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Nels Cline Singers: Winter 2011 Tour Dates

January 18th, 2011 | No Comments

WILCO LEAD GUITARIST ANNOUNCES WEST COAST DATES

Nels Cline Singers

Nels Cline Singers are
heading out on the road with Yuka C.
Honda in support of their 2010 release Initiate. The tour includes stops in Seattle, Portland, Arcata,
San Francisco, Felton, LA, and NY.

Initiate, in a beautifully designed, six-panel digipak featuring Simon Norfolk’s gorgeous photographs of
the world’s largest machine (the Large Hadron Collider at CERN) is Cline’s first double album and, with its second
disc culled from a September 2009 performance at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, the Singers’ first live album.

TOUR DATES
01/29/11 Sat Chapel Seattle, WA
01/30/11 Sun Doug Fir Portland, OR
02/02/11 Wed Arcata Playhouse Arcata, CA

02/03/11 Thu The Independent San Francisco, CA

02/04/11 Fri Don Quixote’s Felton, CA
02/05/11 Sat Getty Center for the Arts Los Angeles, CA

02/26/11 Sat Le Poisson Rouge New York, NY

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Black holes: Win some, lose some

September 16th, 2010 | No Comments

The more they are understood, the more mysterious they become

THE black holes that get the most press these days are the microscopic sort expected to pop out of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva and, some misguidedly fear, gobble up the Earth in the process. But not every black-hole buff’s gaze has turned to the collider. Plenty of physicists still look to the skies in search for clues to the nature of what is now believed to be as humdrum a cosmic occurrence as stars and planets. Some of what they see poses more questions than it answers.

Apart from the as-yet-unobserved microscopic variety, physicists have spotted numerous telltale signs of black holes that weigh several times the mass of the sun. These are believed to be the remnants of stars that have run out of nuclear fuel and thus collapsed through the pull of their own gravity. There are also signs of the even-more-massive brethren of these star-sized black holes—monsters which are thought to weigh between 100,000 and 50 billion solar masses and found at the centres of galaxies. …

After Successful Collisions, CERN Readies Large Hadron Collider for Data Collection

April 1st, 2010 | No Comments

CERN scientists decide to skip a previously scheduled shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator that recently collided twin proton beams at 7 TeV. The successful test marked the official start of the LHC research program.
– When scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN) successfully collided twin proton beams
at 7 TeV this week, it set a major milestone for the worlds biggest and most
expensive machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and marked the official start
of the LHC research pro…

Large Hadron Collider Sets Energy Record

March 20th, 2010 | No Comments

CERN scores another success with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), setting a record for highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator.
– After an initial series of setbacks related to technical glitches, the
European Organization for Nuclear Researchs (CERN) Large Hadron
Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator located outside Geneva has begun
to produce results. This week, CERN reported the LHC successfully
circulated two 3.5 TeV …

The Large Hadron Collider: Big is back

November 26th, 2009 | No Comments

The world’s largest and most expensive experiment is up and running. Again

SOMETIMES the only way to crack a nut is with a sledgehammer. Such is the case with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), an experiment so grand that it spans two countries in its quest for subatomic particles so tiny that they are literally almost nothing. It was ingloriously shut down after springing a helium leak in September 2008, before it had even got properly going. If all is well over the next few days, though, it will become the most powerful particle collider in the world.

The machine lies 100 metres below the countryside, straddling the Franco-Swiss border outside Geneva. This is where CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory, has its headquarters. The LHC is housed in a circular tunnel some 27 kilometres (17 miles) around. At four points on this circle sit vast experimental halls where beams of protons, circulating at more than 99.99% of the speed of light in a vacuum comparable to that of outer space, will collide at temperatures just above absolute zero. Tens of thousands of physicists from more than 100 countries are watching to see what happens when they do so. …

LHC Circulates Two Beams Simultaneously

November 24th, 2009 | No Comments

After a successful restart last week, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator which cost $10 billion to construct, circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time.
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the worlds largest
machine, successfully circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time, following
the reactivation of the device on November 20. The European Organization for
Nuclear Research (CERN), a Geneva-based particle physics laborat…