The End of the Universe? Really?
Sorry I haven't been updating much recently; it is simply because nothing worth posting about has happened, and I don't want to bore you. I really don't have a proper reason to update today, but I thought I would because my journal needs posts, poor little neglected thing **pets it**
Anyway, today one of the teachers was telling us about CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the machine in Geneva that's been so controversial, due to the possibilty of a black hole being created whilst they attempt to recreate the conditions at the start of the universe. Apparently the latest addition to the machine is 27km in size, and runs under the entire city of Geneva. There are various experiments conducted in the LHC, one of which is trying to collide protons, in order to discover a new kind of subatomic particle: a graviton. Apparently scientists believe this particle is responsible for gravity, because at the minute no one knows why gravity occurs. Apparently gravitons are inside protons, and may be so small that they are able to exist in more than the three dimensions that we occupy, which is why gravity is a relatively weak force (what that's relative to, I don't know, but apparently it is a weak force). I had no idea that scientists think there are some particles that are more than three-dimensional. This is why I love physics. I normally dislike it most out of the three sciences (biology, chemistry and physics), even though I love science as a whole, but today, the physics that was concentrated on (although it was a biology lesson) was far more interesting than electric circuits and turning forces, which I hate. I love atomic structure and universal theory things. Because it's so amazingly complicated that nobody knows the answers! :D Apparently there's a trip to CERN's factory where the LHC is in Geneva that A-Level students visit if doing Physics at A-Level. It's times like this that I'm happy I'm going to have to take A-Level Physics!
Also, there's an interesting article about the controversy surrounding the machine here. Well, interesting depending on your interests xD
In totally opposite news, I started reading The Scarlett Letter last night. I've not read much, but already I'm hooked. This quote from the introdutory chapter, I thought was kind of appropriate for the concept of LiveJournal:
But, as thoughts are frozen and utterance benumbled unless the speaker stand in some true relation with his audience, it may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive, though not the closest friend, is listening to our talk; and then a native reserve being thawed by this genial conciousness, we may prate of the circumstances that lie around us, and even of ourself, but still keep the inmost Me behind its veil.
Anyway, today one of the teachers was telling us about CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the machine in Geneva that's been so controversial, due to the possibilty of a black hole being created whilst they attempt to recreate the conditions at the start of the universe. Apparently the latest addition to the machine is 27km in size, and runs under the entire city of Geneva. There are various experiments conducted in the LHC, one of which is trying to collide protons, in order to discover a new kind of subatomic particle: a graviton. Apparently scientists believe this particle is responsible for gravity, because at the minute no one knows why gravity occurs. Apparently gravitons are inside protons, and may be so small that they are able to exist in more than the three dimensions that we occupy, which is why gravity is a relatively weak force (what that's relative to, I don't know, but apparently it is a weak force). I had no idea that scientists think there are some particles that are more than three-dimensional. This is why I love physics. I normally dislike it most out of the three sciences (biology, chemistry and physics), even though I love science as a whole, but today, the physics that was concentrated on (although it was a biology lesson) was far more interesting than electric circuits and turning forces, which I hate. I love atomic structure and universal theory things. Because it's so amazingly complicated that nobody knows the answers! :D Apparently there's a trip to CERN's factory where the LHC is in Geneva that A-Level students visit if doing Physics at A-Level. It's times like this that I'm happy I'm going to have to take A-Level Physics!
Also, there's an interesting article about the controversy surrounding the machine here. Well, interesting depending on your interests xD
In totally opposite news, I started reading The Scarlett Letter last night. I've not read much, but already I'm hooked. This quote from the introdutory chapter, I thought was kind of appropriate for the concept of LiveJournal:
But, as thoughts are frozen and utterance benumbled unless the speaker stand in some true relation with his audience, it may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive, though not the closest friend, is listening to our talk; and then a native reserve being thawed by this genial conciousness, we may prate of the circumstances that lie around us, and even of ourself, but still keep the inmost Me behind its veil.