Taken during my visit to CERN in September 2010, with sound footage of dialogue with physicsts at CERN based on questions posed by VCA students.

Ugh. People freaking out about science with no good reason to gives me a headache.

Hubblecast Episode 40: Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) – Hubble’s New Miracle Camera In early 2009, a team of astronauts visited Hubble to repair the wear and tear of twenty years of operating in a hostile environment – and to install two new instruments, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, and Wide Field Camera 3 – better known as WFC3. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) is a combined ultraviolet, visible and infrared camera that dramatically extends Hubble’s ability to image astronomical objects. With these new capabilities, Hubble is still pushing the boundaries of science after two decades in orbit. In episode 30 of the Hubblecast, we saw some of the very first pictures to come back from Wide Field Camera 3, Hubble’s newest and most advanced instrument. Today we’re going to look at some of the science behind these pictures. We’ll find out how this remarkable new camera is helping Hubble to see the invisible, look far back in time and spot objects further away from us than ever before. WFC3 was installed on Hubble in place of WFPC2, the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which for many years had been the main workhorse instrument on Hubble. Not only do the two instruments have very similar names, and look virtually identical, the capabilities of WFC3 are also in some respects just a tweaked version of those of its predecessor — although with sharper pictures and more …

Source: Realitatea TV CERN LHC First Beam 9/10/2008 – 9:00 AM And for who wants to know the name of the song it’s FatBoy Slim – right here, right now

What is a strangelet?: Strangelets are theorized cosmological objects composed of an exotic form of matter known as strange matter or quark matter. This form of matter is created in the cores of particularly massively neutron stars. In neutron stars, the remnants of collapsed stars with masses between 4 and 8 times that of our sun, pressure and temperature is so intense that the protons and electrons in atomic nuclei fuse to become neutrons. The resultant matter is sometimes referred to as neutronium, a sea of neutrons packed far more densely than conventional matter. Sometimes the pressure and gravity in the centres of neutron stars is so massive that the neutronium collapses into its constituent particles, quarks. This results in agglomerations of so-called strange quarks bound to each other directly much in the same manner that the transition from conventional star to neutron star results in seas of neutrons bound directly together. The names physicists have given this type of matter are “quark matter” or “strange matter”. This may be regarded as a phase change, like changing from a liquid to a solid, only at densities many orders of magnitude greater than those occuring in this solar system. It has been hypothesized that strangelets (sub-stellar agglomerations of strange matter) may be able to exist independently from the quark stars which created them. If so, there may be many strangelets in this universe, a possible explanation for the dark matter problem. Since …

The entire Universe is made up of particles. But where do they come from? What is the origin of the laws of nature? The permanent exhibition “Universe of Particles”, installed on the ground floor of the Globe of Science and Innovation, invites you to discover CERN by taking you on a journey all the way back to the Big Bang. It will help you answer questions such as: What’s the purpose of this research? How do you accelerate particles? How do you detect them? What are today’s theories on matter and the Universe? How does this affect our daily life? cdsweb.cern.ch

A science rap about the world revealed through science and technology. It starts in outer space with the birth of the universe, then comes down to Earth before describing some things we have learnt about ourselves. The rap was produced in collaboration with Alison Somerville at the Science Photo Library (SPL) who produced the video. SPL are a provider of scientific images and have a special schools subscription service – www.sciencephoto.com This video can be viewed in HD, and can also be found on the SPL website. If you like science raps and want to see more, check out www.scienceraps.co.uk. Just click the video tab to view a selection of science raps from across the world. If you know of anymore good examples, please let us know. Video Courtesy of YouTube User- www.youtube.com Size Of The Universe- www.youtube.com The Known Universe HD- www.youtube.com Hubble’s Eye on the Universe HD- www.youtube.com The Secret – Planet Earth HD- www.youtube.com

www.theworldchannel1.com A Moment in Science with Noah Finkelstein a physics professor at the University of CU in Boulder. Some things he talks about are the Science Discovery program, The Large Hadron Collector at CERN and recreating the early foundations of the universe.

“Universe of Particles”, an immersive interactive journey into the heart of matter. CERN’s new permanent exhibition is located in the iconic Globe of Science and Innovation building on the Meyrin site.

CERN News: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sets collision record – new era in the history of particle physics. Spotlight on CERN – LHC First Physics — On March 30th 2010, first high-energy collisions took place at 7 TeV in the LHC, creating a phenomenal quantity of data. This not only marked the start of a new era for particle physics but also presents an enormous challenge in the field of computing, in terms of data transfer, storage and processing. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, a synchrotron intended to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at an energy of 7 trillion electronvolts (1.12 microjoules) per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV (92.0 µJ) per nucleus. The term hadron refers to particles composed of quarks. It is expected that it will address the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing our understanding of the deepest laws of nature. The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by …