Dear All,Jadi film Angels & Demons (A&D) ini kurang lebih menggunakan salah satu isu tujuan dan/atau hasil uji coba riset untuk membuktikan asal muasal alam semesta yang berdampak munculnya partikel Tuhan/ partikel super simetri / Higgs Bosson’s yang diprediksikan menjadi sesuatu yang antimateri.
Isu percobaan oleh CERN 10 September 2008 itu cukup relevan dengan runtutan cerita film yang berkisar pada intrik suksesi Pimpinan Besar kaum Katholik di Vatikan - Roma.
Kurang lebih cerita yang mirip tentang Vatikan juga ada di Godfather III (Alpacino, Andy Garcia dkk).
Ciri khas film yang berdasarkan pada sebuah novel memang menjadi suatu film yang berdurasi panjang, seperti Curious case of Benjamin Button atau Legend of The Falls atau The Godfather (film A&D sendiri berdurasi +- 2.5 jam. Jadi sebaiknya sedia cemilan macam risoles, kroket, tahu isi dll, daripada ngelih/kaliren dalam bioskop. Juga dianjurkan untuk ibu-ibu yang mau nonton film ini untuk pipis duluan sebelum masuk studio, dari pada nonton sambil nahan-nahan gimana, gitu).
Cukup enak ditonton, karena alurnya tidak mudah ditebak dengan hasil akhir yang cukup tidak dapat diduga (padahal sejak awal film main saya sudah menduga lho, sumprit).
Apalagi yang main adalah aktor karismatik Tom Hanks (serba bisa, mulai drama, komedi, kartun, gangster, perang hingga thriller) juga Ewan Mc Gregor (biasanya main di film-film yang berthemakan futuristic macam Star Wars I, II, III, jadi Obi-Wan Kenobi).
Mungkin kalo membaca novelnya lebih mantap lagi.
Konon novel karya Dan Brown dengan judul yang sama itu dirilis sebelum Da Vinci Code.
Siapa yang punya ?... mbok saya pinjem.
Bagi yang belum nonton, silakan memilih bioskop kesayangan masing-masing. Jangan lupa tips saya tadi tentang bagaimana nonton nyaman film panjang, yaitu; sedia cemilan dan sadar pipis sejak awal.
Juga saran saya lagi, sebaiknya juga jangan baca novelnya dulu…. karena biasanya banyak alur cerita yang dipendekkan / tidak seruntut dengan yang dituliskan di novel. Juga bayangan akan wajah pemerannya tentu berbeda dengan yang digambarkan dalam novel.
Selamat menonton pada waktu yang berkenan bersama orang-orang yang disayangi/dikasihi/ditaksir/dirujuk/dijadiin lagi/barusan di-add temen facebook dsb.,
Salam,
Anton Joedijanto.
From: Anton Joedijanto Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Dear All,
Hari ini saya mendapatkan berita dalam lingkup perkembangan penelitian fisika kuantum bahwa pada hari ini Rabu 10 September 2008 di Jenewa (tepatnya di perbatasan Swiss-Perancis), pihak organisasi riset nuklir Eropa (CERN) melakukan uji coba injeksi proton ke dalam piranti LHC / Large Hadron Collider, dimana merupakan piranti superkonduktor terbesar di dunia yang akan menumbukkan dua proton dari arah berlawanan dengan kecepatan cahaya sehingga diperkirakan hasil tumbukan itu berdampak mirip terjadinya Big Bang / dentuman besar yang dipercaya sebagai asal muasal jagad raya, yang terjadi pada 13,7 milyar tahun yang lalu. Tidak hanya itu saja, dampak tumbukan (collides) dari dua proton di dalam piranti tersebut juga diduga menimbulkan black hole (semacam zarah non partikel yang menimbulkan fenomena gravitasi yang bahkan dapat membelokkan cahaya).
