[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4423975.stm]Cosmic Particle Accelerator<a>
I just found this on BBCNews.com. thought you would find it interesting. I'll do a search on it after work tonite.
Have we found something NEW in the universe?

> [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4423975.stm]Cosmic
> Particle Accelerator<a>
> I just found this on BBCNews.com. thought you would find it interesting. I'll
> do a search on it after work tonite.
> Have we found something NEW in the universe?
>

Nice one terrorhertz!

Such possibilities are just amazing. First natural masers in some neutron stars and now maybe a natural particle accelerator.

I seem to remember something in Brief History of Time that if they could build a collider as big as the solar system they could observe quarks directly.

> Such possibilities are just amazing. First natural masers in some neutron
> stars and now maybe a natural particle accelerator.
>
> I seem to remember something in Brief History of Time that if they
> could build a collider as big as the solar system they could observe quarks
> directly.
>

Heh, yea, I thought this story was was pretty amazing too. There seems to be large amounts of high-energy particles that are being accelerated, thus generating high energy particles with an energy of up to... one thousand trillion electron volts!!!

Building a collider that big Murasaki would NEED a LOT of work I'd say.

> Building a collider that big Murasaki would NEED a LOT of work I'd say.
>

You mean LHC 2, or even LHC 10^2?
Nice furure project ;)

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>You mean LHC 2, or even LHC 10^2?
>Nice furure project

Maybey the universe( instead of us) is building a collider on that scale as we speak.
could have already finished the project by now since it takes so long for light to reach us.
With so many things in the universe from the atomic scale to the astronomical scale working in elliptical rotations does it REALLY seem that odd that we would see such a thing happening?
truthfully I think nature is a better builder than man-kind any day of the week.

I look forward to all the science gathered from this. It may make our own particale accelerator redundant but I think it is too early to speak.
>You mean LHC 2, or even LHC 10^2?
I'm looking forward to those as well.

> I just found this on BBCNews.com. thought you would find it interesting. I'll
> do a search on it after work tonite.
> Have we found something NEW in the universe?

Wow, fascinating--thanks!

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> > Building a collider that big Murasaki would NEED a LOT of work I'd say.
>
> >
>
> You mean LHC 2, or even LHC 10^2?
> Nice furure project ;)
>

Funny Saenger!

> Building a collider that big Murasaki would NEED a LOT of work I'd say.

Yeah, probably have to wait until we build a Ringworld. Then we could build a large collider on the other side to protect it from the solar wind.

> > Building a collider that big Murasaki would NEED a LOT of work I'd say.
>
>
> Yeah, probably have to wait until we build a <a> href="http://www.larryniven.org/reviews/58.htm">Ringworld[/url]. Then we
> could build a large collider on the other side to protect it from the solar
> wind.
>

Hmm, a Ringworld. That's interesring, but think what would happen if the batteries went dead. I never read Ringworld, so I might enjoy doing so. I'll get it when I get Predator.

> Hmm, a Ringworld. That's interesring, but think what would happen if the
> batteries went dead. I never read Ringworld, so I might enjoy doing so.
> I'll get it when I get Predator.

Don't want to give too much away, but in a way, they did.

Just FYI, I enjoyed Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers, but not so much Ringworld Throne, so I don't know if I'm going to read the one that is supposed to be coming out soon or not.