I read the CERN Courier to keep track on what is happening in elementary particle physics. I don't trust much other sources, except "Nature".
Tullio

---

I read the CERN Courier to keep track on what is happening in elementary particle physics. I don't trust much other sources, except "Nature".
Tullio

The CERN bulletin or CERN press office in general are also trustworthy:

http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2014/16/News%20Articles/?ln=en

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures

I've put my question on the 4 quarks particle to prof.Roberto Battiston and he answered that the 4 quark particle is a short lived state made by 2 quark-antiquark couples and that SU(3) color symmetry is not broken.
Tullio

---

Battiston is the leader of a cooperation between the Italian Space Agency and China National Space Agency which will launch a satellite CSES in 2016 to monitor seismic activities from space. So he is a very busy man and was kind enugh to answer my question in his blog.
Tullio

---

Life was so much simpler when the basic particles of matter were just electrons, protons and neutrons. I could almost understand things then.

---

Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Life was so much simpler when the basic particles of matter were just electrons, protons and neutrons. I could almost understand things then.

+1!!

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures

Sometimes basic research gives unforeseen results.Computerized axial tomography, which we all have benefited from, comes from research in radioastronomy. My daughter was working on a project to use heavy particles (hadrons) in a particle accelerator used in cancer therapy. Think of PET (positron emission tomography) scans and the like.
Tullio

---

Life was so much simpler when the basic particles of matter were just electrons, protons and neutrons. I could almost understand things then.

+1!!

And the earth was flat... Or, the Vatican made all the rules.

I don't need to understand it. I can marvel in the complexity of it and the fact that it all came into being from the chaos initiated by the Big Bang.

---

Life was so much simpler when the basic particles of matter were just electrons, protons and neutrons. I could almost understand things then.

+1!!

And the earth was flat... Or, the Vatican made all the rules.

I don't need to understand it. I can marvel in the complexity of it and the fact that it all came into being from the chaos initiated by the Big Bang.

+1!! again

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures

Latest:

The Third Collide@CERN-Geneva prize in Music and Sound awarded to two artists

The City and the Canton of Geneva have awarded the third Collide @ CERN-Geneva prize2 jointly for the first time to two artists - the guitarist Vincent Hanni3 who is a member of the band The Young Gods and the installation artist Rudy Decelière. The award was made for their detailed proposal to explore in sound how the analogue developed into the digital world at CERN, which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary.

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures

Turkey to become Associate Member State of CERN

Geneva, 12 May 2014. CERN1 Director General Rolf Heuer and Mr Taner Yildiz, Minister for Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Turkey today signed an agreement admitting Turkey to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Meclis.

Better news than that mine disaster that occured just now in Turkey:(

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures

Turkey to become Associate Member State of CERN

Geneva, 12 May 2014. CERN1 Director General Rolf Heuer and Mr Taner Yildiz, Minister for Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Turkey today signed an agreement admitting Turkey to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Meclis.

Better news than that mine disaster that occured just now in Turkey:(

+1 :(

CERN experiment sheds new light on cloud formation

CERN’s CLOUD experiment has shown that biogenic vapours emitted by trees and oxidised in the atmosphere have a significant impact on the formation of clouds, thus helping to cool the planet. These biogenic aerosols are what give forests seen from afar their characteristic blue haze. The CLOUD study shows that the oxidised biogenic vapours bind with sulphuric acid to form embryonic particles which can then grow to become the seeds on which cloud droplets can form. This result follows previous measurements from CLOUD showing that sulphuric acid alone could not form new particles in the atmosphere as had been previously assumed.

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures

CERN experiment sheds new light on cloud formation

CERN’s CLOUD experiment has shown that biogenic vapours emitted by trees and oxidised in the atmosphere have a significant impact on the formation of clouds, thus helping to cool the planet. These biogenic aerosols are what give forests seen from afar their characteristic blue haze. The CLOUD study shows that the oxidised biogenic vapours bind with sulphuric acid to form embryonic particles which can then grow to become the seeds on which cloud droplets can form. This result follows previous measurements from CLOUD showing that sulphuric acid alone could not form new particles in the atmosphere as had been previously assumed.

+1 :-)

I always think of HAARP, when it come to clouds and weather.

---

CERN experiment sheds new light on cloud formation

CERN’s CLOUD experiment has shown that biogenic vapours emitted by trees and oxidised in the atmosphere have a significant impact on the formation of clouds, thus helping to cool the planet. These biogenic aerosols are what give forests seen from afar their characteristic blue haze. The CLOUD study shows that the oxidised biogenic vapours bind with sulphuric acid to form embryonic particles which can then grow to become the seeds on which cloud droplets can form. This result follows previous measurements from CLOUD showing that sulphuric acid alone could not form new particles in the atmosphere as had been previously assumed.

For that and many other reasons, we need more forests, not less of them...

Shame the article is not an easy read for such an important piece of the climate puzzle...

Is there not some reports somewhere that the desertification of central Australia for example was greatly hastened by the demise of central forests...


Here's one small but highly public action by Greenpeace:

We're taking action to stop loggers plundering the Amazon

and more directly here in the UK:

Stop Jewson plundering the Amazon rainforest



Slash and burn-it-all trashing of our planet continues... And only a very few profit from such trashing. Everyone else and the world loses out badly...


All on our only one planet,
Martin

---

See new freedom: Mageia Linux
Take a look for yourself: Linux Format
The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3)

I wrote a bit about trees in the climate change acceptance thread

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=74441&postid=1504555

(actually I've made a few, that's just one :) got into my stride about where you'll find this landmark...

:))

Cloud producing forests have long been known as such by local people (in the Amazon and Equatorial Africa) just through the power of observation.

I sincerely hope CERN's findings push the science of the chemistry involved much further into the public eye though, because sulphuric acid is but a tip of the iceberg.

On climateprediction.net I am running a task modeling New Zealand and Australia weather as modified by climate change. It is a long task, with an extended deadline.
Tullio

---

On climateprediction.net I am running a task modeling New Zealand and Australia weather as modified by climate change. It is a long task, with an extended deadline.
Tullio

Hi Tullio :) Do you get feedback on the specific tasks that you run? I unfortunately couldn't get my system to run any so had to detach from the project, but hope to one day :)

On climateprediction.net I am running a task modeling New Zealand and Australia weather as modified by climate change. It is a long task, with an extended deadline.
Tullio

Hi Tullio :) Do you get feedback on the specific tasks that you run? I unfortunately couldn't get my system to run any so had to detach from the project, but hope to one day :)

No, not much. Moderators talk to the developers, who are Oxford University people, and these don't read our posts, so we have no direct interaction with the developers. Only if a PC gives constantly bad results it is blacklisted and its owner gets a PM explaining why.
Tullio

---

On climateprediction.net I am running a task modeling New Zealand and Australia weather as modified by climate change. It is a long task, with an extended deadline.
Tullio

Hi Tullio :) Do you get feedback on the specific tasks that you run? I unfortunately couldn't get my system to run any so had to detach from the project, but hope to one day :)

No, not much. Moderators talk to the developers, who are Oxford University people, and these don't read our posts, so we have no direct interaction with the developers. Only if a PC gives constantly bad results it is blacklisted and its owner gets a PM explaining why.
Tullio

May I take this opportunity to apologise for Oxford University :) Sounds like more interaction than cosmology@home - but not a lot more. :/