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Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1622342 - Posted: 2 Jan 2015, 12:40:09 UTC Islamic Republic of Pakistan to become Associate Member State of CERN Geneva 19 December 2014. CERN Director General, Rolf Heuer, and the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Ansar Parvez, signed today in Islamabad, in presence of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, a document admitting the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by the Government of Pakistan. â€œPakistan has been a strong participant in CERNâ€™s endeavours in science and technology since the 1990s,â€ said Rolf Heuer. â€œBringing nations together in a peaceful quest for knowledge and education is one of the most important missions of CERN. Welcoming Pakistan as a new Associate Member State is therefore for our Organization a very significant event and I'm looking forward to enhanced cooperation with Pakistan in the near future.â€ rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1622342 ·

tullio Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1	Message 1622737 - Posted: 3 Jan 2015, 10:18:13 UTC I have known one Pakistani scientist, Abdus Salam, Nobel prize winner. Now the International Center for Theoretical Physics, founded by him in Miramare, near Trieste, bears his name. I've read in the December issue of Cern Courier that the ICTP. now directed by a Mexican scientist, will expand its mission to Third World countries, as proposed by Salam. Tullio ID: 1622737 ·

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1624095 - Posted: 6 Jan 2015, 0:10:23 UTC - in response to Message 1622737. I hope they find dark matter. Australian scientists helping to unlock mysteries of the universe at CERN Physicist Amelia Brennan knows more than most about the stuff that holds the universe together. She recently returned to Melbourne after a stint at CERN â€“ the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva - where the sub-atomic Higgs boson or "God particle" was discovered in 2013. Despite the discovery, hailed as a major scientific breakthrough, Ms Brennan said she and her CERN colleagues could still only account for 25 per cent of the matter in the universe. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-05/australian-scientists-help-unlock-universe-mysteries-cern/6001086 ID: 1624095 ·

tullio Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1	Message 1624130 - Posted: 6 Jan 2015, 1:40:44 UTC I wish people would start referring to the Higgs Boson asa "God's particle". That was a publisher's idea for a fast selling book by Leo Lederman. He had wanted to call it the "Goddam particle", because it was so difficult to find it. Tullio ID: 1624130 ·

Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3	Message 1624131 - Posted: 6 Jan 2015, 1:50:04 UTC - in response to Message 1624095. Thank's Lynn i was wondering if we had any boffins over there checking things out or part of the team ID: 1624131 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1625088 - Posted: 7 Jan 2015, 20:28:28 UTC Interesting... http://www.space.com/28181-gravity-higgs-boson-universe-destruction.html?adbid=10152572435491466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465&cmpid=514630_20150107_38407027 rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1625088 ·

tullio Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1	Message 1625364 - Posted: 8 Jan 2015, 10:55:37 UTC Last modified: 8 Jan 2015, 10:56:09 UTC One thing I've learned from my CERN friends is that the Higgs field (and not the boson) gives mass only to weakly interacting particles, like the W and Z intermediate vector bosons, and not to strong interacting particles like quarks, whose mass is due mostly to the nuclear strong interaction. Of course the Higgs field also gives mass to the Higgs boson. Tullio ID: 1625364 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1627032 - Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 8:31:07 UTC - in response to Message 1460257. Stephen Hawking: physics would be 'more interesting' if Higgs boson hadn't been found Don't quite agree with Mr. Hawking here... I stand corrected!! I agree with Dr. Hawking! rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1627032 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1627034 - Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 8:37:58 UTC - in response to Message 1460327. Maybe it's for the best some things can only be explained by math. I don't know if humans are ready for the big picture anyway. We couldn't cope with it. That's maybe what Dr. Hawking means by saying fyzix would be more interesting if we don't discover certain things, e.g like the Higgs Boson. I could be wrong though. +1 rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1627034 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1627037 - Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 8:45:46 UTC - in response to Message 1447264. One thing that i have learned from my taking part in the Test4Theory@home BOINC project is that the Higgs field does not give mass to all particles but only to leptons. The mass of fundamental particles such as neutron and proton, which build up ordinary matter, are given mostly by the strong interaction. This point is largely ignored in press articles. Tullio +1 rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1627037 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1627043 - Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 9:04:21 UTC - in response to Message 1460628. The task is left to future generations Humans do get smarter and smarter but I somehow doubt if we will ever get the big picture. Oh, I dunno. The human race has only been asking these questions in a serious, scientific way for a hundred years or so. The various religions and philosophies have been at it for thousands of years with disappointing results. Compared to that, science has only just begun. Answers to the big questions will likely not happen in our lifetime but at least give serious science a couple thousand years to work on it before saying never. Agreed here Sam, wherever you are now... rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1627043 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1627044 - Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 9:06:57 UTC - in response to Message 1475717. We should just be careful with nature, attacking it with our bigger and better. No problem if we do that with technology, that's evolution. But here we stir in the gist of everything that exists, it has an equilibrium that we're not ready to explore yet and certainly not to experiment with it. We are at the childhood of our existence, we should act like it as well and give it time. +100 rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1627044 ·

tullio Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1	Message 1627058 - Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 9:47:58 UTC Last modified: 13 Jan 2015, 9:55:48 UTC I shall be taking an online course on the Higgs boson starting on January 26. It is a free course from Edinburgh University and Peter Higgs himself is taking part in it. Tullio See www.futurelearn.com/courses ID: 1627058 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1627107 - Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 12:18:41 UTC - in response to Message 1627058. I shall be taking an online course on the Higgs boson starting on January 26. It is a free course from Edinburgh University and Peter Higgs himself is taking part in it. Tullio See www.futurelearn.com/courses Thanx Tullio, I'll look into it:) rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1627107 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1634018 - Posted: 28 Jan 2015, 11:23:45 UTC REAL time updates! http://newsblogged.com/cern-latest-news-real-time-updates rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1634018 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1637720 - Posted: 5 Feb 2015, 12:25:34 UTC Hm, still no official updates... rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1637720 ·

tullio Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1	Message 1638069 - Posted: 6 Feb 2015, 7:02:21 UTC Read CERN Courier of January/February. There are articles about two outstanding Italian scientists, Tullio Regge, whom I personally knew, and Emilio Picasso, the father of LEP. Tullio ID: 1638069 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1638099 - Posted: 6 Feb 2015, 9:14:15 UTC - in response to Message 1638069. Read CERN Courier of January/February. There are articles about two outstanding Italian scientists, Tullio Regge, whom I personally knew, and Emilio Picasso, the father of LEP. Tullio Thx Tullio, will do. rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1638099 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1639669 - Posted: 10 Feb 2015, 7:59:46 UTC :'( http://yournewswire.com/cern-to-attempt-big-bang-in-march-stephen-hawking-issues-warning/ rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1639669 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1639676 - Posted: 10 Feb 2015, 8:35:06 UTC The 'official' updates: http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1639676 ·

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