Just about now, at 14:00, CERN and probably some more institutions and people are celebrating the 20th birthday of what is known as the WorldWideWeb these days.
In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee handed in his first proposal for what was the basis of the WWW to his bosses at CERN.
The whole story can be found here and the original proposal is linked here.
Happy Birthday!
And thanks Mr. Berners-Lee.
You can get a glimpse of the larges experiment ever build by mankind in the new Angels & Demons trailer … watch out for the 42nd second! (42 you understand!?)
Finally the ATLAS book is out … with amazing 2604 authors on the list and about 1900 pages its quite a monstrous publication, but hey its also the larges experiment ever build by mankind ;)
Anyway … I myself took part in the sections on triggering (selecting) events containing top quarks.
In case you feel like having a look arXiv is your friend: arXiv:0901.0512
Walking through CERN these days is extremely weired … there is hardly anyone left!
The LHC being on hold and now even the detectors being switched off more or less completely there is not much to do for many of us … even though I really can use some quiet-time to fetch up with things and to prepare my departure *sadness and happyness though*.
On Friday 5:30 pm CERN will be closed for holidays and the heating as well as a large fraction of the computers and hardware will be shut down until beginning of January …
After all the silence about the current status of the LHC, finally the management itself made some pictures of the incident public (even though it seem to have been by accident and has now been protected).
In a talk by the Director General himself [link] (now protected) some pictures indicate the damage caused by the incident on September 19th.
