~Hadron Collider~

Hello everyone and today I thought I'd bring a little science to you. As you may or may not know the Hadron Collider, which is a particle accelerator, was fired off sucessfully yesterday in Switzerland. This 9 billion dollar project is meant to smash atoms together by shooting beams of particles (protons) down a tunnel located underground between the borders of France and Switzerland, to simulate the conditions of the Big Bang, a millionith of a second after it started, which was the catalyst for the creation of this universe. Now, for the skeptics, this is a scary concept, they feel we're playing with stuff out of mankind's hands and theorize that by firing off this canon, we will evidently create a black hole right here on our planet, thus destroying ourselves. Although, for the scientists this is a huge achievement, and they do not seem concerned by black holes.

The potential hopes of this project is this:

"They say the experiment has the potential to confirm theories that physicists have been working on for decades including the possible existence of extra dimensions. They also hope to find a theoretical particle called the Higgs boson -- sometimes referred to as the "God particle," which has never been detected, but would help explain why matter has mass."

-CNN.com Elizabeth Landau

And that is science for today from me. For those who are are interested in science, especially physics, I hope this was enjoyable, for others who find it boring, just don't mind it then. ^^
If you want to read more about the Hadron Collider, google it or read the article I got the information of here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc.collider/index.html

~Rin