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LHC’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ to speak at Athlone physics conference
Irish physicist Professor Steve Myers, also dubbed ‘Lord of The Rings’ in reference to his role as Head of Accelerators at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will speak at the Institute of Physics in Ireland’s (IOP) annual conference in Athlone this Saturday, 27 March 2010. Having just set a new word record in particle acceleration [...]
The law and the Large Hadron Collider: who should have jurisdiction?
In February’s issue of Physics World… After court cases seeking to halt the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were thrown out of Swiss and Hawaiian law courts, one US lawyer is arguing that it and other hypothetically destructive experiments should not expect to be beyond the rule of law. In February’s Physics World, journalist Edwin Cartlidge [...]
Today’s physics news: Thursday, 19 November
LHC beams getting ready to whizz It seems that beams will start whizzing tomorrow evening, Friday 19 November, around the 27 kilometre tunnel. Guardian BBC ESA approves mission to Mercury A 970 million Euro probe, BepiColumbo, has been approved by the European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee, due to launch in 2014. The European Orbiter [...]
Today’s physics news:Tuesday, 27 October
Diplomas too difficult for pupils, says survey Diplomas are too difficult for thousands of teenagers they were designed for, a survey of more than 130 sixth form and further education colleges has found. The Guardian The Telegraph Civil engineers call for greater speed in UK carbon capture drive A report from the Institution of Civil [...]
Today’s physics news: Wednesday, 16 June