OT - Horizon at CERN

Wildly OT for this group. Horizon on BBC2 now is on the Large Hadron
Collider. Should be good. Please turn over if you are watching the box.

An old Horizon on CERN led me to going there to get my PhD and working
on a LEP experiment (LEP is the electron/positron collider which used to
occupy the same tunnel as the LHC does now).
Here's hoping some young bright spark is enthused by this Horizon.

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John Hearns writes:
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| Wildly OT for this group. Horizon on BBC2 now is on the Large Hadron
| Collider. Should be good. Please turn over if you are watching the box.

I predict that, no matter what else the users of that discover, they
will discover that there is a breakthrough awaiting if they can just
have a tenfold bigger and better atom-smasher.

At least, that's what they discovered the past half-dozen times.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren wrote:
box.

I predict that, no matter what else the users of that discover, they
will discover that there is a breakthrough awaiting if they can just
have a tenfold bigger and better atom-smasher.
:-)

Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
John Hearns writes:
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| Wildly OT for this group. Horizon on BBC2 now is on the Large Hadron
| Collider. Should be good. Please turn over if you are watching the box.

Thanks for that, it looks a bit Sun like (as in the newspaper)
( I did not have the stupid box turned on).


I predict that, no matter what else the users of that discover, they
will discover that there is a breakthrough awaiting if they can just
have a tenfold bigger and better atom-smasher.

At least, that's what they discovered the past half-dozen times.

I agree, but they have discovered a lot of important physics.

On 01/05/2007 21:18, John Hearns said,
Wildly OT for this group. Horizon on BBC2 now is on the Large Hadron
Collider. Should be good. Please turn over if you are watching the box.

At the risk of stating the obvious, if you're watching the box you're
not likely to be reading this group, until too late :-)

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

On Tue, 01 May 2007 21:18:58 +0100, John Hearns
wrote:

Wildly OT for this group. Horizon on BBC2 now is on the Large Hadron
Collider. Should be good. Please turn over if you are watching the box.

An old Horizon on CERN led me to going there to get my PhD and working
on a LEP experiment (LEP is the electron/positron collider which used to
occupy the same tunnel as the LHC does now).
Here's hoping some young bright spark is enthused by this Horizon.

[RANT]

God, Horizon is such a load of s**t nowadays.

I gave up watching it some years back but made an exception for this
episode.

Unbelievably, it's got worse!

More out of focus pictures of irrelevancies, More time wasting.

There were a million interesting things they could have told us about
this device:

How much power does it use?
How are the particles injected?
Why are there multiple detectors?
How many different types of experiment are planned?
How many times will each experiment be performed?
How much computing power is required to make the thing work?
How much to analyse the results?

And a picture of the control room and various other parts would have
beem nice.
As would a few schematics.

Instead we get out of focus pictures and twilight zone music.

That programme has been dumbed down for the dumbest of dumb dummies!

[/RANT]

"John Hearns" wrote in message
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Wildly OT for this group. Horizon on BBC2 now is on the Large Hadron
Collider. Should be good. Please turn over if you are watching the box.

An old Horizon on CERN led me to going there to get my PhD and working on
a LEP experiment (LEP is the electron/positron collider which used to
occupy the same tunnel as the LHC does now).
Here's hoping some young bright spark is enthused by this Horizon.

Having 'watched' it I wonder what the point of the program was.
Over-reliance of irrelevant 'arty' images and tiresome head shots. We had
that Brian Cox give a talk at our local research labs last year and he gave
a brilliant talk on the standard model that has inspired my 14yo son to want
to be a particle physicist. This Horizon was completely dire.

Instead we get out of focus pictures and twilight zone music.

That programme has been dumbed down for the dumbest of dumb dummies!
Like the guy showing his pride, his pictures of himself with the us
president, his school medal etc.

His real pride is probably his list of papers in top journals.

Martin.

Ziggy wrote:

God, Horizon is such a load of s**t nowadays.

I gave up watching it some years back but made an exception for this
episode.

Unbelievably, it's got worse!

More out of focus pictures of irrelevancies, More time wasting.

Emmm... I have to agree somewhat.
Lots of shots of bubble chamber pictures.
Which were out of date even before my time.

On Tue, 01 May 2007 21:34:41 GMT, Martin Dann
wrote:


Instead we get out of focus pictures and twilight zone music.

That programme has been dumbed down for the dumbest of dumb dummies!
Like the guy showing his pride, his pictures of himself with the us
president, his school medal etc.

His real pride is probably his list of papers in top journals.

And, of course, what he's actually achieved!