Recent content by BrianL

"new to physics" was what got me thinking about this originally. I suppose you can't rule that out, among all the unknowns. (I'm not going to say "unknown unknowns") The news programs are worse for us in the UK - we've got a general election in a few weeks time. Fortunately the volcano pushed...

It looks like I haven't expressed my question properly, so I'll see if I can do that. At some time when the LHC was being designed (and independent of the controversy), it seems to me that it would have been a reasonable for someone to think something like this - "Temperatures 100,000 times...

Is there a "black box recorder" at the LHC? To explain the question further: are there real-time records of exactly what's going on and/or voice recorders, analogous to what there are in commercial jets? If there were to be a major catastrophe at the LHC, they would need to know precisely what...

The Brookhaven National Laboratory's website has a news item on 'Hot Quark Soup' which seems to mean quark-gluon plasma. (http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=1077) The article refers to "this remarkable form of matter, which last existed some 13 billion years ago". At...