Large Hadron Collider Update
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
CERN’s super-expensive Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was shut down last September due to one badly-soldered electrical connection, with the expectation that it would be up and running this September. This will not be the case. After inspecting the entire system, technicians found 5,000 faulty electrical connections, apparently due to poor workmanship. In an effort to get something in the way of results, CERN will run the collider at half-power starting this November. Then in late 2010 it will shut down the system to make the repairs necessary for full-power usage. So it may be years before we see the ground-breaking results that were originally expected.
The video in the linked article is from the International Space Station, and shows the stabilizing effect of gyroscopes. The demonstration is done in zero-gravity, and the “gyroscopes” are portable CD players.
A new strain of swine flu has broken out in Mexico and Texas, leading to concerns about a pandemic. The linked article has more information, as well as answers to common questions.
This article is one of the more readable explanations that I’ve seen of how universes are created. It’s short and concise, yet manages to cover topics from quantum multiverses to what may exist outside of our universe. 
DNA can be used to make a one-way process suitable for encryption. I don’t completely understand the details, but the concept is interesting. I’m also thinking that DNA cryptography might be easier to implement than quantum cryptography.
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This theory contends that the interior of the universe is simply a replication of the information on its outer surface. And since the 3-D (okay, 4-D but let’s keep this simple) interior can hold much more data than the 2-D surface, the internal information has a granularity, sort of like what happens when you expand a bitmap image. It sounds pretty bizarre, but there are mathematical and experimental results that may back it up. The “blurring” threshold is believed to be about 10-16 meters, which is measurable by existing equipment.
