RIP Planet Earth
How would you feel if I told you that you had died at 11:20 on the morning of 5 April 2012? I suspect you wouldn’t believe me, right? And if I went on to say that not just you but … Continue reading →
WykenSeagrave
Author of books and websites explaining history of the universe in simple terms
Radiation Levels in Time Bubbles
In Episode 40 of the forthcoming 2nd edition of Time Tunnel (Volume 2 of Time Crystal), the background radiation level inside a time bubble is measured as 2.73 microSievert per hour. This requires a little explanation. Sievert is a measure of … Continue reading →
Extraordinary New Features of Cosmic Monopole Illustrated
As well as the new images gracing the pages of the Illustrated Edition of Cosmic Monopole, there are a number of exciting new features, rarely found in a work of fiction. These are a reflection of the extraordinary amount of … Continue reading →
LHC Restarts on Crystal Day 2015
Having previously recorded that the LHC re-started on Crystal Day, April 5, 2012 after the winter shut-down, I now find that it also restarted on the same date in 2015 after having been shut down for 2 years for the … Continue reading →
LHC Starts on Crystal Day
Is it merely a co-incidence or is science once again following science-fiction? Whatever it is, there is no doubt that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started running again today, after 2 years of repairs and renewals, on the very day … Continue reading →
Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Time Crystal
I have tried to make Time Crystal as factually accurate as possible, probably spending far too long researching the details of CERN, Geneva and the history of the universe, but I want the reader to know that what I describe is … Continue reading →
Dors bebe dors
In Episode 15 of Cosmic Monopole (Volume 1 of Time Crystal), Marianne sings a song to Catriona as they wait for Alex Karolyi to bring the doctor down to Marianne in the underground ATLAS cavern. The melody was written by … Continue reading →
ATLAS
ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) is one of four detectors receiving high-energy particles from the LHC at CERN. The detector is shaped like a barrel lying on its side in a cavern about 100 metres below the ground near the … Continue reading →
LHC – The Large Hadron Collider
The LHC is currently the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It is the main accelerator at CERN, and consists of an underground tunnel 27-kilometres long (shown here in yellow) containing superconducting magnets, cooling systems and other infrastructure surrounding … Continue reading →
CERN
CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is an international collaboration of scientists and engineers seeking to understand the fundamental nature of matter by using the world’s largest accelerator (the Large Hadron Collider or LHC) to create beams of high-energy particles travelling … Continue reading →