Okay, so NASA has just told us that the LCROSS probe found water on the moon – in a crater at the lunar south pole (click here for more) – but it’s also time to start counting down the days until the Large Hadron Collider cranks up again and maybe a black hole gets us…
“It's been plagued by everything from liquid helium leaks to wayward baguettes, but the mega-physics experiment known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is finally ready to start smashing protons into each other. Particle collisions could begin in two weeks.
The LHC is a 27-kilometer underground tunnel designed to accelerate atomic particles and smash them into each other. The goal is to see what happens when such particles interact with tremendous amounts of energy, the way they might under extreme conditions in outer space. The results of LHC experiments will reveal a lot about the origins of our universe, and the composition of matter within it. CERN, the Swiss facility where the enormous underground experiment is located, has announced that test beams in the LHC have zoomed around most parts of the accelerator without incident.” (Click here for more.)
And let’s not forget the theory that time travelers might come back down the string and put a stop to all these God Particle shenanigans. (Click here to go back to Doc40, October 19th for that story.)
The secret word is Apprehension
“It's been plagued by everything from liquid helium leaks to wayward baguettes, but the mega-physics experiment known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is finally ready to start smashing protons into each other. Particle collisions could begin in two weeks.
The LHC is a 27-kilometer underground tunnel designed to accelerate atomic particles and smash them into each other. The goal is to see what happens when such particles interact with tremendous amounts of energy, the way they might under extreme conditions in outer space. The results of LHC experiments will reveal a lot about the origins of our universe, and the composition of matter within it. CERN, the Swiss facility where the enormous underground experiment is located, has announced that test beams in the LHC have zoomed around most parts of the accelerator without incident.” (Click here for more.)
And let’s not forget the theory that time travelers might come back down the string and put a stop to all these God Particle shenanigans. (Click here to go back to Doc40, October 19th for that story.)
The secret word is Apprehension
How do I get a ride on this time-travellin' gig then?
ReplyDeleteTokyo 1972 here I fuckin' come!
i have bad feeling about this fucking thing,how exactly is it going to benefit us? i just think about a load of academics divorced from reality thinking it would be a `really cool` thing to do.hmm i`d like to meet them.individually.
ReplyDeletestrange quarks per LHC = nothings a'la DNA cowboys
ReplyDeleteone of my first Farrenial epiphanies
(Farrenoid? Farrenique? Farrenine? Micklian? That crazy-bastard-with-the-hair-a-zoidal? Farnzine? Is there an established protocol?)
Now all I need is a stuff receiver cage and a custom template so I can have Molly Ringwald on tap.
ReplyDeleteSorry, arcane cultural reference...