RE: OT - LHC

Good analogy to this methodology is to take a watch, wrap it in a towel, smash it with a hammer, then try to figure out how it worked by looking at the pieces.

Henry --who stayed away from any area in physics where the author list was longer than the paper abstract

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Niall Litchfield
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Hadrons are a class of elementary particles. A large hadron collider is a device for smashing them together at extremely high energies and seeing what happens. It is a very expensive, and very effective, way of finding out what matter is made of.

Niall

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> Subject: RE: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING
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> If you read the full text of the article pointed to by the
> URL in the original posting, you learn that 'LHC' is 'Large
> Hadron Collider', whatever that is.
> ;-)
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> what is an LHC?
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> > CERN estimates growth about 5-10 petabytes per year when they start
> their
> > LHC in 2007...
> > Data load rates vary up to 1,5GB per second.
> >
> > I would work there even for free for some time ;)
> >
> > Tanel.
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> > > are you using a grid at stanford? how much data do they have at
> CERN?
> > > >
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> > > > http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1008211
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