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Powering-Up the Large Hadron Collider
By Andrew Walsh on Tuesday, September 9, 2008.
Tomorrow’s a huge day for physicists. Researchers in Geneva, Switzerland, will finally flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider. The huge, underground machine is the largest, most complex device ever made, but its job is to help us understand the smallest particles known to man. Once it’s powered-up, trillions of protons will race around just shy of the speed of light, then they’ll smash into each other as scientists record the results. Rumors and speculation have spread that this device could create a black hole that would suck up our universe. But don’t worry -- all credible research shows that the chance of the world ending tomorrow is no more than it would be on any given Wednesday.
For more information on the Large Hadron Collider, click here and listen to the story we aired earlier this summer by producer Eric Molinsky.
Click here for Reuter’s “Five facts about CERN's Large Hadron Collider”
(Photo by Maximilien Brice, © CERN)
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On the bright side, if the world gets sucked into a black hole tomorrow, I won’t need to worry about the Fannie/Freddie and the stock market anymore.
Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking, too, Laura.