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- XenoSNK, on 08/28/2008, -2/+35Isn't this title the same as "Japan Physicists Aim to do Their Job"?
- wonderchemist, on 08/27/2008, -0/+26LHC's goal is to study high energy events in the 10-1000 TeV range (10 for p-p, and 1000 for pb-pb). J-PRAC proton beam operates at 50 GeV, but the proton beam isn't what they are interested in. The proton beam hits a target and generates secondary beams. J-PRAC can thus generate a beam of neutrons (and other particles also), and it is these secondary beams that do the science.
For example in the article they talk about probing things x-rays can't. Well one technique for doing that is neutron scattering, for which you need a neutron beam. - aforce369, on 08/28/2008, -4/+23Hate to rain on all of your parades, but the answer to every universal mystery has already been found.
It's 42.
/universe. - GorfTron, on 08/28/2008, -1/+18Stop work on the universe mysteries, Japanese Physicists, and get back to work on my hot, robotic ***** wife!
- Incomp3tnt, on 08/27/2008, -0/+14Question from someone who's very interested in this subject but knows very little (me): So what's the difference between the LHC and the J-PARC?
- D4r7h3v1l, on 08/28/2008, -0/+14...don't all scientists aim to unlock the universe's mysteries?
Isn't that sorta the definition of a scientist? - TVarmy, on 08/28/2008, -0/+13Maybe if they resonate it with CERN, we could create a super big bang, creating a really awesome universe we could go to on weekends and holidays!
/We've assured the administrator NOTHING WILL GO WRONG! - morpheus69, on 08/28/2008, -0/+9Mature digg users?
- Incomp3tnt, on 08/27/2008, -0/+8Thanks :)
- WalkerTXclocker, on 08/28/2008, -0/+7not to rain on your US bashing parade, but
from the article...
"The world's two other hubs for atom physics are in the United States, which has government-run laboratories in Illinois and Tennessee, and Western Europe, with laboratories in Britain, Germany and on the French-Swiss border. " - reqage, on 08/28/2008, -0/+7who are you and why do you know this? seriously? :)
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6Science stuff
- IbbyIbby, on 08/28/2008, -4/+10Science is getting so serious these days. I can only imagine what it was like being around when radio was first invented , or electricity harnessed. Some mature Digg users may even remember what it was like to see man first land on the moon. Perhaps, I will be able to tell my kids the moment science PROVED , not just showed the reason the universe is infinite or definitively the nature and origins and integral properties of mass.
The philosophical implications of this new age of science are mind boggling. There is the obvious; particularly, how mankind will deal with this. Perhaps, mass hysteria in the wake of the true dismantling of religion when men realize the universe was not created for man or more likely the realization that we can harness the entire universe to our advantage. I hope our governments realize , and humankind in general that we are arriving that cusp of a new age of unlimited discovery.
Science is the truth. - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6Name says it all.
- awesometastic1, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6all of them?
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5"Japanese Physicists Are Performing Physics Experiments" hard to believe... but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
The Onion should capitalize. - Yage2006, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5They are too different beasts. They were not designed to do the same things.
- TVarmy, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5That's true, but LHC and this project are aiming to find out the more fundamental facts about mater and the energy. It seems to me we're very likely to find some practical technologies this way. If perpetual motion is somehow possible, or perhaps the answer to practical nuclear fusion, CERN will probably give us a better lead than anything else.
- h0ly, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5Wake me up when they finally start the NERV project.
- delumen, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4I do agree on what has been said (science being the truth but also being subjective), but we also must consider that there could be something else that is not science nor religion. The mere idea that observing an experiment changes the outcome, that means that we could have been changing the outcome of every experiment ever done. That is, IF, that is true. These days we should all keep an open mind and filter what information is being fed to us, notice all possibilities... God or no God
- SugarCoatedSalt, on 08/28/2008, -4/+8see? why can't OUR government fund scientific research that will propel the human species to countless discoveries that will benefit us, not only now, but in the distant future, instead of making wars based on false claims?
- ExRe, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Makin tentacle p0rn.
- lornali, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3The Japanese can teach us a few things. The trouble is we are reluctant to give credit where it is due
- Xebozone, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Darn! Got there before me!
