Help CERN find the "God particle" with your computer

[Ichingcarpenter]

The world’s largest particle accelerator is asking for your help. Members of the public are invited to assist in the search for the Higgs boson, also dubbed the "God particle," and other elusive particles by using their home computers to process data.
Volunteers can donate computer downtime to the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva. At this 17-mile (27 kilometer) underground ring, physicists are smashing together protons at near the speed of light to create new particles that might reveal some of the mysteries of nature.

"Volunteers can now actively help physicists in the search for new fundamental particles that will provide insights into the origin of our universe, by contributing spare computing power from their personal computers and laptops," CERN officials wrote in a statement.

The program, called LHC@home, is similar to popular distributed computing projects like SETI@home (where volunteers aid in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence), Folding@home (for protein folding research) and others...................... http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/huge-atom-smasher-needs-your-help

[snagglepuss]

1. k and r nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Links to Program in article

My keyboard is broke typing on my iTouch

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Link

Join LHC@home

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[Eddie Haskell]

3. There is no such thing as the God particle.

Only the next particle, but this is very cool.

[Wait Wut]

5. Way cool!

But, I only use Macs. :-(