Bigger, Faster, Cooler
It’s not easy to have a rational discussion of new technologies these days. Half the time the conversation may be boiled down into the question, “Where can I get it and how much will it cost?†Inevitably debate arises over whose thing is bigger. Or smaller. Or faster, more convenient to use, or just cooler.
Here is a gadget that is bigger, faster, more complicated, and infinitely cooler than nearly anything. You can’t buy it unless you have eight billion dollars and your basement can accommodate a 27-kilometer circular tunnel. It is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the humongous atom-smasher at the Cern laboratory in Geneva. The LHC was built to try and answer the question: What is the universe made of, and how did it begin?
The Biggest Gadget Ever, in Emotional Weather Report, today in the Star.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
September 14th, 2008 at 12:48
Not connected to the post, but in case you haven’t received the news flash yet, David Foster Wallace is dead – apparently he hanged himself. :(
September 18th, 2008 at 11:11
i came across the word “accelerator”when I read your twisted 6. :) I liked it so much.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:39
Science-related (but no accelerators) plugging – and you can choose not to post this – but I’m designing for the Bonifacio Art Foundation’s The Mind Museum, which would be the biggest science museum in the country. It’s going to be built in Global City, Taguig, and is scheduled to open on 2010. Website is under construction though, but just a heads-up.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:51
If there’s the slightest whiff of a creationist angle in the exhibits, you will let us know, no?
September 18th, 2008 at 13:24
Glad you asked, but nothing in the expected angle though. I overheard some discussions with an artist who wants to incorporate various Philippine creation myths (Bathala, et. al) in an exhibit – he was going for cultural relevance, I think. I don’t know what happened to that idea, but the foundation imposes strict scientific accuracy and research on us designers and I think he’d be battling some criticisms.