That's it, folks!! Goodbye and good luck. We're gonna be sucked into a black hole today and never surface. Hehe. OK, maybe not but the scientists out there are going to flick the switch on a giant machines that will try to create the Big Bang theory.
To the geeks out there who wish to learn what the hell is a hadron collider, go [A href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider"]here[/A]. (wikipedia)
[FONT size=5]Scientists In State, Worldwide Await Results Of Large Hadron Collider[/FONT]
Scientists in Connecticut and around the world will be watching closely today when their colleagues in Switzerland flip the switch on what is being touted as the world's grandest experiment in particle physics.
If all goes according to plan, the Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator underground near Geneva, could re-create the very moment 13 billion years ago when scientists believe a tremendous explosion known as the "big bang" created the universe.
"It could be the most exciting thing since Einstein," said Yale Professor Paul Tipton, part of a multinational research team, including physicists at Yale and [A class=taxInlineTagLink id=HOE15 title="Fairfield University" href="vny!://www.courant.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/fairfield-university-HOE15.topic"]Fairfield University[/A], that has spent years designing and building the collider.
Data collected in the coming months has the potential to lead to the discovery of new dimensions, a new understanding of time and space, or advances that could someday be applied to fields such as medicine or energy generation, said Tipton and other scientists.
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Good morning miss Lise! Isnt it like 5am local back home right now? What are you doing awake at that god awful hour?
Ive been watching it on CNN Europe live since they started and turned it on. I had no clue they were doing it soon. It looks interesting.. but will take a long time to proceed to further steps from teh initial ones. Some of the papers here locally are saying that we are all going to die in a black hole. Kinda funny really. Hey.. whatever happened to teh US built one? I assume it isnt turned on yet? Or not as publicised?
It was closer to 6am when I wrote that comment. Thanks Russ, it's good to hear from you.
And yep, we're still here. No black hole plunging the world into chaos? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
So the End of the World Bash 2008 is off!!! nooooo that party was going to be wicked!
Guess we gotta wait till the 2012 end of the world party.