CERN reiterates safety of LHC on eve of first beam

Geneva, 5 September 2008. A report published today in the peer reviewedJournal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics provides comprehensive evidence that safety fears about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are unfounded. The LHC is CERN’s new flagship research facility. As the world’s highest energy particle accelerator, it is poised to provide new insights into the mysteries of our universe.

Read more about the following

• Cosmic Rays
• Microscopic Black holes
• Strangelets
• Vaccum Bubbles
• Magnetic Monopoles

Read more in my blog .. Particle and Astro Physics 

Found Dark Matter

Dark Matter which makes up 25% of the Universe finally detected. Dark matter eluded scientists for years as it doesn’t emit or reflect light. Scientists found proof of dark matter in the galaxy cluster 1E0657-556. The evidence provided by a cosmic collision between two huge clusters of galaxies. As per Maxim Markevitch of the Harvard Smithsonian Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the “most energetic cosmic show, besides the Big Bang” that we are aware of.

To find out more about this, read more in my blog Particle Physics / Found Dark Matter

Consciousness and Mathematics

What makes us different from other species (birds, animals, insects, fish etc)?

Is it the look and feel or the intelligence or the ability to adapt the environment to suite our needs rather than adapting to the environment?

The answer lies in one single word.

To find out more about this, read more in my blog The Conscious Mind / Consciousness and Mathematics

Land of Straight Lines and Beginning of Time

The Land of Straight lines.

There is a strange planet called straightnet somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy. So, what is so strange or special about it? The land (planet) is build upon objects with straight lines. Which means the planet is a big rectangular land. They play the soccer with a cubes and rugby with rectangular boxes instead of a spherical objects, their body, trees, roads, animals everything is build using straight lines.

Now, try to ask straight-lander’s the following questions.

1. How do you explain to them about something in spherical shape (soccer ball, volley ball etc)?
2. Can they think about an object which does not have edges?
3. How do you tell them there is a specific shape where you can’t specify the center of the object (on the surface)?

To find out more about this, read more in my blog The Conscious Mind / Land of Straight lines and Beginning of Time

Physics 2005 - Celebrating 100 years

Year 2005, celebrating the 100 years of Einstein’s miraculous year 1905. 100 years ago in the month of September 1905 Einstein gave the final equation to the world – The most famous equation E = mc².

Here are the two complimentary lectures by Prof Richard Wolfson Ph.D, Middlebury College on Albert Einstein's miraculous year 1905 (presented by the Teaching Company).

To find out more about this, read more in my blog Particle Physics / Physics 2005 – Celebrating 100 years

How deep is the rabbit hole?

Consider the following experiment

Imagine your brain is hooked for a neural scan. An object is shown to you and the neural behavior is recorded. Then you are asked to remember the same object and the doctors recorded the neural behavior again.

Now the most interesting case over here is, neural behaviors were same when you saw the object (using your eyes) and when you remembered the object (neural behavior will be same even if you remember it in your dreams).

So, what is the role of eyes then? Why is the neural behavior same when the input came from two different sources?

To find out more about this, read more in my blog The Conscious Mind / How deep is the rabbit hole?

on God, Heaven & Hell

On God, Creation & Science

- I do not believe in the current concept of God and Creation.

The theory of Big Bang was a big leap in understanding the origin of the universe. However, like the concept of God Created this universe, Big Bang theory produced another big question, what happened before Big Bang? One of the reason I liked the cyclic model instead of Big Bang in the standard model is the infinite big bang by the collision of two membranes (a scientific hypothesis now). This does not mean that the standard model is wrong. New hypothetical cyclic model is an extension of standard model. Extra dimensions and colliding universes are the by by-product of String theory which is gaining momentum in unifying the theory of relativity and quantum theory. I like to know internals on how and why rather than believe anything just by ‘faith’.

- I do not believe that science and religion are on warpath (I mean does not have conflicts of interest).

To find out more about this, read more in my blog The Conscious Mind / On God, Heaven and Hell