Of all of the videos I’ve seen of people visiting the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), this one is the funniest by very far… yes… it’s John Oliver again:
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The probability discussion is just priceless…
…and John Ellis was really great!
-cvj
(It has an air date of April 30th 2009…. but it feels like it was made last year around this time when the black hole lawsuit was in the press…Was it a repeat? no?)
*Thanks LC!
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- Once More, With Feeling?
- Particle Physics on TV Tonight
- Physics Can Change the World!
- Smashing...
- LHC Report
- Lyn Evans on the LHC repairs
- Yvette on LHC Poetry
- Brian on the LHC
- Tales From The Industry XXII - Live LHC Chats
- It Works!!!
- LHC Song Growing in Listenership
- Beaming With Anticipation
- Inside CDF!
- Pauli's Other Principle
- Inside the LHC!
- Phil at LHC
- So What Are the Odds?
- Frank Common Sense
- Happy Higgs Hunters
- LHC Podcasts: Science Meets Science Fiction
- LHC Coverage
- Small Things Considered
- NPR goes to LHC
- Will People Please Stop Saying God Particle?
- A Promising Sign?
There’s an article at wired (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/extremelaser/) about extreme ultraviolet light and the photoelectric effect. Interesting new results, especially the revelation that
“Light has been caught kicking electrons out of atoms since the 1830s.”
Only since the 1830s??!?!?!?!
Yes, I loved this. “Either it will happen or it won’t… so that’s 50/50.” “I don’t think probability works that way.”
Yeah, I love that. It is my favourite part!
-cvj