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Left ball: the event display of a proton-proton collision producing the "God particle" (Higgs boson), observed in its very rare decay into a pair of muons by the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This recent result is the first evidence of the Higgs boson interacting directly with muon particles, an important new step in the understanding of how the very different masses of all elementary particles (and, therefore, the mass of our world) are generated.
Right ball: the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) detector.
cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/public...
The CMS Experiment at CERN:
more than 5000 scientists, engineers and technicians
from 241 institutes and 55 countries, collaborating to uncover the deepest secrets of Nature.
[Cover image of the official CMS Christmas greetings card]
Just before dawn, with the Milky Way arching over the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
Four 8m diameter telescopes which toghether make the largest telescope in the world.
10 Frame pano stiched with Lightroom CC.
This is inspired from the movie Weird Science, definitely an 80's classic that I was addicted to watching!
This is my submission for this month's #AdamsPhotoChallenge.
Take part yourself, the theme is TV & Film. Full details can be found here: flic.kr/p/2j7TZTB
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NEMO Science Museum
The green Nemo building
NEMO Science Museum (from latin Nobody) is a science center in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is located in the Oosterdokseiland neighborhood in the Amsterdam-Centrum borough, situated between the Oosterdokseiland and the Kattenburg. The museum has its origins in 1923, and is housed in a building designed by Renzo Piano since 1997. It contains five floors of hands-on science exhibitions and is the largest science center in the Netherlands.
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For Looking Close...on Friday!'s #letters theme
Where would be without these letters? They define everything around us!
The periodic table: taken from "The Secret Life of the Periodic Table". Bought to try to stimulate my sons' interest in science...unfortunately, no visible obvious results as yet. But there's still time...
So, the season premiere of the Flash Season 3 sucked, but episode two gives me a bit more hope that this will be different from Arrow Season 3. But, we can only hope.
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What did you guys think of the two recent episodes?
Valencia is a bilingual city: Valencian and Spanish are the two official languages. Spanish is official in all of Spain, whereas Valencian is official in the Valencian Community. Despite distinct dialectal traits and political tension between Catalonia and Valencia, Catalan and Valencian are mutually intelligible and considered two varieties of the same language by the linguistic academies and governments of both regions, just under different names.
Berkeley High School
Streamline Moderne style designed by architects Henry H. Gutterson and William G. Corlett.
Many Thanks Edinei Montingelli for the Group and Thank You Amber Wild for picking my picture out as Cover for the "SCIENCE FICTION and DIGITAL ART" Group
Here is the picture :
"So Lonesome I Could Cry" by ♦Sygall♦
“Science deals with the world which it perceives but, seeking more and more to penetrate the veil of naïve perception, progresses only towards the goal of nothing, because it still does not accept in practice (whatever it may admit theoretically) that the mind first creates what it perceives as objects, including the instruments which Science uses for that very penetration. It insists on dealing with ‘data,’ but there shall no data be given, save the bare percept. The rest is imagination. Only by imagination therefore can the world be known. And what is needed is, not only that larger and larger telescopes and more and more sensitive calipers should be constructed, but that the human mind should become increasingly aware of its own creative activity.”
-Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction (28):
The intricate patterns and lines inside a Grand Piano. Probably not arranged this way by coincidence.
For Macro Mondays - Scientific
A micro version of the ship I was intending to build for SHIPtember. This was a fun little build. It's a little too white, it's hard to see the structure well when it's all white.
Fantastic space age design building in Bristol, see link below:-
www.sheppardrobson.com/architecture/view/life-sciences-bu...
Taking a break from the snow pictures for a while ("a while" in this case probably defined as 24 hours), and encouraged by the -20F temperatures, I decided to try a scientific experiment. Most of us know the effect of garlic on vampires, right? And many of us frequently tie cloves of this aromatic allium around our windows. I always wear a necklace of fresh garlic to repel these creatures as well as to attract the local beauties. (It seems less effective in achieving the later, but that's a different experiment with different variables.) But how many know the results of vampires on garlic? Not many, thought I. Everyone knows that the vampires run (or fly) away, shielding themselves with their capes from the effects, but I don't recall one instance of anyone checking to see how the garlic made out after these confrontations. Poor follow-up, it seems to me. So knowing vampires to be in the vicinity, I placed a clove on a plate to see what would ensue. Remarkably, as you can see, not only did vampiric symbols suddenly appear on the plate in the form of black eyes and long pointed teeth but the garlic sprouted as if given new life.
"Hmmm," said I, in empirical fashion, "I wonder if this means that this particular clove of garlic will have eternal life? And is it possible that the existence of garlic is only due to the presence of vampires? Do I need to do a representative sampling of garlic cloves asking how old they are and hope they don't lie? And if vampires, and thus garlic, disappeared, what would celebrity chefs do? Would they vanish, too?" (One can only hope...)
So many questions but, on this subject, an eternity to discover the answers. In the meantime, I'll be keeping my mind and eyes open for other fascinating areas of investigation and discovery providing insight and enlightenment to share with you, my loyal followers. Since garlic also repels mosquitos and mosquitos are bloodsuckers as well, I'm seriously beginning to have many questions about this bulb and its historical relationships. But all experiments of an insectivorous nature, fortunately, will need wait until summer.