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Going Boldly (and Slowly) Where No Man Has Gone Before

Successfully exploring the universe is not a lead pipe cinch and working for a company with the word “solutions” in its name is a great way to learn the value of speaking cautiously until exciting developments can be proved to translate into solid solutions.

As the Large Hadron Collider continues on its shake-down launch, bugs, glitches and oversights large and small come to the surface. Currently the LHC is conducting experiments at half-power. While this approach is not supplying answers about the fundamental questions of physics as fast as the world would like, the LHC team is making progress.

The good news bodes well for all of us. One of the goals of CERN is “to make the results of our work as widely known and used as possible.” That goal covers not just physics, but all the knowledge generated by the European-based researchers.

The idea is that basic research drives innovation, so CERN encourages its people to transfer the technology and knowledge they acquire to all potential users.

In a couple of years, the LHC will be working at full power and the spigot of information can open wider. I think the world will benefit from this future stream of useful technology and I hope Vulcan continues to play a role in the LHC’s success.

Now it’s time to end our series of posts on the LHC and shift to a different arena of human activity—Vulcan’s long support for the USA Luge team. The author of this series will be Vulcan GMS’s founder, Chuck Yanke, who has long been a supporter and sponsor of the USA Luge Team.

Tune in next week for the beginning of an interesting series.

In the interim, take a moment to visit our website and learn more about all the ways Vulcan GMS uses lead products to heal, detect, protect, explore the origin of the universe and even find ways to help the USA Luge team compete more effectively: www.vulcangms.com

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