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jareckiworld · 1 year
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Julia Curyło — LHC, Genesis (oil on canvas & aluminium and plastic frame, 2011)
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escuerzoresucitado · 5 months
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dougielombax · 8 months
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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.
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piccolopapichulo · 8 months
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zi-olan · 2 months
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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"
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mindblowingscience · 1 year
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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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todaysdocument · 4 months
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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.
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zoeyhorse · 11 months
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What i think it would be like if PinkiePie fell into the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland
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rumor-imbris · 1 year
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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
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These are the things that make me believe in humanity again and it all starts with progress and scientific research
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scanzen · 2 years
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Van de Graaff particle accelerator, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh, PA, August 7, 1945.
aka the Westinghouse Atom Smasher
via ExplorePAHIstory
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nelc · 1 year
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CERN Accelerators (Not to scale)
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jareckiworld · 10 months
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Julia Curyło — LHC, Judgement  (oil on canvas & aluminium frame, 2011)
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proxy303 · 8 months
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An actual particle accelerator at University of Maryland.
This looks like something straight out of sci fi.
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dougielombax · 2 months
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Ma’am, this is a particle accelerator…
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thedaveandkimmershow · 7 months
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We snapped one of our first selfies back when we were dating. A long, long time ago. We met, though, years before that moment. Maybe by even more than a decade.
To hear my mom tell it, Kimmer had her eye on me way way back in Sunday school. I think, though, that's just my mom retconning what's otherwise two high energy kids existing in proximity who naturally recognize members of their own ADHD tribe.
Now, neither of us went on to formal diagnoses but my boy scout troop leader did tell my mom I was "hyper".
She was not amused.
And there's no question I drove various grade school teachers to distraction with my behavior. Absolutely. My first grade, fifth grade, and sixth grade teachers especially, I won't lie.
I can't tell you what Kimmer's experience was, but I'm sure she wouldn't be surprised that she was characterized as high energy in polite company. By today's standards, she seemed an extrovert. She was definitely inquisitive, adventurous, confident, funny. She was quick. Pretty much all the kinds of things you have to be in order to keep getting into trouble at school.
So we were birds of a feather. And we did run in overlapping circles growing up in church.
My enduring memories of Kimmer are two-fold. First, a mental still photograph of her in my mind. It's a moment just outside the doors to the chapel at First United Methodist Church, the building with the dome next to the Columbia Tower on fifth between Marion and Columbia. I was with whoever I was with walking to the chapel for kids church when we turned the corner and there she was in front of the doors. My memory didn't capture why she was there, who she was waiting for. It just captured the image. She's wearing a white dress with faded pink crosshatches. She's smiling. Not at us... she's just smiling. 
The second memory's a later one, closer to high school, I think. It's more of a video memory with motion and sound. We're both at some youth event on the other side of Aurora Avenue from the Woodland Park Zoo. We're playing touch football and, at some point during the game she rips my shirt pocket off my, you know, shirt.
So that happened.
Followed by accusations, protestations, deflections and so on.
Of course.
There are other memories we share growing up. But in general I think that's just what they are: shared memories. Not necessarily ones focused on each other (unless my mom was right about Kimmer from the very beginning, of course 😉). Otherwise, we share memories of youth group, of dances, of overnight conferences (lots of stories from the one in particular), as well as the boys and girls choirs we were in plus that dance group I think she was in. 
All 'n all...
Just a coupla high energy kids growing up in proximity like particles in a particle accelerator speeding in opposite directions along the same circular path.
Or something.
Anyway...
We snapped maybe our first selfie the old fashioned way in a fun house mirror when we were dating.
It was a long, long time ago...
But we've known each other much longer ago than that.
☺️❤️❤️❤️
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emperornorton47 · 1 year
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