The most complicated machine man ever built

The world's most powerful particle accelerator..

If you happen to watch the movie Angels and Demons by Tom Hanks (have seen it in SM
San Lazaro weeks ago) , you will probably will have an idea what this machine is capable of.
Well in the movie it created an anti matter in such a small size. But this one is also a time machine in the making. Please read the excerpts for better understanding.


Here are some quick facts:
- 20-year work-in-progress
- A team of 7,000 physicists from more than 80 nations
- 27 kilometers in circumference, 175 meters underground
- facilitating head-on collision of protons, traveling very near the speed-of-light
- each tunnel is big enough to run a train through it.
- temperatures generated: more than 1000,000 times hotter than the sun's core
- superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space


To better appreciate the enormous scale of this beast, consider that it runs 17 miles across the border of two countries, has detectors in four locations the size of buildings, housed in huge caverns - and if you happen to be inside the tunnel while this thing is in operation, you would have a highly radioactive - and fatal - experience.



Just one superconducting solenoid (CMS) contains in it more iron than the Eiffel Tower. The cost of building LHC is so high, that America had to put a stop to its own Superconducting Super Collider in 1993 (even though 14 miles of tunnel had already been dug in Texas), so today CERN's structure is the lone contender for the title "the most complicated thing that humans have ever built".

As the world's most powerful particle accelerator becomes functional this spring - unleashing forces, capable of distorting not only space (just like gravity distorts space around Earth), but also TIME.

Two proton beams travel in opposite directions and collide at four points along the way - replicating the Big Bang conditions of "cosmic plasma", a mysterious almost liquid state, which occurred before quarks had cooled off enough to allow atoms to form together. The Large Hadron Collider will force quarks to break free of their bonds, the matter substance to unravel - to recreate the original "cosmic plasma", and to reconstruct Big Bang conditions.

According to the research published by Irina Arefieva and Igor Volovich, "in general relativity, a time-like curve in space-time will run from past to future. But in some space-times the curves can intersect themselves, giving a closed-like curve, which is interpreted as a time machine - which suggests the possibility of time travel".

Principles of Tenacity

PRINCIPLES FOR TENACITY

By: Francis Kong

Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven. Beethoven’s music teacher said, “As a composer he’s hopeless.” The great inventor Thomas Edison did not do well in school either. His teachers thought he was stupid. F. W. Woolworth couldn’t get a job. Merchants said he didn’t have enough sense to wait on customers. A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because the editor said Disney didn’t have any good ideas. “You can’t sing. You have no voice at all,” said the voice coach to Enrico Caruso. An editor told Louisa May Alcott she was not capable of writing anything that would appeal to a popular audience. And some well meaning relatives of my wife told her years ago that she has chosen a loser for a husband. I would like to think that they were all wrong. Rather than carrying a grudge against them I took upon me to nurture the drive to prove them wrong. And this takes a lot of tenacity.

In yesterday’s column I talked about how success is never handed to the successful and so today I would like to talk about tenacity.

What is tenacity? My portable built in thesaurus that comes with my favorite word processor Microsoft Word 2007 (is there any other anyway?) version says: tenacity is stubbornness, obstinacy, resolve, firmness, persistence, insistence, doggedness, drive, determination and steadfastness. (Try it yourself, this is the order in which it comes.)

So how do you have this? Let me suggest a few ideas:

1. FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED

How are you going along with your New Year’s Resolution anyway? Most people are worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year but what they fail to realize is they need to be concerned with what they eat between the New Year till the next Christmas. Success requires discipline. You start with a good idea and you stick to it. And you need to outlast others in doing so. William Feather says: “”Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”

2. DO NOT BE DISHEARTENED

Listen to the stories of successful people. They had their ups and downs and their downs usually outnumber their ups. The thing is they never quit. There are many people who start on their dreams but they never finish. Then those who stop resent those who make it. And if you get disheartened, tell yourself, “just a little bit more….just a little bit more……” You need to hold on at the end and as Franklin Roosevelt says: “”When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

3. BE FAITHFUL WITH THE LITTLE THINGS.
Be careful with the details. If you are faithful with the little things then you will earn the right to handle the big things. And if you are unfaithful in the small things, even the little things that you have will be taken away from you. It’s just the way it is. What causes obesity? One piece of fries at a time. What causes failure? A few wrong decisions and erroneous judgment accumulated over time. What causes poor health? A refusal to put on those gym shoes and hit the treadmill. What causes poverty? A little folding of the hands, a little slumber and poverty overtakes the poor fellow. You need to hold on to holding on. You need to work on tenacious!

Motivational speaker Chris Widener says this and I fully agree: “Instead of looking at pressure and trials as the reason to quit, get tenacious and see them as the very thing that will make your life the beautiful thing that you desire it to be. See it as your opportunity to learn, to grow, and to be transformed. See these trials as the very things that will enable you to have the life that dream of! Trials will surely come. Life will get hard. You will want to quit. Then you will have a choice: Will you give up? Or will you take your turn at tenacious. The choice you make will determine much of the rest of your life. My advice? Take your turn at tenacious. You will become stronger, and you will end up living the life you dream of!”

Want a bit of inspiration? Just think of the snail who finally made it to the ark!

Never ending hayden kho scandal issues

Still in the news today and talk of the town pa rin was the hayden scandal issue. It started with a video leaked in the internet by a website i presumed that started it all, fleshasiadaily.com, known for its celebrity and obscene unregulated story.It come no surprise this site traffic soar as the most talk about video started to leak.
Out of curiousity everybody wants to watch the videos and as expected everybody have seen all the videos except for this Hayden Kho- Ruffa Mae Quinto se-x video. I could still remember how Ruffa Mae cried on tv when her name was dragged into the Hayden-Katrina issue. Ruffa Mae categorically denied any relationship with hayden much more a video scandal. But in the same vein Hayden and Katrina denied any se-x video but look, a different story came up. We may say they lied but who would admit having a s-ex video anyway, especially if you are a celebrity.

The scandal has been so hard hitting that even the senate seems to be interested in the video. Okay, maybe not the senate. Maybe it's just Ramon Revillia Jr. who is ironically rumored to have his own sex video with Ruffa Mae Quinto.

We're not paying senators everything we workers earn during Mondays just to let these ??? watch and discuss porn on valuable office hours time.

That's almost 6,400 active nodes working to spread the videos on torrent alone. This does not include people who still get their supplies from DVDs sold on the sidewalk, on USB sticks from friends, and for the really oldschool people, floppy disks.

For as long as there is one stranger online willing to share his stash of porn to another guy he barely even knows, fraternity among men will never disappear.

Hope will get some results out of these circus and a happy ending not like the past contrversies, scandals and stories we have seen in the fast.

So much for this....

Manny Pacquiao ko`s Ricky Hatton

As expected, our very own Manny Pacquiao ko`s Ricky Hatton in 2nd round. Pacquiao made history tonight, winning his fourth lineal title in four divisions, this one junior welterweight. No one has ever done that, ever.As predicted by Coach Freddie Roach that the bout will be over in 3 rounds, it was 1 round earlier as expected. Ricky Hatton style didn`t change, still none moving head, open and defenceless upper part. Manny take advantage of this and use his deadly left hook leaving Hatton lying in the floor disoriented. Let`s celebrate for this and the only men that was sad for this victory of our very own was Dela Hoya and Bob Arum. Why? Because their expected "Boxing Trilogy" which will bring more bucks were gone forever..hehehe..The only fight left that will bring more money i think will be Mayweather-Pacquiao..Mabuhay ka Manny.

I`m Proud to be Filipino.

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