Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The Large Hadron Collider is online


The descent into the New Dark Age will not always follow a direct line. From time to time there will be exceptions when modern society manages to do somthing enormously positive. Today just such an exception has occurred. Whilst a bit anticlimactic (particles rushed around only in one direction, so...no collisions), the Large Hardon Collider went live today.

Thankfully the protests of the ignorant who feared the formation of a blackhole that would swallow the earth were ignored.

The best educated discussion I can find on it is at the ironically Bad Astronomy Blog.

Now, if we could just pull off something this incredible in the US....

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