell their eventual dominance of the television market was all but guaranteed.
In 2007, LCD televisions surpassed sales of CRT-based televisions worldwide for the first time, and its sales figures relative to other technologies is accelerating. LCD TVs are quickly displacing the only major competitors in the large-screen market, the plasma display panel and rear-projection television. LCDs are, by far, the most widely produced and sold television technology today, pushing all other technologies into niche roles.
In spite of the LCD's many advantages over the CRT technology they displaced, LCDs also have a variety of disadvantages as well. A number of other technologies are vying to enter the large-screen television market by taking advantage of these weaknesses, including OLEDs, FED and SED, but none of these have entered widespread production.
You can find LCD tv's and much more at Jerseyville Carpet, Furniture, Bedding, appliance, and Electronics galleries in Jerseyville Illinois. 618-639-9858
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| Panda Dog
every one needs a dog
A dog named 'Columbo', a cross-breed between a poodle and a Maltese and dyed to look like a panda, sits on a chair in Tokyo November 30, 2005. The owner dyed the originally white coloured dog, with a special hair dye to cover up stains around its eyes which was conspicuous when he was first found abandoned.
As a result, the panda look-alike became the most popular dog in the neighbourhood and the owner said he hopes Columbo's popularity will help rescue other abandoned dogs like Columbo, where in Tokyo last year, 700 of them were put to sleep.
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The big bedding sale going on now.
 Jerseyville Carpet, Furniture, Bedding, Appliance, and TV Galleries
1672 s. State Street
Jerseyville IL 62052
618-639-9858 The gallery store would like to get ride of all the discontinued, and oddball sets of bedding.
Queen size sets starting at $199.00
Hurry in while they last
First come first serve
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