Well maybe not everyone, but those closest to me know of my obsession with NASA, space science in general, and all things relating to exploration of the cosmos. So, after finding yesterday that an article about CERN's Large Hadron Collider was published on the morning of 9/11, I woke up this morning to see that CNN is reporting that a major first test for the LHC is being conducted tomorrow. 10 billion dollars and 25 years after planning began, the 17 mile long tunnel, buried 300 feet underground near Geneva, Switzerland is ready to circulate a beam of protons. My capacity to understand anything other than the jist of what all of this means is limited, but I do know the goal is eventually to simulate the environment that immediately followed the Big Bang. It's amazing stuff, and don't doubt that I will keep everyone up-to-date on the findings as I read them. The first link is the CNN article, the second is the experiment's homepage.
Coolest. Thing. EVER.
The Atlas Experiment
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