CERN

The protocol for the internet, the current one is ip6 which allows for 128^2 ip addresses for us to use, was developed by several people at cern Switzerland. Even though it might be the newest protocol being used it’s not the most common and it’s quite old. Ip4 is used by 94 percent of networks and computers as of now and ip6 was developed all the way back in 1998 with a mobile revision in 2004. Berners lee is considered the father of the world wide web and he created it actually just for physicists to share extraneous amounts of data more easily. He wanted to create a common ground for computers to use and share data, and he did just that. Today the internet, in my eyes, is controlled chaos. It’s composed of billions of computers and networks all working together and sharing data and somehow thanks to brilliant engineers, physicists, computer scientists,…

Higgs struggled to prove his theories as the Higgs boson particle is extremely unstable so it would constantly collapse into smaller particles almost as soon as it was created. So, the scientist faced an extra problem due to the fact not only that they had to create the particle but detect it directly before it collapsed. Mr. Higgs came up with a proposal to infer the presence from the smaller particles (by construction a giant particle accelerator located on the Swiss-French border CERN…

The book's theme song would be “Run Boy Run” which reflects how we do unimaginable or crazy things when being threatened. The song illustrates a boy running, in the book the boy would Robert or the Catholics doing things that seemed crazy. In the novel Robert does things he never would’ve thought he would do. Because of this “Run Boy Run” would best fit for a theme song. The eerie and dark song “Secret” by the Pierces reflects the book's sinister mood. Like the book, it has images of death and…

Really, it isn't as bad as many think. At CERN (the main producer of antimatter) their storage capacity for antimatter when full couldn’t even give off as much energy as a calorie in food. As of right now, CERN could not make enough antimatter at a time to cause a big explosion. The only problem is what if CERN want to mass produce antimatter in the future and use it for various tasks? They would have to try to find a way to contain the antimatter using magnets for a longer period of time and…

science and technology. Because they open-source their data and encourage participation, it increases the amount of people throughout the world trying to improve software, solve problems, or contribute data. This takes away from the theory of multiples claimed by Clive Thompson in his book, Smarter Than You Think. Thompson, who is a freelance journalist and writer about STEM, claims that ideas come in multiples: multiple people discover something at the same time. (Thompson, 58) Instead of…

Flashforward The story is centered around a supernatural event called the flashforward that is caused by unforeseen circumstances. Scientists at the CERN particle collider facility in Geneva, Switzerland conduct an experiment in which they hope will detect the Higgs Boson particle. Instead, the scientists "Flashforward" experiencing visions of their lives twenty years in the future then return to discover that they've been unconscious for two minutes. The aftereffect from the flashforward…

The council was founded in 1952 to create an organization for physics in Europe. There are currently 25 countries who have contributed to the creation and upkeep of the LHC, including: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Although, Israel, the Russian Federation, Turkey, Yugoslavia, the European Commission, and Unesco are not…

chose this text from the book Angels and Demons by the well-known author Dan Brown. The story mainly takes place in Rome and I believe it depicts a battle between two very influential components in society: science and religion. Dan Brown shows us a contrast between the beliefs of science and religion and the tension that’s created when they're combined. As the book progresses the main problem Brown is trying to address is the question a lot of characters in the book are trying to answer, can…

Coincidentally, CERN also became a major contributor to the development of the World Wide Web in its earliest stages. Computer scientist Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the use of hypertext and its protocols, with CERN providing the necessary host servers. They envisioned that scientists all over the world could collectively contribute and gather information from these host servers. Certainly, the simple argument that big science itself contains unscientific goals cannot…

Art and science have always been seen as completely separate and opposite studies. Art has always been seen as the display of pictures created by talented artists, while on the other hand, science has always been seen as experiments and research. In the documentary, Particle Fever, the movie brings attention to the different view of the arts and sciences as two interdependent subjects. The director, Dr. David Kaplan, uses the documentary to give his audience an inside view to the world’s largest…