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Message 1807407 - Posted: 5 Aug 2016, 23:39:30 UTC

I guess all the time and huge amounts of money will be worth it if they find a way to harness nuclear fusion to create cheap power for the masses or maybe counter gravity to make access to space cheaper and safer.
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Message 1807416 - Posted: 6 Aug 2016, 0:23:21 UTC - in response to Message 1807407.  

maybe counter gravity to make access to space cheaper and safer.

Bob as I understand i gravity is the "shape" of the universe, I don't think you can counter a shape.
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Message 1807506 - Posted: 6 Aug 2016, 8:22:30 UTC - in response to Message 1807407.  
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I guess all the time and huge amounts of money will be worth it if they find a way to harness nuclear fusion to create cheap power for the masses or maybe counter gravity to make access to space cheaper and safer.

ITER is an international fusion project that has spent so far 15 billion dollars. CERN is spending much less and has given good results.ITER may need another 10 billion dollars before it arrives to break-even, producing as much energy (not electricity) as it consumes. The USA Energy Department has authorized the financing of ITER for two more years, after which it will decide. The USA contribution is about 9% of the total cost. ITER is located in France.
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Message 1807515 - Posted: 6 Aug 2016, 9:40:15 UTC

CERN is not only a particle physics project, the best in the world. It develops many advanced technologies, and has produced the World Wide Web, which we all use.It also sponsors the Sesame project in Jordan, which sees Arab, Iranian, Turk and Israeli scientists cooperating. I am proud that Fabiola Gianotti, and Italian woman, now heads CERN.
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Message 1807591 - Posted: 6 Aug 2016, 18:11:47 UTC - in response to Message 1807515.  

In spite of Al Gore's claims to the contrary--I seem to recall that the internet grew out of Bitnet which I remember hooking up to our ARPA-Net Node at the University of Illinois. This was a 50 Kilo-bit/second network that used the old Bell 303-c analog modems. The first commonly used internet browsers and web crawlers were also developed at the University of Illinois.
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Message 1807602 - Posted: 6 Aug 2016, 19:14:39 UTC - in response to Message 1807591.  
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Internet was before the WWW existed, but it was limited to scientists. On August 6 1991 CERN opened the Internet to all with the World Wide Web based on the HTML language created by Tim Berners-Lee. Then came Netscape and the other GUI browsers.
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Message 1807615 - Posted: 6 Aug 2016, 20:51:54 UTC - in response to Message 1807602.  
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Tim Berners-Lee utilized the ARPANET developed by the US Army during the Cold War to make whats now is called Internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
He did a system for CERN to make all documents accessible to all personal combining APRPANET and using a hyperlink system that was also a technique already available at the time.
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Message 1808839 - Posted: 13 Aug 2016, 8:30:15 UTC
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The MoEDAL experiment at CERN, connected to the LHCb experiment (b stands for "beauty" which is a quark flavor, or even "bottom"), which was searching for magnetic monopoles, has found no hint of them.Magnetic monopoles were predicted by P.A.M Dirac but never discovered, contrarily to neutrinos.
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Message 1808852 - Posted: 13 Aug 2016, 10:06:53 UTC - in response to Message 1808839.  

My alter ego has also been collaborating with CERN over expanding the Standard Model.

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Message 1809086 - Posted: 14 Aug 2016, 15:24:15 UTC
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On the September issue of CERN Courier, which is already online, there is finally a good news: the SESAME synchrotron radiation source in Jordan is inviting research proposals both in physics and biology.So, even in the troubled Middle East, some good can be done.
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SESAME has 2 beamlines, one in infrared and one in X rays.
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Message 1810985 - Posted: 21 Aug 2016, 11:25:17 UTC

LHC pushes limits of performance

The Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) performance continued to surpass expectations, when this week it achieved 2220 proton bunches in each of its counter-rotating beams – the most it will achieve this year.
This is not the maximum the machine is capable of holding (at full intensity the beam will have nearly 2800 bunches) but it is currently limited by a technical issue in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS).
“Performance is excellent, given this limitation,” says Mike Lamont, head of the Operations team. “We’re 10% above design luminosity (which we surpassed in June), we have these really long fills (where the beam is circulating for up to 20 hours or so) and very good collision rates. 2220 bunches is just us squeezing as much in as we can, given the restrictions, to maximize delivery to the experiments.”


