Yesterday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) made available the first data from the Large Hadron Collider or LHC on the Internet for anyone who wants to use them: So the internet has acquired 300 terabytes of knowledge.
The data includes 100 TB "data from the 7 TeV proton collisions, which is half the data collected at the LHC by the CMS detector in 2011."
The release of this data was added to another 2014 infodump, and you can access it via CERN Portal Open Data.
Some of the information provided to the public is raw data that CERN scientists have not worked on, while others have already been processed to become available for high school science lessons.
CERN released untreated data for a few practical reasons:
"Once we have exhausted the exploration of the data, we see no reason not to make it public. The benefits are many, such as inspiring high school students to train like the particle physicists of tomorrow, ”said Kati Lassila-Perini, the physics CMS responsible for data management.
The "opening" of information has natural and practical scientific uses, as: CERN reports that they already have cases of scientists confirming their results, or other scientists conducting their research in ways they did not initially anticipate.
