For those who maybe interested:
SCHOOL OF PHYSICS
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/about...ws_item1.shtml
TOMORROW! - Wednesday 10th September at 7pm
Venue: Footbridge Theatre, University of Sydney
Title: Build your own Big Bang: CERN's Large Hadron
Collider turns on*
Presenter: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Dr Kevin Varvell
RSVP: 9351 3472 or
outreach@physics.usyd.edu.au
At 5.30 pm AEST next Wednesday 10th September, scientists will hit the
big green button on the world's largest experiment, the Large Hadron
Collider at CERN. The huge energies given to tiny particles in this
experiment will take us closer to the Big Bang than we have ever been
before and propel us towards answering questions of Life, The Universe
and Everything.
One of the thousands of scientists holding his breath is Dr Kevin
Varvell from the School of Physics University of Sydney. "At last we can
test some of our ideas about what we are made of!" he says. Some ideas
are very solid, some such as mini-black holes less so.
At a public talk next Wednesday evening Dr Kevin and Dr Karl
Kruszelnicki will be giving the low down on the Large Hadron Collider,
colder than deep space, and buried 100 m in the ground in a tunnel 27 km
long under the French-Swiss border - as well as streaming live video
from CERN.
Cheers Norm
PS: I'm pretty sure its free, but those interested, maybe best to ring to confirm.