LHC links. Black hole links. Procrastination.
From what I can see, the blogosphere is abuzz. (I'm a few days off, yes.) The science programs and blogs have been abuzz for quite a while longer, though.
So, linkage from various web trawls. (Most of these pages have yet more links.)
The Large Hadron Collider (at CERN):
LHC homepage (a little intimidating)
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html
http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/ (and blog)
http://www.uslhc.us/ (and blogs)
CBC Quirks and Quarks on the LHC (September 6, 2008) (January 20, 2007: four from the top) (a reference in October, 1994)
NOVA scienceNOW: CERN (check out the NOVA podcasts as well)
NPR Science Friday: August 29, 2008, April 11, 2008
Exploratorium: CERN: The Heart of the Matter
CERN rap (for real. I laughed the whole way through last night.)
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html
The rather tired recent post at Backreaction.
The slightly snarky recent post at Bad Astronomy.
NOVA scienceNOW Dispatches summarizes everything you need to know in 2.7 minutes: July 6, 2007.
xkcd comics 474 and 401
And cue various references in forums to Gordan Freeman.
Fiction:
Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer (Canadian!)
Black holes:
Tons and tons of stuff.
Quirks and Quarks and Science Friday have done a few stories on black holes, because, well, everyone always asks about them.
NOVA: Monster of the Milky Way
Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars (very, very cool animations hosted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day site.)
I learned about them mostly from books (The Trouble with Physics, Death by Black Hole, Flatterland, The Elegant Universe...and of course, the classic and slightly incomprehensible A Brief History of Time), magazines, the above podcasts, and public talks.
Fiction: Positively everywhere.
Young Wizards has a sentient white hole in the very first book.
Thief of Time features a (spoilers!!) clock that exhibits behaviour similar to a black hole.
Many of us know the Eye of Harmony was a black hole harnessed by the Time Lords.
Presumably a "matter bridge" in Stargate: Atlantis's "McKay and Mrs. Miller" would involve a wormhole?
So, linkage from various web trawls. (Most of these pages have yet more links.)
The Large Hadron Collider (at CERN):
LHC homepage (a little intimidating)
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html
http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/ (and blog)
http://www.uslhc.us/ (and blogs)
CBC Quirks and Quarks on the LHC (September 6, 2008) (January 20, 2007: four from the top) (a reference in October, 1994)
NOVA scienceNOW: CERN (check out the NOVA podcasts as well)
NPR Science Friday: August 29, 2008, April 11, 2008
Exploratorium: CERN: The Heart of the Matter
CERN rap (for real. I laughed the whole way through last night.)
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html
The rather tired recent post at Backreaction.
The slightly snarky recent post at Bad Astronomy.
NOVA scienceNOW Dispatches summarizes everything you need to know in 2.7 minutes: July 6, 2007.
xkcd comics 474 and 401
And cue various references in forums to Gordan Freeman.
Fiction:
Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer (Canadian!)
Black holes:
Tons and tons of stuff.
Quirks and Quarks and Science Friday have done a few stories on black holes, because, well, everyone always asks about them.
NOVA: Monster of the Milky Way
Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars (very, very cool animations hosted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day site.)
I learned about them mostly from books (The Trouble with Physics, Death by Black Hole, Flatterland, The Elegant Universe...and of course, the classic and slightly incomprehensible A Brief History of Time), magazines, the above podcasts, and public talks.
Fiction: Positively everywhere.
Young Wizards has a sentient white hole in the very first book.
Thief of Time features a (spoilers!!) clock that exhibits behaviour similar to a black hole.
Many of us know the Eye of Harmony was a black hole harnessed by the Time Lords.
Presumably a "matter bridge" in Stargate: Atlantis's "McKay and Mrs. Miller" would involve a wormhole?