creating the big bang

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built to smash protons moving at 99.999999% of the speed of light into each other and so recreate conditions a fraction of a second after the big bang. The LHC experiments will try and work out what happened.

The facility plans to circulate the first beams in May 2008. First collisions at high energy are expected mid-2008 with the first results from the experiments soon after.



Critics have filed a lawsuit to delay the start up of the LHC to ensure it does not inadvertently create a black hole that could destroy the Earth. See - MSNBC.

I don't know whether to laugh or feel relieved.

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