LHC - it's on!
we're on the news in a lots of countries today, as the largest particle accelerator in the world (all of 27kms long, 100m under my very feet) was turned on this morning.
a lot of people have been talking about it, fearing a black hole (some physicists in Hawaii but also in Europe have been trying to stop the project), while the people who work there have been making fun of the whole event: first with a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM&feature=related), then with a big 'end of the world' party last night- which i didn't actually go to cos i had other things planned, but it was apparently lots of fun.
so this evening we are still alive, as the CERN scientists planned. apparently, it'll take at least a month before they start doing serious stuff (the next party, then!), and probably another couple of years before they find out more about the big bang (the point of the whole experiment).
for more information, check out this links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67q_2V6xOxE&feature=related. there are more where it came from...
a lot of people have been talking about it, fearing a black hole (some physicists in Hawaii but also in Europe have been trying to stop the project), while the people who work there have been making fun of the whole event: first with a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM&feature=related), then with a big 'end of the world' party last night- which i didn't actually go to cos i had other things planned, but it was apparently lots of fun.
so this evening we are still alive, as the CERN scientists planned. apparently, it'll take at least a month before they start doing serious stuff (the next party, then!), and probably another couple of years before they find out more about the big bang (the point of the whole experiment).
for more information, check out this links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67q_2V6xOxE&feature=related. there are more where it came from...
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