No place like the center of an sub-atomic explosion
Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Monkey King
Here’s to micro-blackholes and the end of all things, couldn’t have happened to a better people.
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Large Hadron Collider Begins Testing | Wired Science from Wired.com
CERN will fire the first test beam through one of the particle accelerator’s sectors.“It’s, ‘Let’s see what happens,’ ” Judy Jackson, head of the Office Communications at Fermilab, told Popular Mechanics. “It’s a very complex machine. This is a step towards getting ready.”
Then, on September 10th, a full-power beam will travel through the accelerator’s entire 17 miles of tunnels, reaching up to 99.99 percent of the speed of light. And finally, assuming all goes well, the first real science experiments will begin some time in October.
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