I couldn't believe my ears driving around site earlier listening to the ABC talking about Doomasady at 1830 local time tonight.
For those of you (if any suich folks exist) who do not know - tonight our time, (being Australian Eastern Std Time) engineers will attempt to circulate a beam of particles around the 27km-long underground tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The machine, whihc cost in teh vicinity of 5 billion pounds is designed to smash particles together with cataclysmic force, revealing signs of new physics in the wreckage.
This will allegedly re-create conditions in the Universe moments after the Big Bang.
A small (but obviously very vocal) group of people believe our world will be sucked into extinction (some have even sent death threats). The majority of us, however, won't be losing any sleep.
CERN researchers have declared the final synchronization test a success and says, "The first attempt to circulate a beam in the LHC will be made this Wednesday, Sept. 10 at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV). The start up time will be between
(9:00 to 18:00 Zurich Time) with live webcasts provided at webcast.cern.ch tonight."
Go to this site to link into the you tube video -
http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/tech_talk/2008/08/switzerlands_nerdcore_scene.html
IT is great fun and tongue in cheek - just the thing to help explain experimental particle physics...
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