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Giant Particle Collider Struggles

The New York Times
The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections. Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile underground racetrack have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies.Some physicists are deserting the European project, at least temporarily, to work at a smaller, rival machine across the ocean.

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MSN
The planned restart of the world’s largest atom smasher has been delayed, its operator said. Scientists have to carry out further tests and put in place more safety measures to prevent a repeat of the faults which sidelined the 10 billion-dollar (£6 billion) machine shortly after start-up last year. The Large Hadron Collider was meant to restart in late September, but that will probably be pushed back two to three weeks to October, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.

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Cnet News
After a year of setbacks, CERN plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider in November at a tempo that won’t overtax the machinery behind the giant particle physics experiment.

The collider, located deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, will start out running at an energy level of 3.5 trillion electron volts (TeV) per beam, about half the energy that CERN expects eventually. The physicists will inject and capture high-energy beams running in each direction on the circular collider’s 17-mile circumference, log data over a number of weeks, and simply get themselves up to speed on the systems.

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Times Online
The Large Hadron Collider will run at only half its maximum energy when it restarts in November after a serious fault forced it to be shut down for more than a year.

Officials from the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva announced last night that it will be 2011 before the world’s most powerful atom-smasher reaches its full capacity.

While the £4 billion “big bang machine” should eventually be capable of running at an energy of 7 teraelectronvolts (TeV), it will operate initially at just 3.5 TeV when it starts smashing protons together in mid-November. The first science results are expected a few weeks later.

It will move up to higher energies only once engineers are confident that it is safe to do so, and it will reach maximum power only after it is shut down for a refit in the winter of 2010-11.

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Technology and the future – Hadron Collider

By Stacey T Pollock

What are the effects to consider through the utilization of free energy devices?

In this article I want to discuss the nature of the Hadron Collider, that which is well talked about subject, especially within the scientific field today. This device is seen as a particle accelerator and is studied and developed in a hope to find a method for utilizing free energy in the future. It is also designed in order to study the origin of energy and how it forms in existence. Scientists call this origin the big bang which is considered the place where all energy derives from.

When considering the nature of the Hadron Collider in relation to its usage, I myself agree with this assessment when it comes to finding origins of the universe and also free energy usage, however I also understand the detrimental effects that it can have on the human psyche when it comes to what I consider the warping of space. I want to discuss the benefits and detrimental effects that such energy devices can have on physical life, showing that it can not only have benefits but also consequences to the usage of such energy, especially in the initial stages while it is being developed.

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Dark energy may disguise shape of universe

By Pedro Ferreira (New Scientist)

We live in a special time. For the past two decades, most of my colleagues and I have been working under the assumption that we can know everything about the universe. We know the amount of matter and energy it contains. We know its shape is flat. We can trace its history from the earliest moments after the big bang and we can even predict its fate. Or at least we thought we could.

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Consumerism, financial systems and the future

By Stacey T Pollock

We are building towards a sustainable future that defines itself on one whole.

There are a lot of debates over the state of the economy at the moment, especially concerning the financial situation of the world at present. People are focusing a lot on the issue of consumerism, especially when it links to over indulgence with money, whether it is relating to large businesses and profits, or to the everyday spending of each individual in general. Perhaps our economic situation is produced out of our over consumerist nature or maybe it is a step in our own evolution of mind and material understanding?

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In the news:

Meltdown is a warning the world can’t afford to ignore
By Robin McKie (Guardian.co.uk)

The release of America’s spy satellite images of Arctic sea ice provides unexpected, dramatic new evidence about the dangers of global warming.

These visions of dwindling ice cover confirm that changes in climate in the planet’s high latitudes are progressing much faster than originally expected. And what happens there is bound to have an impact elsewhere on our overheating world, in particular to its rising sea levels.

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Suggested by Michael Lebeda

Spent
By Amitai Etzioni

America after consumerism.

Much of the debate over how to address the economic crisis has focused on a single word: regulation. And it’s easy to understand why. Bad behavior by a variety of businesses landed us in this mess–so it seems rather obvious that the way to avoid future economic meltdowns is to create, and vigorously enforce, new rules proscribing such behavior. But the truth is quite a bit more complicated. The world economy consists of billions of transactions every day. There can never be enough inspectors, accountants, customs officers, and police to ensure that all or even most of these transactions are properly carried out. Moreover, those charged with enforcing regulations are themselves not immune to corruption, and, hence, they too must be supervised and held accountable to others–who also have to be somehow regulated. The upshot is that regulation cannot be the linchpin of attempts to reform our economy. What is needed instead is something far more sweeping: for people to internalize a different sense of how one ought to behave, and act on it because they believe it is right.

