I’m not sure if you ever heard of them. I remember reading something about bulk low-light photography with lights but was a long time ago.

Now, I’ve found a website that dedicates to this kind of photography which is called Light Art Performance Photography. The images are breathtaking. You feel like grabbing your camera and wait for the evening so that you can go out there and try to do something similar. It’s simply amazing. Check out their website on http://www.lapp-pro.de.

Some examples of their work after the break . . .

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 “The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most complex scientific instrument ever built and the highest energy particle accelerator in the world. The accelerator is located 100 m underground and runs through both French and Swiss territory.”

The LHC is a huge (and I mean HUGE) machine built to be part of CERN’s scientific complex. The size of this particle accelerator is 26659 meters (circumference) with a total of 9300 magnets inside which will be pre-cooled to 80 Kelvin (-193.2 degrees Celsius) using more the 10 thousand tonnes of liquid nitrogen. These will also be filled with about 60 tonnes of liquid helium so that they can reach the temperature of 1.9 K (-271.3 degrees Celsius). That’s less than 2 degrees above absolute zero.

After 20 years of hard work LHC is ready to fire the first beam this Wednesday (10 September 2008) after passing the final test of its synchronization systems.You can watch this event online through http://webcast.cern.ch/.

For more information about the largest particle collision ever built you can visit CERN’s website.

. . . that the speed of sound is 343 m/s or 1235 km/h? Speeds higher than this are called supersonic and are usually referred by the unit Mach. Being Mach 2 two times the speed of sound (2470 km/h). Speeds after Mach 5 are usually called hypersonic speeds.

. . . that the speed of light is approximately 300,000 km/s (three hundred thousand kilometers per second)? To be more precise it is 299,792,458 m/s (meters per second).

. . . the distance from Earth to Sun is around 149,598,000 kilometers (almost 150 million kilometers)? To this distance we can call Astronomical Unit or AU.

. . . that with the above data we can say that light generated by the Sun will take roughly 500 seconds (8 minutes and 40 seconds) to reach us.

“Wormholes to other worlds can be recognised by the unusual way they bend light” are some words that belong to a Russian scientist that believes that some wormholes could be a passage to other universes. Currently no evidence of wormholes exist, but this could be because they are disguised as black holes.

Read the entire article here.

Cool. If this is true we can start planning our parallel universe trips. Maybe we can even find ourselves in the other side.