Percobaan mega proyek ini yang memerlukan dana 6 – 10 Milyar Dolar Amerik dan memerlukan waktu 14 tahun rancangan serta konsumsi daya hingga 125.000 megawatt, piranti LHC merupakan percobaan untuk membuktikan teori Higgs yang disampaikan oleh fisikawan Inggris Peter Higgs, dimana pada tahun 1964 menyampaikan teori dengan menumbukkan / men-smash proton pada kecepatan cahaya di dalam piranti tersebut akan ditemukan partikel Higgs bosson yang juga disebut-sebut sebagai ‘partikel Tuhan’ / ‘God Particle’. Dinamakan demikian karena riset tersebut diprediksikan dapat menghasilkan partikel supersimetri bahkan pembuktian fenomena ekstra dimensi.
Pro-kontra atas uji coba ini juga masih berlangsung. Alan Boyle, editor ilmiah media MSNBC menyampaikan terdapat dua kemungkinan : akan menyelamatkan atau justru menghancurkan bumi. Menyelamatkan karena dinilai dengan ditemukannya partikel supersimetri yang disebut-sebut sebagai sumber energi abadi. Atau justru menghancurkan, karena bumi akan ‘ditelan’ oleh zarah Black Hole / Lubang Hitam yang memiliki gravitasi dahsyat.
Stephen Hawking, ilmuwan fisika kuantum dari Inggris (penemu fenomena Black Hole dan penulis buku The Brief History of Time) berani bertaruh sebesar 100 USD (setara 70 Poundsterling) bahwa mega experiment ini tidak akan berhasil menghasilkan partikel Higgs bosson, karena yang disebut sebagai partikel Tuhan karena memang partikel itu merupakan sesuatu yang suci dalam pengertian ilmu kosmik.
Sedangkan Hubert Reeves, seorang astrofisika dari Perancis memprediksikan akan terjadi ‘sesuatu yang tak terduga’ yang dapat merubah dunia partikel fisik selamanya.
Well…. Mudah-mudahan tidak terjadi apa-apa yang justru merusak bumi akibat penelitian ini. Namun justru hasil yang positif dan bermanfaat bagi kelangsungan hidup umat manusia di muka bumi ini, seperti yang diduga oleh Pak De Hawking dan Pak Lik Reeves tersebut di atas.
Semoga bermanfaat, karena mungkin berita semacam ini belum pernah kita ikuti sebelumnya, karena media massa kita masih terlalu asyik untuk membahas dan mengupas hal-hal yang cenderung pada cara kehidupan/gaya hidup kaum selebritis.
Semoga berkenan dan selamat menunaikan ibadah puasa.
Salam,
Anton Joedijanto,
Penikmat Mekanika Kuantum.
Tue Sep 9, 3:56 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Renowned British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has bet 100 dollars (70 euros) that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science, he said Tuesday.
In the most complex scientific experiment ever undertaken, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be switched on Wednesday, accelerating sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light before smashing them together.
"The LHC will increase the energy at which we can study particle interactions by a factor of four. According to present thinking, this should be enough to discover the Higgs particle," Hawking told BBC radio.
"I think it will be much more exciting if we don't find the Higgs. That will show something is wrong, and we need to think again. I have a bet of 100 dollars that we won't find the Higgs," added Hawking, whose books including "A Brief History of Time" have sought to popularise study of stellar physics.
On Wednesday the first protons will be injected into a 27-kilometre (16.9-mile) ring-shaped tunnel, straddling the Swiss-French border at the headquarters of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Physicists have long puzzled over how particles acquire mass. In 1964, a British physicist, Peter Higgs, came up with this idea: there must exist a background field that would act rather like treacle.
Some scientists were however more optimistic.
Hubert Reeves, the French astrophysician, told the Swiss daily Le Matin that the invention could bring "unexpected results" that would change the world of particle physics forever.
"This machine will probably bring unexpected results that could turn particle physics on its head," Reeves said.
"It's a really impressive tool. It can go as deep underground as the length of a cathedral," he said.
Particles passing through it would acquire mass by being dragged through a mediator, which theoreticians dubbed the Higgs Boson.
The standard quip about the Higgs is that it is the "God Particle" -- it is everywhere but remains frustratingly elusive.
