This week its the giant, world-ending, Large Hadron Collider.

The LHC is currently the largest and most powerful particle accelerator on this planet. This has many scientist-type people wondering if this large ring o’ magnets will in fact, put pay to the universe. In my opinion, I don’t think anything bad will come from it, only good science… we hope.

In fact the LHC has, today, just smashed the energy record it had just set in December 2009. [Linky]

Oh and of course, we cannot forget the obligatory and ever knowing, Wikipedia quote:

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide  opposing particle beams of either protons … or lead nuclei…  It is expected that it will address the most fundamental questions of physics, hopefully allowing progress in understanding the deepest laws of nature. The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

[Wikipedia]

“But why this wall?” you may ask yourself, well bemused reader, this Saturday [13th March] they will be lighting beacons all along the wall from one side of the UK to the other. A sight that has not been seen since the olden times.

And of course an obligatory Wikipedia quote follows this brief sentence;

Hadrian’s Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium) is a stone and timber fortification  built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was the first of two fortifications built across Great Britain, the second being the Antonine Wall in what is now Scotland. Hadrian’s Wall is the better known of the two because its physical remains are more evident today.

[Wikipedia]

For more information about lighting up the Wall visit Illuminating Hadrian’s Wall.

Here comes a Wikipedia Quote right at your face!

Diamond Light Source is a synchrotron  research facility located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. It produced its first user beam towards the end of January 2007. Diamond is being used to probe the structure and properties of many types of materials and complex structures like proteins — information that is used by a wide range of scientists.

[Wikipedia]

Been some time since I made a ~Featured~ post.

Read more to find out what’s new to Southanuk in 2010.

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So what’s new to Southanuk in its 10th year?

Well for one we have the return of Google Earth Friday. A long forgotten feature of Southanuk that was quite prominent on SOK flash site that I wrote myself. This can be found here

Next up we have logging in with Facebook. It’s so simple to login to Southanuk now, just click on the bar above and select “Connect With Facebook” and Southanuk will create an account for you here using your Facebook data. Don’t worry, you can select what you share with Southanuk and what data Southanuk will send to Facebook [you will be asked at every stage if you wish to post something to your wall.]

Also new, Ok so not all that new, is an updated theme. A lot of the errors that were on the older revisions of the theme have been eradicated and re-written. Still one or two issues to work on but I’m nearly there! Also, keep your eyes peeled for a new look top section of the site that will hopefully consolidate some of what I have on the site to make it easier to read.

Finally, something I rolled out quietly, is a new search system. This system will search everything on the site, and I mean everything; files, comments, posts, pages and maybe other things… who knows :O.

So I hope you enjoy the new features for Southanuk and keep checking the site for new posts and whatnot!