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Quad Core at the Particle of the Month Club
Blog If this is Tuesday, it must be Switzerland. More specifically, I'm at CERN where Intel wants to tell a large gaggle of Emeahacks about quad-core processing. I'm really here for the high energy physics, but don't tell anyone - and if there's a...
[November 14, 2006, 8:24 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Large Hadron Collider up and running again
Blog The world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is in operation again after more than a year of repairs. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said in a statement on Friday that particle beams are once again...
[November 20, 2009, 23:03 in News Blog by Karen Friar]
More boson goes on - computing with excitons...
Blog Or, as is the case with the excitons, a particle and an absence of a particle. When an electron falls into a hole, it gives out energy as a photon - that's how LEDs work - but the prelapsarian state can be considered as a particle in its own right.
[September 22, 2008, 19:18 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog For a start, there's Dr Richard Carrigan, a particle physicist from the Fermi labs in the US. Particle physicists are a peculiar breed, but he sounds something special. Now, all I have to do is work out how to entangle this text with a quantum...
[November 25, 2005, 17:20 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
LHC disaster.
Talkback Zealous, jealous, Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed 'Higgs Boson'(aka God) Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life...
About: Cern CIO: Supporting the LHC's computing backbone
[October 21, 2008, 21:23 by SaneScienceOrg]
Pencil + sticky tape = desktop supercollider + post-silicon processors
Blog Electrons, of course, are neither waves nor particles although they have wave and particle nature. Remember that an electron, normally a particle with mass and a tendency to hit things, behaves like a neutrino within graphene.
[November 6, 2007, 9:15 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Quantum cryptography becoming mainstream
Talkback Entangled Particle Storage and Communication possible someday.http://colossalstorage.net/home_entangled.htm
About: Quantum cryptography becoming mainstream
[February 7, 2005, 17:13]
RE: Steorn cancels free energy demonstration
Blog Comment There are many strange things in this world, relativity being just one, quantum mechanics, wave/particle duality, superconducitivity that all challenge and sometimes disproves the convention. As a physicist, I view this development with an open mind.
[July 10, 2007, 11:26 by samtheman1k]
RE: Back in the world of infinite free energy...
Blog Comment A 'real' particle such as an electron must always be viewed against this background of frenetic activity. Mary, You need to look into and research more on the areas of Zero Point Energy & Dark Energy.
[April 23, 2007, 0:33 by Malcolm The Marzipan Man]
Carbon copy the future of physics
Blog These include a fascinating array of exotic particle interactions, caused by the most peculiar way that electrons move through the carbon lattice. More exciting news from the increasingly carboniferous world of solid state physics.
[January 3, 2008, 19:34 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
RE: 60 GHz networking, the story so far
Blog Comment I know we've had Esaki diodes for a while now, and that it is perfectly respectable in certain circles to entertain the idea that in this libertarian age a particle can manifest anywhere within its probability function it jolly well chooses, but I...
[October 25, 2007, 10:56 by Rupert Goodwins]
Eh?
Talkback However, SR doesn't take into account Quantum mechanics as it assumes light is a particle, and thus ignores Heisenburgs uncertainty & also quantum tunelling, and thus maybe he does need to rewrite the SR theory to take into account uncertainty.
About: Future fibre networks to exceed light speed?
[August 20, 2007, 11:19 by samtheman1k]
The LHCgasm continues...
Blog Then again, the particle collisions are only scheduled for next month or later, so who knows. I was lucky enough to visit CERN just days before the Large Hadron Collider went live (w00t! and check this out: the geekiest keyring in history.
[September 10, 2008, 14:04 in by David Meyer]
Flashy balls make for mega-memory
Blog We've reported on the extremely weird behaviour of graphene before: it seems that when you put just a few sheets of planar carbon together, electrons behave almost as if they're a different kind of particle operating under different physical laws.
[April 22, 2008, 15:42 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
It's not electronic, it's not a card and it's not Christmassy, but...
Blog By sending a particle beam towards various points on the substrate, we can etch any pattern of points, especially one that represents text," said Zohar, a physics doctoral student. Another example of the convergence of the holy and the high-tech...
[December 21, 2007, 15:28 in Not Safe For Work by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They did point out that without their sort of reality there wouldn't be any TV, but that's just the sort of smart-arse particle fundamentalism that goes down at a pitch meeting like a teaspoon of dandruff.
[January 13, 2006, 17:05 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Surely, these particle-pumping physicists were blattering their leptons at whatever clever mix of magnetic molecules we currently smear on our platters, which I have no doubt will indeed run out of puff at some silly speed.
[April 23, 2004, 17:50 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Memristor - everything changes
Blog Some of the headlines - HP DIscovers Electronics God Particle - made me think it'd better to let that side of things burn itself out, and revisit it after cooler minds had taken a look. At least two or three times a week, we get a press release...
[May 8, 2008, 18:33 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's something rather worrying about having 25 kilovolts purring away just inches from my head, trapped in a large glass box containing a vacuum and grams of very toxic substances, and powering a particle accelerator pointed straight at my eyes.
[July 31, 2001, 16:48 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Stream Computing - not just a load of babble
Blog Big Blue’s product based on this approach is called System S and it will no doubt go down a storm with particle physicists everywhere. It was 8am on a bank holiday Monday morning that I was watching the IT news feeds and started seeing mentions of...
[May 26, 2009, 8:18 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
