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Coral Castle doesn't look much like a castle, but that hasn't discouraged generations of tourists from wanting to see it. That's because it was built by one man, Ed Leedskalnin, a Latvian immigrant who single-handedly and mysteriously excavated, carved, and erected over 2.2 million pounds of coral rock to build this place, even though he stood only five feet tall and weighed a mere 100 pounds. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/383-coral-castleCoral Castle doesn't look much like a castle, but that hasn't discouraged... more
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Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced that they have found evidence for significant violation of matter-antimatter symmetry in the behavior of particles containing bottom quarks beyond what is expected in the current theory, the Standard Model of particle physics. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/375-matter-antimatterScientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi... more
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Two theoretical physicists in the College of Liberal Art and Sciences and their colleagues are eager for the results of an experiment scheduled next fall at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland.
If the experiment confirms their work, it could change the way scientists think about protons, the positively charged particles that, along with neutrons, make up the nucleus of an atom.
Munir Islam, professor emeritus and research professor of physics, and Richard Luddy, research professor in the physics department who received his Ph.D. here in 2006, and two European colleagues have reported a model of the structure of the proton.
The structure of the proton is not yet known. If their model is confirmed by the LHC experiment, it will be a major step forward in our understanding of the proton, the physicists say.
How small is the proton they are studying? So small that it will be “seen” not visually, but virtually, the scientists explain. Its size is described by 14 zeros followed by one to the right of a decimal point, “a millionth of a billionth” of a meter.
The LHC went online in November 2009 after an interrupted start-up in 2008. Just this week, it “smashed” its first protons, or achieved its first proton-proton collisions.
The experiments in Switzerland bring together protons, among the tiniest of particles, and the LHC, the world’s largest scientific instrument and highest energy particle collider. The LHC is located at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, near Geneva.
The proton model that Islam has worked on for more than 30 years shows a proton with three layers. Confined in its core are three quarks, or point-like subatomic particles, surrounded by two rings of “clouds.” The ring closest to the core has what the physicists describe as an exotic charge, a “baryonic charge.” The outer cloud ring is composed of quarks and anti-quarks in a condensed state.Two theoretical physicists in the College of Liberal Art and Sciences and their... more
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The giant ALICE detector is already underway at CERN, and researchers are scrambling to add an electromagnetic calorimeter to capture jet-quenching, the newest way to look inside the quark-gluon plasma — the hot, dense state of matter that filled the earliest universe, which the Large Hadron Collider will soon recreate by slamming lead nuclei into one another. ...... http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=165:meet-alice-new-cerns-giant-detector&catid=29:the-cms&Itemid=20The giant ALICE detector is already underway at CERN, and researchers are scrambling... more
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We made this video about the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but often misunderstood. Its' a short but accurate description of the core theory of the Big Bang with captivating story telling and stunning visuals.
This video was produced without any funding from any outside sources. It was put together with donated creative time from a group with a desire to further public cognition of science.
Science has many amazing stories to tell, this is the first of the Briefly series.
The Big Bang Briefly.
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Story Teller: Janna Levin
Director: Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner
Producer: Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner
Animation Studio: Thornberg & Forester
Director of Animation: Justin Meredith
Editorial: Proton Studio
DP: Luke Geissbuhler
Music: Copilot
Color: James Long
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thornbergandforester.comWe made this video about the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but... more
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This was a visual test of the newly designed proton stream for the Las Vegas Ghostbusters. The packs being more of the mock-2 style needed an updated look. Even though we are big fans of the original this made more sense to us. It was a lot of fun coming up with and we are looking forward to putting it to screen tests with the actors.This was a visual test of the newly designed proton stream for the Las Vegas... more
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