Monday, September 15, 2008, posted by Q6 at 5:02 AM
Although they haven't started using it to smash protons or slice cheese or play solitaire or anything, the good folks over at CERN have started up the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. No one got sucked into anything, space/time didn't rip open, and clocks didn't start suddenly moving backward. We made it.



There are some really cool photos of the LHC on the web. (You can tell that these particular photos were taken after construction was completed, because there's no styrofoam pieces or packing popcorn anywhere.) Hopefully this technology will uncover the secrets of quarks, gluons, and other subatomic particles that will one day make you iPod even smaller.


[Footnote: Whenever I hear about the HRC I always think of this, and then I wanna bust out my DVDs and watch more.]