Previous in Forum: Making A Beam More Rigid.   Next in Forum: SpaceX Nails Landing for 2nd Time
Close

Comments Format:






Change Mode
Close

Subscribe to Discussion:

CR4 allows you to "subscribe" to a discussion
so that you can be notified of new comments to
the discussion via email.

Close

Rating Vote:







Add Vote
16 comments
Rate Comments: Nested
Fredski
Guru

Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 7025
Good Answers: 207

What Is It?

05/05/2016 8:19 AM
Register to Reply
Interested in this topic? By joining CR4 you can "subscribe" to
this discussion and receive notification when new comments are added.
JE in Chicago
Guru

Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Chicago
Posts: 3990
Good Answers: 144
#1

Re: what is it?

05/05/2016 8:32 AM

Some CERN data they have generously released?

__________________
 High Tolerance is Beautiful
Register to Reply
Fredski
Guru

Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 7025
Good Answers: 207
#6
In reply to #1

Re: what is it?

05/05/2016 9:06 AM

possibly
Register to Reply
PWSlack
Guru
United Kingdom - Member - Indeterminate Engineering Fields - Control Engineering - New Member

Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on.
Posts: 32175
Good Answers: 839
#2

Re: what is it?

05/05/2016 8:50 AM

The new KrisDelTM fibre-optic lamp? How about the LynDoor IndustriesTM Digital Peashooter game, then? No? Oh well. Never mind.

__________________
 "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
Register to Reply
redfred
Guru
Engineering Fields - Electrical Engineering - Been there, done that. Engineering Fields - Control Engineering - New Member

Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Long Island NY
Posts: 15600
Good Answers: 981
#3

Re: what is it?

05/05/2016 9:01 AM

I was thinking another Super Kamiokande detection of a super nova.

__________________
 "Don't disturb my circles." translation of Archimedes last words
Register to Reply
Fredski
Guru

Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 7025
Good Answers: 207
#4
In reply to #3

Re: what is it?

05/05/2016 9:04 AM

think lead Ions @ high speed
Register to Reply
PWSlack
Guru
United Kingdom - Member - Indeterminate Engineering Fields - Control Engineering - New Member

Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on.
Posts: 32175
Good Answers: 839
#5
In reply to #4

Re: what is it?

05/05/2016 9:05 AM

Nope. Nothing comes to mind. :-P

__________________
 "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
Register to Reply
redfred
Guru
Engineering Fields - Electrical Engineering - Been there, done that. Engineering Fields - Control Engineering - New Member

Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Long Island NY
Posts: 15600
Good Answers: 981
#7
In reply to #4

Re: what is it?

05/05/2016 9:25 AM

Oh Ricky you're so fine

You're so fine you blow my mind

Hey RHIC(y)

__________________
 "Don't disturb my circles." translation of Archimedes last words
Register to Reply
Fredski
Guru

Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 7025
Good Answers: 207
#8
In reply to #7

Re: what is it?

05/05/2016 9:30 AM

not New York, sorry Toni
Register to Reply
lyn
Guru

Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 42355
Good Answers: 1693
#9

Re: What Is It?

05/05/2016 9:47 AM

Your brain on acid.
Register to Reply
Mikerho
Guru
Hobbies - Musician - Engineering Fields - Chemical Engineering - New Member Engineering Fields - Control Engineering - New Member Engineering Fields - Instrumentation Engineering - New Member

Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Moses Lake, WA, USA, Thulcandra - The Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis)
Posts: 4216
Good Answers: 194
#10

Re: What Is It?

05/05/2016 11:26 AM

Hey, it's quark-gluon plasma!

http://news.mit.edu/2012/lead-proton-collisions-at-large-hadron-collider-yield-surprising-results-1127

__________________
 "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand
Register to Reply
JE in Chicago
Guru

Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Chicago
Posts: 3990
Good Answers: 144
#11
In reply to #10

Re: What Is It?

05/05/2016 1:16 PM

I would have thought it were smaller!?

...if so? and I don't doubt it one bit... What's the use?

__________________
 High Tolerance is Beautiful
Register to Reply
Fredski
Guru

Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 7025
Good Answers: 207
#12
In reply to #10

Re: What Is It?

05/05/2016 3:12 PM

yes, I was looking at this though, Not MIT stuff

New record set at CERN

http://www.labnews.co.uk/news/new-record-set-cern-01-12-2015/
Register to Reply
horace40
Guru

Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Tamworth, UK.
Posts: 1782
Good Answers: 45
#14
In reply to #12

Re: What Is It?

05/06/2016 8:46 AM

"It is believed this collision will help researchers develop new and detailed models of the quark-gluon-plasma that existed a few billionths of a second after the Big Bang.

For myself, I am curious what happened right at the time of the Big Bang, not ages after.

__________________
 When arguing, remember mud-slinging = lost ground.
Register to Reply
redfred
Guru
Engineering Fields - Electrical Engineering - Been there, done that. Engineering Fields - Control Engineering - New Member

Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Long Island NY
Posts: 15600
Good Answers: 981
#15
In reply to #14

Re: What Is It?

05/06/2016 9:14 AM

A few billionths of a second after the big bang is the time of the big bang. It most certainly not ages afterwards. A few billionths of a second is not even one age. This is a far shorter period of time than the age of dinosaurs, or man, or the Elizabethan age. IA few billionths of a second is a shorter period of time than cheap whiskey claims to be aged.

__________________
 "Don't disturb my circles." translation of Archimedes last words
Register to Reply
horace40
Guru

Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Tamworth, UK.
Posts: 1782
Good Answers: 45
#16
In reply to #15

Re: What Is It?

05/06/2016 1:13 PM

Mine was a flippant response not to be taken too seriously or literally.

But it did include a touch of science and relativity, and a touch of philosophy.

What was the science relative to the 'speed of time' at the instant of the BB?

A billionth of a second (in terms of today) might have taken a million years to pass when the Universe first appeared from 'nothing', and philosophically what was there a billionth of a second before the BB (on any time scale) if not nothing.

And still philosophically (without bringing religion into the equation) will the Universe disappear when I die, and on this theme, where was there a Universe before I was born - or more specifically where was I before I was born.

I don't expect an answer, but when CERN come up with some revelations close to the BB - even if not a direct answer - it tends to generate some thinking on the subject.

__________________
 When arguing, remember mud-slinging = lost ground.
Register to Reply
Just an Engineer
Guru
Australia - Member - New Member

Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 2181
Good Answers: 255
#13

Re: What Is It?

05/06/2016 7:42 AM

A visual representation of the highest cost per unit volume of anything ever done by mankind!

__________________
 Just an Engineer from the land down under.
Register to Reply
Register to Reply
Have a Different Question?
16 comments
Copy to Clipboard

Users who posted comments:

Fredski (4); horace40 (2); JE in Chicago (2); Just an Engineer (1); lyn (1); Mikerho (1); PWSlack (2); redfred (3)

Previous in Forum: Making A Beam More Rigid.   Next in Forum: SpaceX Nails Landing for 2nd Time

Advertisement

Got Something to Say?
Ask a Question
Start a Discussion

Search this Forum
General Discussion:
Go

CR4 Sections
Aerospace
BioMech & BioMed
Chemical & Material Science
Civil Engineering
Communications & Electronics
Education and Engineering Careers
Electrical Engineering
General Discussion
Instrumentation
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
New Technologies & Research
Software & Programming
Sustainable Engineering
Transportation

Site Directories
Forum Directory
Blog Directory
User Group Directory
RSS Feeds

CR4 Rules of Conduct
CR4 FAQ
Site Glossary

Who's Online (47 right now)
Show Members
Advertisement