Just because it's interesting, those 362MJ of energy per beam, is enough energy to boil approximately 115 liters of water, assuming that all of the energy of the protons is used (those 7TeV per proton is including the mass of the proton, not just the kinetic energy) for the heating, and assuming that the water is…

I get slightly annoyed over the "fear" among people about the LHC. It is not a freaking doomsday device. The maximum energy, 7 TeV, sounds like a lot (because it has a "tera" in it, snap!), but it is only a lot when dealing with particles such as nucleons. Actually, 7 TeV is close to 1 microjoule, which is a really…

FUCK YOU GAWKER, I spent several minutes composing a well-structured text reflecting on the article above, where I put out my opinions on both Ericsson, Sony and Sony Ericsson as companies and their qualities when it comes to consumer products - HOWEVER right when I was about to copy the entire message before pressing…

It's funny because he looks pretty similar to Jonathan Ive.

"Where's Waldo?"

Oh, you think a display needs <5ms response time to be good, and that the human eye can even distinguish between say 6 and 2ms? How cute.

... And all the responses were from Greenpeace, saying "Stop polluting our oceans, dammit!".

People seem to forget that we're talking about neutrinos here. And the number one feature of neutrinos, apart from being aaaaaallmost massless, is that they behave fucking strangely. Come on, they oscillate between particle generations, which is almost as weird as the mesons (baryons are composed out of three quarks,…

Still looking for a small, easily concealed and affordable night vision camera which can be incorporated into for instance glasses, shirt buttons or similar things. Why? Because I wish to make a documentary on physical seances performed by "mediums". For you who do not know what this is, it is where the people who…

This is just a gut feeling of highschool optics that pops up: wouldn't this medium be more susceptable to data loss through scratching, since a scratch a voxel or series of voxels would give the incoming light a different angle of diffraction, possibly giving the outgoing light the "wrong" characteristics, leading to…

Well, the key feature about the Guy Fawkes thing is that he... Well, failed.

That. Is. AWESOME.

The Mac Pro part is not strange, really, Apple usually updates when there is new technology to put in them. The last update was to support the Gulftown i7's, and not much has happened on the high-end Intel front since then. Sure, Sandy Bridge has made quite an entrance, but even with their impressive performance…

Unless someone on the ground sees you aiming the thing at the plane, of course.

Wow, I actually had a dream about that a few nights ago, using a laser as self defense. However the location was a vulcano and the assailant was a T-rex, but that's less important.

Strange, my iPhone (4) has never dropped a call. Ever. No matter how I hold it, or where I am. The same stable reception as any other phone. So could it be that a) I'm darn lucky, b) I have a magical aura that enhances cell phone reception or c) the Apple haters actually got a small thing very much blown up to look…

Note that the hardware on those pictures is not what you get for that price. It's what you got for that price when those pictures were taken like two years ago.

It's easy to say that a stylus is useless until you actually do anything useful with your tablet. Such as taking notes in physics, chemistry or math, where it's a lot quicker to write the formulae by hand than to use formula editors. Actually, the thing that has kept me from buying a tablet for so long is that one has…

When you work on a cemetery like I do, a tool with those two functions is priceless.