most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-24T09:05:45Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/114363 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/114363/impact-of-lhc-on-math Alexander Chervov 2012-11-24T19:05:15Z 2012-11-24T19:33:01Z

<p>LHC (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider" rel="nofollow">Large Hadron Collider</a>) "... remains one of the largest and most complex experimental facilities ever built". May be it is even the most complex project in humankind's history(?).</p> <p>Such projects usually have impact beyond their original target and boost science and technology in a non-trivial way. </p> <p>So I wonder what kind of impact it has/(might have) on mathematics (if any), and what specific impact had mathematics (or might have) on the LHC project (if any)?</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/114363/impact-of-lhc-on-math/114366#114366 Theo Johnson-Freyd 2012-11-24T19:33:01Z 2012-11-24T19:33:01Z

<p>I am not an expert on the following aspect of LHC, so I'll bring it up but hope others will elaborate (feel free to use the community wiki features!):</p> <p>One of the major contributions of LHC has been to develop better data-management technology. LHC generates way too much data to <em>store</em>, let alone to transmit, and so quite a lot of statistics, mathematics, and computer research went into designing hardware that makes instantaneous decisions about what data to save. Once the robot has culled the data, transmitting it to humans for further processing is quite a task, and it's reasonable to think that the hardware developed to do so will provide one of the models for a next-generation internet.</p>