31.01.2010

Sentries at the Limits of Science

A particle accelerator is used for fundamental scientific research at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. Nobody is allowed to be in the tunnel while experiments are taking place - the radiation would be deadly. A key management system from Deister ensures that this cannot happen.

An atom was considered by the ancient Greeks to be 'unsliceable‘ - you couldn‘t get any smaller. Today‘s physicists don‘t find it so easy to stop at the smallest particle - there is apparently always something even smaller beyond that. more