I am really, truly, and exceptionally excited.
The Large Hadron Collider is schedule to come online next month. If you don’t know what it is, you should. Here’s a link to the official site. You can also look it up on wikipedia, which gives accurate information in a more focused, reader friendly way.
The New York Times has some more pictures of the experimental aparati.
There has been controversy around safety concerns, which apt and reputable commissions and scientist have thwarted, but truthfully, I hope they accidentally destroy the planet. I’m not pretending to know anything at all about partical physics in any more than a theoretical sense, in fact, I don’t even know how they have managed a temperature of 1.79Kelvin. That is intimadatingly cold.
