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September 20

Looking for a particular science fiction book

I started reading a book once, stranded where it was lying around, but I couldn't finish it before leaving. It was written in German, but I don't remember whether it was a translation or originally in German. The outset was a group of people visiting CERN, and some huge accident happened resulting in the visitors, individually and as a group, being caught in some bubble, and experiencing the rest of the world as standing still (or going at such a slow speed that it was about as perceptible as the movement of an hour hand). Like The New Accelerator, but an entire book of around 300 pages. I remember they split up and wander around the world (i.e. Western Europe). I think there's a moment where the world starts moving again for a split second, but immediately stops. I don't remember a lot, though this was only about 7 years ago. The jacket was yellowish, I think. I didn't find it in CERN's "In popular culture" section. Any clues? ---Sluzzelin talk 15:07, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Sounds a bit like Flashforward (novel) though not exactly. - Eron^Talk 17:37, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, but I finally found it. It was 42 by Thomas Lehr (written in German, never translated as far as I can tell, and the cover was yellowish). ---Sluzzelin talk 20:44, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Audio card to speaker connectivity

Would it be possible to connect this audio card: Xonar Essence STX with this speaker system: Creative T4? If so, in which ways: digital and/or analogue? Also, would it be possible to connect a 5.1 analogue(3.5mm-connection) speaker system with this audio card somehow? With an adapter maybe? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.183.23.160 (talk) 19:10, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

You might want to ask this at The Computing Desk rather than here. --Jayron32 20:37, 20 September 2014 (UTC)