Showing posts with label Large Hadron Collider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Large Hadron Collider. Show all posts

Monday, September 22, 2008

LHC Leaking Helium and Dodgy Transformers

According to news recently the Large Hadron Collider has been shut down by a helium leak and a transformer glitch. I can't help it but I get this enduring image of Optimus Prime with the voice of Minnie Mouse exclaiming 'Smack my glitch up!' 
Help me! My reference points are melting!

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

World Ends Wednesday. Put It In Your Diary

Isn't science brilliant! The finest brains of the human race never tire of smashing things up. Pulling them apart to see what happens. 

Pull the wings off flies in the classroom and you're sent to bed without your tea, do it in a laboratory and your liable to be lined up for a Nobel Prize or two. No wonder we're confused.

Tomorrow they fire up the Large Hadron Collider with the aim of discovering fundamental particles foremost of which is the Higgs boson. Some doom merchants are convinced that this will destroy the world as we know it and some cynics may say this would be no bad thing - bring it on.
See you tomorrow - maybe.