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Message 1811133 - Posted: 21 Aug 2016, 21:45:17 UTC

As a side comment, we at vLHC@home have simulated 3 trillion events (particle collisions) since the project started in 2010.
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Message 1816374 - Posted: 11 Sep 2016, 12:59:40 UTC
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Internaut Day and the World Wide Web

In March 1989, CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal to develop a distributed information system for the Laboratory and CERN celebrated the 25th anniversary of the birth of the web a quarter of a century after this date. By December 1990, the world's first website and server were ready to go live at CERN. At that time, the World Wide Web enabled scientists to share information across the world.


Romania's flag raised at CERN

On Monday, 5 September, the Romanian flag was raised in front of CERN for the first time, marking the country’s accession to Membership of the Organization. The blue, yellow and red flag joined those of the other 21 Member States of CERN in a ceremony attended by the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, the Romanian Minister for Education and Scientific Research, Mircea Dumitru, and several other members of the President’s office, the government and academia in Romania.


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Neutrinos take centre stage

Several new and upgraded neutrino-beam experiments planned in Japan and the US, in addition to the reactor-based JUNO experiment in China, aim to measure vital parameters such as the ordering of the neutrino masses and potential CP-violating effects in the neutrino sector. In support of this effort, CERN is mounting a significant R&D programme called the CERN Neutrino Platform to strengthen European participation in neutrino physics.


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Message 1816417 - Posted: 11 Sep 2016, 15:02:06 UTC - in response to Message 1816374.  

I still say that ARPA-Net and Bit net were up and running in the very early 70's. ARPA net at 50Kbps (6 channel analog on DS1 with Bell 303-C modems and Bit net at 134.5 and 300 bps for University researchers to keep up with one another.

We had them both at the University of Illinois prior to 1972. Computers at our three campuses and at the 10 community colleges in Illinois were all hooked up to a single mainframe by myself and my staff. The mainframe--an IBM 370-168 was also where the "Three Color Problem" was also solved by two of our Math Professors.
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Message 1816424 - Posted: 11 Sep 2016, 15:33:35 UTC

Honeywell had Datanet, IBM had SNA, Digital had Decnet but they would not talk to each other. Then came TCP/IP, Arpanet and Internet. My friend Ben Segal of CERN was nominated to the Internet Hall of Fame for introducing TCP/IP in CERN, which would have preferred the ISO/OSI stack.
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Message 1816494 - Posted: 11 Sep 2016, 20:34:32 UTC - in response to Message 1816424.  
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Yes you are right. We had all IBM hardware and Software, We ran IBM OS, RJE (Remote Job Entry) HASP (Houston Attached Support Processor) , SLACMON (Stanford Linear Accelerator Monitor), TSO (Time Sharing Option) and TSO to HASP job initiation which was written by some of our Chicago-based System Programmers.

But Tullio. Check the Wikipedia Entry for TCP/IP and you will see why I claim that DARPA was responsible for it's development.

Back in the seventies we were using stat muxes and still clung to the capitalistic notion of circuits. Only later did I come to realize that isochronous transmissions (voice and video) could be accommodated on a socialistic model of shared resources (ie TCP, IP --Ethernet). I am still surprised and amazed.
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Message 1816582 - Posted: 12 Sep 2016, 4:16:46 UTC - in response to Message 1816494.  

I know TCP/IP was developed in DARPA. But WWW is the work of Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
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Message 1817182 - Posted: 14 Sep 2016, 20:54:18 UTC - in response to Message 1816582.  

I know TCP/IP was developed in DARPA. But WWW is the work of Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
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Hyper-Text on a server
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Message 1817284 - Posted: 15 Sep 2016, 8:36:47 UTC

In 1992 I connected my BULL/MIPS RISC computer to the Gopher server at Minnesota University. It had a line of command client. no GUI. The most visited directory was "Top models" on the Pisa university server.
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