August will be an exciting time as the Hadron Collider comes online. As CNN reports there are those who wish to keep us in the past and will always stand in the way of progress.
Critics of the LHC filed a lawsuit in a Hawaiian court in March seeking
to block its startup, alleging that there was "a significant risk that
... operation of the Collider may have unintended consequences which
could ultimately result in the destruction of our planet."
But people are sick of living under the rules established 2k years ago by some book and it's interpretation by a man in a dress with a funny hat. More people are holding a bible in one hand and a science textbook in the other. More people are reading the texts left out of the canon.
This isn't 325AD and the Coucil of Nicaea is long dead.
This thing could shake the foundations of science and as John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist at CERN, it's going to do it by reproducing "...what nature does every second, what it has been doing for billions of years,"
The largest scientific experiment in history, isn't expected to begin
test runs until August, and ramping up to full power could take months.
But once it is working, it is expected to produce some startling
findings.
Scientists plan to hunt for signs of the invisible "dark matter" and
"dark energy" that make up more than 96 percent of the universe, and
hope to glimpse the elusive Higgs boson, a so-far undiscovered particle
thought to give matter its mass.
I say fire that thing up and lets have the biggest tailgater in history. I'll bring the hot dogs?
Critics of the LHC filed a lawsuit in a Hawaiian court in March seeking
to block its startup, alleging that there was "a significant risk that
... operation of the Collider may have unintended consequences which
could ultimately result in the destruction of our planet."
But people are sick of living under the rules established 2k years ago by some book and it's interpretation by a man in a dress with a funny hat. More people are holding a bible in one hand and a science textbook in the other. More people are reading the texts left out of the canon.
This isn't 325AD and the Coucil of Nicaea is long dead.
This thing could shake the foundations of science and as John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist at CERN, it's going to do it by reproducing "...what nature does every second, what it has been doing for billions of years,"
The largest scientific experiment in history, isn't expected to begin
test runs until August, and ramping up to full power could take months.
But once it is working, it is expected to produce some startling
findings.
Scientists plan to hunt for signs of the invisible "dark matter" and
"dark energy" that make up more than 96 percent of the universe, and
hope to glimpse the elusive Higgs boson, a so-far undiscovered particle
thought to give matter its mass.
I say fire that thing up and lets have the biggest tailgater in history. I'll bring the hot dogs?
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