![]() Supercollider has been around since 1996, and provides a wide array of sound synthesis functions. Overtone acts as a client to the Supercollider synthesis server. Overtone is a Clojure library that provides tons of utilities for music making. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp which runs in the Java Virtual Machine. took a new approach to the banana piano by hooking it up to Clojure and Overtone. The time it takes for the pin to flip from a 0 to a 1 determines if the sensor is touched. The Arduino sets the pin as a low-level output, then sets the pin as an input with a pull up resistor. The banana becomes a cheap, colorful touch sensor, which looks sort of like a piano key. Continue reading “Smashing The Atom: A Brief History Of Particle Accelerators” → Posted in Featured, History, Original Art, Science, Slider Tagged lhc, particle accelerator, supercolliderĪt this point, the banana piano is a pretty classic hack. Let’s take a short break and look back into the history of “atom smashers” and the scientific progress they brought along. Recently, CERN released an update of the future European strategy for particle physics which includes the feasibility study for a 100 km large Future Circular Collider (FCC). This may seem like a long time ahead but the scientific community is already thinking about what comes next. In 2027, it will receive the last major upgrade, dubbed the High-Luminosity LHC, which is expected to complete operations in 2038. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with its 27 km circumference and €7.5 billion budget is still the largest and most expensive scientific instrument ever built, it’s physics program is slowly coming to an end. When it comes to building particle accelerators the credo has always been “bigger, badder, better”. It all starts when one particle loves another particle very much and they are attracted to each other, but then things move too fast, and all of a sudden they’re going in circles in opposite directions, and then they break up catastrophically…Ĭontinue reading “Something’s Up In Switzerland: Explaining The B Meson News From The Large Hadron Collider” → Posted in Current Events, Featured, News, Original Art, Science, Slider Tagged accelerator, large hadron collider, lhc, LHCb, particle accelerator, particle physics, physics, quantum physics, quark, science, supercollider Let’s dive into the basics of quantum particles, in case your elementary school education is a little rusty. Some results from the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment have recently been reported that are statistically significant, and they may have profound implications for the Standard Model, but it might also just be a numbers anomaly, and we won’t get to find out for a while. Scales always have 10 really big number associated.
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