Tech UPTechnologyGoogle Street View comes to CERN

Google Street View comes to CERN

At CERN , the prestigious laboratory on the outskirts of Geneva dedicated to researching particle physics, some of the world's best physicists and engineers are working to figure out what the universe is made of or what its origins were like. This center recently opened its doors to Google Street View so that any Internet user, from any corner of the world, can visit its laboratories, control centers and underground tunnels that house their experiments. "The Street View images will also allow scientists who collaborate in CERN projects to see the equipment that is being used, even if they are working on the other side of the world," they say from the official Google blog. ?

To achieve this, members of the Street View team from Google's Zurich office worked for two weeks with members of CERN to obtain incredible images of the ATLAS experiment , which weighs 7,000 tons, is dedicated to the search for fundamental particles such as the Boson. from Higgs, as well as from ALICE, the heavy ion detector designed to study highly interactive matter at extreme energy densities, where a state of matter called a quark-gluon plasma is formed. The facilities of the CMS, the LHCb and the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider can also be visited through this application.

A ray of light contains more information than you think

A simple ray of light, a jet of photons, is capable of giving us information about the temperature, composition, speed and distance of the star that emitted it.

The legacy of Albert Einstein: the Theory of Relativity

On this day Albert Einstein was born in Germany, author of the theory of relativity, who determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers.

An asteroid that was going to hit Earth in 2023 turns out to be...

For a few days in January, asteroid 2022 AE1 became the most dangerous asteroid observed in more than a decade.

This is theory that says what was there before the Big Bang

One of the problems with physics is that its two great theories, general relativity and quantum theory, get along like a cat and a dog. Although we have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity for more than half a century, the truth is that the results are quite disappointing.

Is there only one time?

Time is a concept that we use daily throughout our lives. However, what is it? Time, we say, is what the clock ticks. But that is not saying much. If we reflect a little more we will see that no matter how hard we try to find an answer, none will completely satisfy us. Time is an elusive concept and it is surprising that something so familiar is so difficult to define.

More