The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is creating A LOT of buzz. Im not gonna sit here and (try to) explain the whole process of how this LHC 'thingy' works, for numerous reasons. Its a lot to explain -- with too much background introductions in physics and quantum physics and also because I'm really not 100% sure myself!
Anyways, it's online on September 10th, and then we should either know the meaning of life, how to make black holes, or how molecules collide. Either way, there's a ton of information thats going to be attained from this -- specifically millions of gigabytes.
The LHC is predicted to generate 1 gigabyte per second of information -- or as the link below states -- "a dvd per 5 seconds" -- and an annual 15 million gigabytes (3 164 556 dvd's... I calculated that on my own...) -- all to be available to scientists all over the world by a single click on their computers.
This is going to be accomplished by 'set locations' of power house computer establishments, referred to as tiers. For example, tier 1 will be located at the CERN location will be powered by whats described as 100 000 of the worlds fasted CPU's and will communicate the information through fiber optic cables (10 gigabytes per second) to 11 other 'set locations' of tier 1, across the globe. Tier 2 will be at 147 different locations in universities and research laboratories to access this information.
Now of course this mammoth of a communication system is to shadow over the internet... But what I can think of is back in the day in elementary school -- when we would learn about computers, and how the computer would be the size of a warehouse. And then over the years that same computer is now a third of the strength of my laptop. So... give it a couple of years and these tiers will become the usb jump drives that I carry around? It's a little scary, but I'm still going to buy that usb drive...
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