December 2014

One of the images on the Higgs Hunters site

A few days ago, CERN opened the Open Data portal, where the organizazion made available to anyone information on the experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Now a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the New York University, The University of Birmingham, the Zooniverse project and CERN’s ATLAS experiment led to the creation of the Higgs Hunters project that allows anyone to collaborate on a research on the Higgs boson.

Transcendence by Charles Sheffield

The novel “Transcendence” by Charles Sheffield was published for the first time in 1992. It’s the third book of the Heritage universe and is the sequel to “Divengence” It’s also part of the omnibus titled “Transvergence”.

The fierce Zardalu are back but no one believes it. Not even the testimony of a respected scientist such as Darya Lang, that of a Councilor and that of an android who can’t lie, are not considered. They need to find hard evidence so the heterogeneous group who stumbled into a group of Zardalu in stasis intends to find out where they ended up.

Nobody ever knew the location of Genizee, the Zardalu homeworld, and over the millennia passed since they were considered extinct no one found it. But no one had as much information as the group that met them and thanks to the new data they locate the area of space where to find the planet. The problem is that it’s a large space-time anomaly.