Wednesday, September 10, 2008
God Says "Gesundheit"
The Large Hadron Collider is up and running!
Some of the first protons to be accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider smashed into an absorbing device called a collimator at near light speed, producing a shower of particle debris recorded in this image. About an hour later the beam completed a full circuit of the 27km tunnel, to cheers from physicists (Image: CERN)
New Scientist's "whistlestop tour" of the LHC (video) is worth a peek for those interested.
Poor Superconducting Super Collider. While the Large Hadron Collider is ramping up to make Higgs bosons, you're starring in Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. *sniff*
