Let me introduce myself
My name is Wouter Tengeler.
I was born way back in 1968 in Holland. I live in the beautiful town of Breukelen (yes where Brooklyn got it’s name from) in Holland together with my wife to be. I run a small company named The Motion Studio multimedia productions. This company specializes in simple game development, (web)software development and training (of advanced programming techniques).
So why did I decide to start yet another weblog?
When I look around me in my world I wonder about things I encounter. Why are things the way they are? How do things work? How do they do that? etc. Does that sound vague to you? Well let me explain it.
The other day I read an article in the Scientific American. It described that scientists will be able to find a new quantum particle using a new hadron collider being build in Switserland. In the article the writer wrote about the energies involved in creating this new particle. This particle can only be measured indirectly by detecting the collisions with other (known) particles. The traces of these particles can be detected in huge dectectors (a couple of meters wide and high). There comes my first question: How can a particle with the size of around 10-29 meter be measured by such a large detector. Also the lifespan of this particle is measured in 10-30 seconds. To the best of my knowledge we have no computers with clocks that are of that accuracy. So how can they measure something with a lifespan shorter than anything that we can reference?
This weblog will be full of these kind of musings. Sometimes I will try to explain things the best I can but most of the time it will be just my thoughts trusted to this weblog. I think there are many of you out there that have the same thoughts. Maybe you can help me clear up some of the questions in life that I have.