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LHC Gets Android App

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-responsible-for-black-holes-in-your-smartphone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have made an app to visualize proton collisions at the largest of the four experiments, ATLAS. 'For the first time you can now grab live collision events from the underground detectors in Geneva, and beam them direct to your own device. As well as a variety of educational resources, the application allows you to interact with the collision events in full 3D graphics. You can also find out how the different parts of the detector work, learn how to identify different types of collision, and even put your new skills to the test by playing the "Hunt the Higgs" game.' It's free to download from the Android Market."

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  1. I'm confused.... by Dexter+Herbivore · · Score: 2

    Is this primarily an attempt to educate, a crowd-sourcing initiative or just eye candy? I'm interested, but I can't fully comprehend the ultimate purpose. (Admittedly, I may be over-simplifying, it may be all of these and more).

    1. Re:I'm confused.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Dear Dexter,
            If you're interested in the motivation, you might like to have a peek at the Oxford science blog: http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/111007.html

              We're physicists rather than app developers, so we admit that the game is not quite Angry Birds. But we hope that non-experts might learn something useful from it. Let us know which bits you like - and do give us any suggestions you have for improvement and we'll see if we can add them in a future version.

      Alan Barr
      University of Oxford

  2. Re:There's a "build tiny black hole" option by ByOhTek · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you want. Personally, I think it sucks.

    --
    Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).