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LHC to switch on early tomorrow amid death threats.
Heads up, science fiends and night owls: The greatest science experiment ever built is set to switch on at around 3:30 A.M. Eastern time tomorrow.
After 14 years and $8 billion, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) plans to inject the first beam of protons fully around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the circular particle accelerator 17 miles (27 kilometers) long straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.
It will most assuredly not destroy the world.
What it will do is help researchers answer some big questions about the universe—why particles have mass; what dark matter may be made of, and why matter survived its brush with antimatter when the universe was young.
After 14 years and $8 billion, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) plans to inject the first beam of protons fully around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the circular particle accelerator 17 miles (27 kilometers) long straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.
It will most assuredly not destroy the world.
What it will do is help researchers answer some big questions about the universe—why particles have mass; what dark matter may be made of, and why matter survived its brush with antimatter when the universe was young.
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Permalink Reply by Drew Zeiba on -
http://www.geekd.net/archive/full/?id=97
Cause its so very dangerous... Uninformed people are so very annoying.
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Permalink Reply by Arthur on -
Yeah they are im not at all worried about the LHC. I trust the scientist and its so very intresting.
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Permalink Reply by Drew Zeiba on
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Discovery of Higgs-Boson can justify it even if it would create an earth-devouring black hole :) (which it won't)
I just wish people would stop ranting about all that bullshit.
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Permalink Reply by llama man on -
The only thing that makes all the proletarians interested in it at all is the fear of death. They don't care what we find, and that really annoys me. "You need an infinite amount of energy to go faster than the speed of light and form a black hole and a planet of power stations will never quite be enough, so shut up and pay more attention in science"... I almost recorded myself saying this so as to save my voice box that day. I don't mean to be offensive to non-science Geeks (though I probably am) but do you're homework before saying we're all going to die.
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