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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Large hadron coliider rap

We suppose that by this period of the holidays you will have run out of activites to do, and are most probably frantically trying to find things to do and prolong the holidays. Well, here's a little something interesting to keep you busy and take away 5 more mins of your holiday. (Oh no!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM



Twenty-seven kilometers of tunnel under ground
Designed with mind to send protons around
A circle that crosses through Switzerland & France
Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance
Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride
‘Til in the hearts of the detectors, they’re made to collide
And all that energy packed in such a tiny bit of room
Becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum
And then …

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS & ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons & the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.

We see asteroids & planets, stars galore
We know a black hole resides at each galaxy’s core
But even all that matter cannot explain
What holds all these stars together – something else remains
This dark matter interacts only through gravity
And how do you catch a particle there’s no way to see
Take it back to the conservation of energy
And the particles appear, clear as can be

You see particles flying, in jets they spray
But you notice there ain’t nothin’, goin’ the other way
You say, “My law has just been violated – it don’t make sense!
There’s gotta be another particle to make this balance.”
And it might be dark matter, & for first
Time we catch a glimpse of what must fill most of the known ‘Verse.
Because…

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.

Antimatter is sort of like matter’s evil twin
Because except for charge & handedness of spin
They’re the same for a particle and its anti-self
But you can’t store an antiparticle on any shelf
Cuz when it meets its normal twin, they both annihilate
Matter turns to energy & then it dissipates

When matter is created from energy
Which is exactly what they’ll do in the LHC
You get matter and antimatter in equal parts
And they try to take that back to when the universe starts
The Big Bang – back when the matter all exploded
But the amount of antimatter was somehow eroded
Because when we look around we see that matter abounds
But antimatter’s nowhere to be found.
That’s why…

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons & the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.

The Higgs Boson – that’s the one that everybody talks about.
And it’s the one sure thing that this machine will sort out
If the Higgs exists, they ought to see it right away
And if it doesn’t, then the scientists will finally say
“There is no Higgs! We need new physics to account for why
Things have mass. Something in our Standard Model went awry.”

But the Higgs – I still haven’t said just what it does
They suppose that particles have mass because
There is this Higgs field that extends through all space
And some particles slow down while other particles race
Straight through like the photon – it has no mass
But something heavy like the top quark, it’s draggin’ its ***
And the Higgs is a boson that carries a force
And makes particles take orders from the field that is its source.
They’ll detect it….

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS & ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.

Now some of you may think that gravity is strong
Cuz when you fall off your bicycle it don’t take long
Until you hit the earth, and you say, “Dang, that hurt!”
But if you think that force is powerful, you’re wrong.
You see, gravity – it’s weaker than Weak
And the reason why is something many scientists seek
They think about dimensions – we just live in three
But maybe there are some others that are too small to see
It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends
Which makes it seem weaker, here on our end.
And these dimensions are “rolled up” – curled so tight
That they don’t affect you in your day to day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton
You could enter these dimensions & go wandering on
And they’d find you…

When LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons & the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.

Lecture delivered at 1:32 PM by jessXW


Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Reasons You Should Love Your Laptop

ok, now all uni students have laptops right? and why should you love it to bits and bits and pieces? well, here's why!


1) For those without MP3 players, it is a very much portable MP3 player! And it also doubles up as an MP4 player as well, with and EXTRA BIG screen! Really, there are people who uses it as an MP3 player, I'm not kidding! (coz I'm one of those people. =P)

2) Need to book movie tickets asap to settle a sudden need for a break? Need to quickly settle an argument on whether caffeine does damage to foetuses? Now you can! A laptop allows you to go online as long as there is wifi! And with modern technology, there are so many places with wifi - Macs, Starbucks, uni campus...

3) Of course, all muggers need to study right? But notes are so heavy to lug around! They will break your arm! But with your laptop, you can carry the notes of 46564257394954393 subjects with you all the time! And it won't weigh more than >insert weight of your laptop here<! Now isn't that cool? =D

4) And of course, it is the perfect camoflouge for slacking! Need a break but you are in a study room or any other place with a lot of muggers? Afraid that the other hardworking muggers (especially Supermuggers) will shoot you dirty looks? Well, slack away on your laptop! Play online games! Watch movies! As long as you keep your expression neutral or look like you're in deeeeeeeeeeeeeep thought, no one will suspect anything. =D

5) For the vain muggers, you will never be in need of carrying an extra mirror with you! as long as you have your laptop, you cam blank out the screen and ta-dah! Instant mirror!

6) Nowadays, it rains all the time and the lights may or may not be on, depending on where you are the authorities who control the lights over your head. So dark! How to read you textbook or your notes?! It's ok! Because your laptop is there! Just adjust the brightness of your screen to maximum and use your laptop as a lamp! It's great! And it works! =D

7) This is one of my favourites! IT IS A DRINK AND FOOD WARMER!!! You know your adapter? It's just HOT! =D On a cold day (or in an air con area), put your cooled drink on it and ta-dah! After a while it just warms up! You can even put your water bottle on it! Or maybe a cooled waffle! And if your laptop's ventilation is not that good? Don't hate your laptop for that. You can put it next to your laptop instead. =D Simply marvelous!

8) and of course, you can declare your major and indicate your module preference any time, any where, as long as your laptop is with you. well, SOME mugalos didn't do so and had to do it during our mugalo chalet. *grumbles grumbles* thank goodness we had our laptops with us. =P

Lecture delivered at 10:33 PM by taky


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