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Is Two Million Gigabytes of Data Enough to Uncover the Mystery of the Big Bang?

Here’s a little clip about the Grid Computing facility that nabs and stores the data from the CERN Hadron Collider project.  Having forgotten 99% of my college physics math I still do not understand why it takes such massive power to analyze data from particles so small that, if they were dollars, you could pay off the US national debt with a grain of sand worth of them.

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October 4, 2008 - Posted by | news, Singularity | ,

1 Comment »

  1. Maybe we should change our currency to be these small particles. Sounds like we can solve a lot quickly :)

    Comment by glenn | October 4, 2008 | Reply


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