While questioning the likelihood of finding Higgs Bosons, Hawking said the experiment could discover superpartners, particles that would be "supersymmetric partners" to particles already known about.
"Their existence would be a key confirmation of string theory, and they could make up the mysterious dark matter that holds galaxies together," he told the BBC.
"Whatever the LHC finds, or fails to find, the results will tell us a lot about the structure of the universe," he added.
Hawking, the 66-year-old Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, was diagnosed with the muscle-wasting motor neuron disease at the age of 22.
He is in a wheelchair and speaks with the aid of a computer and voice synthesiser.
By Alan Boyle
Science editor
MSNBC
updated 5:03 p.m. ET Sept. 8, 2008
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Science editor
Will the Large Hadron Collider save the world, or destroy it?
As the atom-smasher at Europe's CERN research center is readied for its official startup near Geneva on Wednesday, researchers might wish that the general public was captivated by the quest for the Higgs boson, the search for supersymmetric particles and even the evidence for extra dimensions.
But if the feedback so far is any guide, the real headline-grabber is the claim that the world's most powerful particle-smasher could create microscopic black holes that some fear would gobble up the planet.
The black-hole scenario is even getting its day in court: Critics of the project have called for the suspension of work on the European collider until the scenario receives a more thorough safety review, filing separate legal challenges in U.S. federal court and the European Court of Human Rights.
The strange case of the planet-eating black hole serves as just one example showing how grand scientific projects can lead to a collision between science fiction and science fact. The hubbub also has led some to question why billions of dollars are being spent on a physics experiment so removed from everyday life.
Why do it?Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at the City College of New York, acknowledged that people often ask about the practical applications of particle physics. Even if physicists figure out how a particle called the Higgs boson creates the property of mass in the universe, how will that improve life on Earth?
"Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet reception?' Well, in some sense, yeah," he said. "All the wonders of quantum physics were learned basically from looking at atom-smasher technology."
Kaku noted that past discoveries from the world of particle physics ushered in many of the innovations we enjoy today, ranging from satellite communications and handheld media players to medical PET scanners (which put antimatter to practical use).
"But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television," he added. "That's a spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe."
About those black holes ...The black holes that may (or may not) be generated by the Large Hadron Collider would have theoretical rather than practical applications.
If the collider's detectors turn up evidence of black holes, that would suggest that gravity is stronger on a subatomic scale than it is on the distance scales scientists have been able to measure so far. That, in turn, would support the weird idea that we live in a 10- or 11-dimensional universe, with some of the dimensions rolled up so tightly that they can't be perceived.
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Some theorists say the idea would explain why gravity is so much weaker than the universe's other fundamental forces — for example, why a simple magnet can match the entire Earth's gravitational force pulling on a paper clip. These theorists suggest that much of the gravitational field is "leaking out" into the extra dimensions.
"It will be extremely exciting if the LHC did produce black holes," CERN theoretical physicist John Ellis said. "OK, so some people are going to say, 'Black holes? Those big things eating up stars?' No. These are microscopic, tiny little black holes. And they’re extremely unstable. They would disappear almost as soon as they were produced."
Not everyone is convinced that the black holes would disappear. "It doesn't have to be that way," said Walter Wagner, a former radiation safety officer with a law degree who is one of the plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit. Despite a series of reassuring scientific studies, Wagner and others insist that the black holes might not fizzle out, and they fear that the mini-singularities produced by the Large Hadron Collider will fall to the center of the earth, grow larger and swallow more and more of Earth's matter.
Ellis, Kaku and a host of other physicists point out that cosmic rays in space are far more energetic than the collisions produced in the Large Hadron Collider, and do not produce the kinds of persistent black holes claimed by the critics. In the most recent report, CERN scientists rule out the globe-gobbling black holes and the other nightmares enumerated in the lawsuit, even under the most outlandish scenarios. Wagner remains unconvinced, however.
"I don't think the knowledge we are going to acquire by doing such an experiment outweighs the risk that we are taking, if we can't quantify that risk. ... We need to obtain other evidence," he said.
CONTINUED: From strangelets to the 'super force'