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Interesting article to read:

Surprises from General Relativity: “Swimming” in Spacetime
By Eduardo Guéron (Scientific American)

In Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravity arises from spacetime being curved. Today, 90 years after Einstein developed the theory’s equations, physicists are still uncovering new surprises in them.

For example, in a curved space, a body can seemingly defy basic physics and “swim” through a vacuum without needing to push on anything or be pushed by anything.

Curved spacetime also allows a kind of gliding, in which a body can slow its fall even in a vacuum.

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Read this interesting four-part series originally from the Los Angeles Times:

Chasing Memory
By Terry McDermott

One man’s epic quest for understanding

Gary Lynch has spent decades trying to understand how the brain processes new information so that we can recall it later.

Lynch is a neuroscientist at UC Irvine, where he has spent 37 years trying to uncover the biochemical mechanisms of memory.

He has, for almost the length of his career, been trying to answer essentially a single pair of questions: What happens in the brain when a human being encounters a new experience so that he or she can recall it at will tonight, tomorrow, in 2025? And what goes wrong when we can’t remember?

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The Dual Mind: Logic and Intuition
By Bill M.Tracer

We will carry out an examination of the dual mind, left brain/right brain, and how they relate to logic or reason and intuition or emotion.

Viewing our own minds may be subject to a lack of objectivity. Looking in a mirror is inevitably a subjective experience. And seeking to understand our minds is a great deal like looking in that mirror. We’re forced to examine the human mind with human minds. It would seem that this might limit the extent of progress made in such a study, however who can better know what it is like to use a human mind than one who always does so? Ultimately, we are the best at carrying out self-examination, thus analyzing the dual nature of our own minds.

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Safe in a world of control

By Stacey T Pollock

People will choose for a world of order and security over their own individuality.

Order produces a level of comfort, in turn taking away the ability for someone to seek for new and other that does not specifically relate to what is socially accepted, it strips away individuality and uniqueness.  Individuality offers the ability to develop new concepts and ideas, but means that the individual has to take responsibility into their own hands for their own survival, taking away their level of comfort and security.  It is like facing a two edge sword which is really in the end decided based on circumstance and situation.  One thing is for sure, no two ways are right or wrong, just chosen to be accepted as a way to participate in life.  What can be acknowledged is that 95 percent of us here in life have already chosen for security and comfort and the ideas relating to order and an organized and structured society.  We are now living towards what most envision as a world in order, a future based upon regimentation that will bind all together into one global system.

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Is Time Disappearing From the Universe?

The Daily Galaxy
By Rebecca Sato

Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. This radical new theory may explain a cosmological mystery that has baffled scientists for years.

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It is not the end of the world

By Stacey T Pollock

Can we truly predict our own destruction?

Drama is the number one word that I would utilize to sum up the attitude of the world when it comes to our current understanding of prophecies and predictions for the future.  We are now living in a world obsessed with the notion of destruction and global annihilation.  The main question to ask is ‘why’. Why are people so fascinated by the idea of their own downfall and destruction even though they are still living each day in their own survival?

In this article I want to explore the concepts that are currently circumnavigating our information highway relating to past and future and to destruction and end times.  I want to highlight some important factors to take into consideration when accessing information and how people can themselves determine what is to be viewed as fact, fiction, or simply as an individual choice of a way to see their own reality.

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An informative video relating to the study of the mind in relation to science and religion:

Toward the First Revolution
in the Mind Sciences

By B. Allan Wallace

Although scientists have been studying the mind for more than a century, no comparable revolution has taken place in the mind sciences, and the missing element that may account for this delayed revolution is the absence of rigorous, precise observations of mental phenomena. By integrating the third-person methodologies of the cognitive sciences with the first-person methods for examining the mind that have been developed in Buddhism and other contemplative traditions, our present generation may bring about the first revolution in the mind sciences.

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Watch this very interesting and thought provoking video:

The Paradox of Choice

By Barry Schwartz

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

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