This morning they fired up the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and started bashing the heck out of protons and it worked.This is the largest experiment ever.

They physics geeks are beside themselves and trying to contain their excitement.

They think the data produced in these collisions will help us understand – among other things – the first moments of the universe.

The last two attempts to get the thing going failed so it was a rather pressurized environment there at CERN this morning.

But now they are shooting beams through the underground network of tunnels and producing collisions and new particles that will give us new information about our world.
The models are beautiful.

These experiments will tell us about the formation of the matter, dark matter and the extra dimensions that may exist around us.

It is a very exciting time.

« Cleaning out the books to make room for new ones
What is the precious symbol for anniversary #18? »


This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at 9:46 am and is filed under beauty, geeky things. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.