Friday, November 14, 2008

Destination Moon

India's technological leap in space technology.





Madhavan speaks about Chandrayan mission to moon

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NASA Moon landing conspiracy - MSNBC 2002

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Behind the Scenes of LHC



Geneva, 10 September 2008. The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around 27 kilometers of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a pivotal moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery. Read more....


Geneva, 5 September 2008. A report published today in the peer-reviewed journal Journal 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
  • Vacuum Bubbles
  • Magnetic Monopoles

Behind the scenes


Sunday, August 24, 2008

How does the universe work? Get ready for the answer on Sep 10, 2008

Geneva, August 11th 2008. The synchronization of the LHC's clockwise beam transfer system and the rest of CERN's accelerator chain was successfully achieved last weekend. read more .. 
Countdown to LHC First Beam 16 days more ... September 10th, 2008 
After a quarter of a century of dreaming and planning, designing and building, at last we are about to see the LHC completed.

Frank Close, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, is a former head of CERN's Communication Group. He recently visted CERN to give lectures to the summer students.


Already the excitement is gathering at the prospect of what will be discovered: possibly the Higgs Boson, or supersymmetry, or even things that no one has thought of. The world's media are already abuzz with anticipation. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. The visions of the new world will hopefully be tomorrow's stories; today, let's reflect on what has been achieved at even getting to this point and recall what it was like long ago when the dream began: in those bygone days, were you sure that the LHC would ever be?


Hadron headbanger machine chilled to ramming speed By Lewis Page

Scientists operating from a hollowed-out lair deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border have announced that their enormous, unprecedentedly powerful 27-kilometre proton cannon will shortly be ready to open fire. To be precise, "first beam" is scheduled for September 10th.
Uncharacteristically, perhaps, the boffins made their announcement via a normal press release rather than by seizing command of TV broadcasts. The traditional demand for a colossal sum of money to be paid by the world's governments on pain of cities erased hourly was also omitted - perhaps because these boffins have already received such funds in order to build their immense machine. read more...

Friday, August 22, 2008

The ultimate expirement

BBC Horizon - Six Billion dollar experiment

LHC - The ultimate experiment

Friday, August 15, 2008

Gravity and other Forces - Elegant Universe

Elegant Universe - Einstein's Relativity

String theory

Saturday, July 26, 2008

String Theory


String theory to M - Theory

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Life on Mars

Is there life on Mars?

An image of a mysterious shape on the surface of Mars, taken by Nasa spacecraft Spirit, has reignited the debate about life on the Red Planet.

A magnified version of the picture, posted on the internet, appears to some to show what resembles a human form among a crop of rocks.

While some bloggers have dismissed the image as a trick of light, others say it is evidence of an alien presence.

The image is a recent Nasa posting of the Spirit's landing in 2004.

Read more in ... BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7205004.stm