Large Hadron Collider Activated, Earth Still Safe from Black Holes
Yup. That big-ass particle accelerator in the Swiss-French border was turned on earlier. And against what all the doomsayers say, there’s no black hole in the Earth’s place.
At the very least, Switzerland and France are still on the globe.
Well, considering the test for today only consisted of sending a beam in one direction. They plan to send another in the opposite direction tomorrow, so no collisions yet. The Large Hadron Collider was built to enable physicists to recreate the events during the Big Bang–the beginning of the known universe–albeit in “small scale.” The information to be gathered from collisions will hopefully provide inside into dark matter and dark energy (dark in the sense that we don’t know squat about the other composition of the universe) and moreso into the uh, dynamics, of the creation of the universe.
It’s a good day to be a physicist today (or at the very least a physics geek).
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