http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/big_bang/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 18:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/big_bang/#comment-150666 Antimatter and ‘Angels and Demons’: A fiction thought to be fact : OUPblog Tue, 19 May 2009 07:03:07 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2135#comment-150666 [...] antimatter in the Dan Brown novel (and now major cinema release) Angels and Demons. He has previously written for OUPblog on CERN’s Large Hadron [...] [...] antimatter in the Dan Brown novel (and now major cinema release) Angels and Demons. He has previously written for OUPblog on CERN’s Large Hadron [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/big_bang/#comment-149721 Antimatter: An Excerpt : OUPblog Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:29:14 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2135#comment-149721 [...] Antimatter is much loved by science fiction writers. Yet it is real: there are looking-glass particles that are counterparts of protons, electrons, and other familiar particles of matter. Below is an excerpt from Frank Close’s new book Antimatter, which explains that to even begin to understand antimatter you have to first look at the material world, including ourselves. Frank Close previously wrote for OUPblog on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. [...] [...] Antimatter is much loved by science fiction writers. Yet it is real: there are looking-glass particles that are counterparts of protons, electrons, and other familiar particles of matter. Below is an excerpt from Frank Close’s new book Antimatter, which explains that to even begin to understand antimatter you have to first look at the material world, including ourselves. Frank Close previously wrote for OUPblog on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/big_bang/#comment-147471 Ken Dixon Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:22:50 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2135#comment-147471 The picture of the tapestry is fine, but a tapestry has two sides. One side an image the other an incomprehensible mass of stitches. I think we are on a long journey, with many, many more questions. The picture of the tapestry is fine, but a tapestry has two sides. One side an image the other an incomprehensible mass of stitches.
I think we are on a long journey, with many, many more questions.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/big_bang/#comment-147422 Peter Morgan Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:26:58 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2135#comment-147422 Frank Close has the Kelvin Medal (1996), but does he want to relive Lord Kelvin's "Nineteenth-Century Clouds over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and Light" (1900)? "As the 21st century begins, physics can explain almost all of the fundamental phenomena revealed in the search for our origins, yet there are niggling loose ends". Lord Kelvin's choice of Clouds was prophetic, but the 20th Century, unhappily for Classical Physics, didn't refine his worldview, it turned it upside down. Frank Close has the Kelvin Medal (1996), but does he want to relive Lord Kelvin’s “Nineteenth-Century Clouds over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and Light” (1900)? “As the 21st century begins, physics can explain almost all of the fundamental phenomena revealed in the search for our origins, yet there are niggling loose ends”. Lord Kelvin’s choice of Clouds was prophetic, but the 20th Century, unhappily for Classical Physics, didn’t refine his worldview, it turned it upside down.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/big_bang/#comment-147415 shwetha Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:21:59 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2135#comment-147415 is there any effect to nature like about radiations emmited by the protons energy, since that will be 100,000 times more than suns energy is there any effect to nature like about radiations emmited by the protons energy, since that will be 100,000 times more than suns energy

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/big_bang/#comment-147413 Chirantan Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:52:55 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2135#comment-147413 Will the force produced inside earth due to this experiment will change the orbit of rotation of earth? Will the force produced inside earth due to this experiment will change the orbit of rotation of earth?

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