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Happy 50th Cern!

Posted by samzenpus on from the quantum-birthday-cake dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The facility that has earned three scientists Nobel prizes, provided the impetus for Berners-Lee's hypertext program (aka the WWW), oh and has also helped answer some fundamental questions regarding the universe has turned fifty today! And with the LHC in development, here's hoping for another 50!"

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  1. Re:About LHC... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ooh, nice try, but "see" has more meanings than those related to visual perception.
    "see" is a synonym for "comprehend", therefore the quote is utterly valid.
    The BBC are correct

  2. Re:Another 50 years of HEP... by Chrax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Over in the sense that all that's left are questions like 'What is energy?'

    Just like the future of physics since 1894 lay in the seventh decimal place.

  3. Re:Another 50 years of HEP... by div_B · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it will never be over. the more we learn about nature, the more opportunities for speculation open up.

    No, the more we learn about nature, the closer we come to the truth, which may or may not be open ended. Asserting that it will never be over assumes more knowledge than any of us have.

    I may be wrong on that but it certainly seems that particle physics didn't really make any progress since quantum theory was accepted in .. what? .. early on in 20th century? If there's any "deeper understanding" gained since it certainly didn't make it into the wild yet...

    Given that in this day and age that popular media still represent the electrons in an atom following exact orbits in the fashion of newtonian mechanics is a pretty good indication that very little of modern physics has made it 'into the wild'.

  4. Re:It's not "Cern" by bullitB · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And Tim Berners-Lee created HTML, not the WWW (HTML is just one of the many languages used in the WWW, and it can be used outside the WWW, too)

    TBL invented both HTML and HTTP, in addition to the modern URL syntax, not to mention to the phrase "World Wide Web." Actually, what part of the WWW did he not invent?

  5. Re:It's not "Cern" by globalar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you consider the WWW solely a hypertext document system, then TBL created the first such system in HTML.

    Hypertext documents have come to encompass a broad range of Internet activities which TBL did not have much to do with. The WWW by no means dominates the Internet, but it's an effective mass-communication glue. It doesn't seem much of a stretch to call it the face of the Internet (for most people at least).

  6. It is "Cern", actually by ArsSineArtificio · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It's common in British (and thus by extension, Continental use of the English language) syntax to spell out acronyms with only the first letter capitalized. Thus, "Cern", "Nato", etc.

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