I’ve been religiously following the progress of the Large Hadron Collider- an ‘atom smasher’ that has been in the works for well over a decade, and was recently completed.
[See my previous post on this: http://famousallison.blogspot.com/2008/06/earth-to-become-hot-dead-clump.html ]
This morning was the initial start up of the machine that is reputed to have a one in a billion chance of turning Earth into a ‘hot dead clump’ or a black hole. This is monumentally cool.
Well, apparently our game of atomic roulette landed in our favor; Earth has survived to see another day and who knows what new dimensions we may discover with this new technology. Go science!
Read more here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc.collider/index.html
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