I tip my hat for you, good sir! - wilgamesh, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3LHC is an atom smasher.
Article alludes to the J-PARC detecting neutrinos. Typically, neutrino detection experiments focus on natural sources, largely from the Sun. Therefore, these LHC and J-PARC have little overlap. - em00guy, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3I read "Japanese Physicists Claim to Unlock Universe's Mysteries." I felt bad for the LHC folks.
- awesometastic1, on 08/28/2008, -1/+4people have always believed what they want to believe, often despite what any evidence would say one way or the other (both religious zealots, their scientific counterparts, and sometimes the union of the two sets). Our brains are just wired that way i suppose. I mean, for instance a religious person would say the incredible order to everything in the universe speaks of a divine creator. A scientist would say the lack of any evidence other than the order (which can be explained up to the first cause, to which science has yet to come up with a plausible cause) proves there is no divine creator.
Now prove scientifically to the religious zealot that God doesn't exist and they will deny your science saying it is wrong somewhere. Prove by some religious act (miraculous healing of incurable disease, booming voice from the sky, or whatever) that God does exist and the scientist would just come up with plausible scientific reasons the act happened. And if none could be come up with, they would just say that science hasn't yet solved every mystery in the universe and this is just simply another example of some scientific precept about the universe we haven't solved yet (such as the first cause).
The real irony is that given this, both sides still like to act like the other side is completely irrational and "close-minded"... sort of the whole 'pot calling the kettle black' thing i suppose. - Iztikeit, on 08/28/2008, -1/+4Science is pretty subjective, but subjective truths fill certain needs.
- morpheus69, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Yeah, don't all physicists aim to unlock the universe's mysteries? I thought that was the job description.
- SugarCoatedSalt, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3ok, but they aren't funding as much as they should be. our space program for example...the things we could have had accomplished if the budget was like the one during the space race.
and I wasn't necessarily bashing he US, just pointing out that we could be better. - flawedprefect, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3.. great. here comes AKIRA.
- positron, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Yeah. Before you know it Tokai will become an urban wasetland battleground where squads of secret elite bio-soldiers battle against hordes of youkai-possessed warriors in an effort to close an interdimensional hell-portal thus saving Japan and the world from total destruction. Maybe.
- Iztikeit, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2How many roads must a man walk?
- morpheus69, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2We ony have one parade ;-(
- morpheus69, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Well, some just want to design weapons to better blow people to bits...
- nullcodes, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Hello? We need ITER and IFMIF to be fully funded.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2This is pretty much how every Anime destroys Tokyo. It's always the scientists getting a bit over zealous with their experiments.
- Yage2006, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2lol @ psyorgs adds by google.
Check this one > Quantum Changed My Life - "How Does The Secret Really Work?" The Answer Inside May Shock You.
Kinda hurts the credibility of this site. - mazza558, on 08/27/2008, -3/+5Wait, won't CERN do this first?
- JustLoren, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Sure, America is not giving as much funding as it should be. Except it has TWO "hubs for atom physics." That's twice what any other country in the world was credited with.
But hey, yeah, America sucks. - Gndoab, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1why do all the hard work if other people are willing to do it for ya?
- Spoomeister, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1If something goes wrong with this or the LHC, you're going to see a rather large amount of free, clean energy... for about a picosecond... then you get to be a part of that free, clean energy too.
- mCanada, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1If only we knew more about them there "atoms" and such, we could make a new fangled horseless carriage!
- silversalute, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2We were really going good with our space program in the 60's - 70's. Then the democrats strangled it and diverted the money into federal entitlement programs while whining that the money should be spent here on earth. As if we were actually spending the money off planet... They killed the SCSC project in Texas during the 90's.
- obilon, on 08/28/2008, -0/+142!
- Christ0s, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1You gotta wonder who's idea it was to build a particle accelerator in an earthquake zone?
- omgwtflawl, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Wait a minute, there are much better things around then science. The burning bush, for instance!
- exformation, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1well at first i thought his name said wonderchrist.
- JustLoren, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1We change the outcome of every experiment ever done?
Do you have even a passing familiarity with the Uncertainty Principle? - Spoomeister, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Hopefully, for their sake, it will go online and let them do their experiments before the LHC kills us all.
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