Dark Roasted Blend: Time Machine: CERN's Large Hadron Collider

I've seen bits of shows about this here and there and was wow'd before, but holy fack I can't wait for the first experiment. This is basically Stephen Hawking's holy grail, he's been working his entire adult life searching for an understanding of the universe at the moment of the big bang... and it could become reality in less than 2 months

- temperatures generated: more than 1000,000 times hotter than the sun's core
- superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space

I was introduced to the LHC project about a decade ago and was highly excited as I was expanding my knowledge of quantum physics. We have learned a lot since those times, for example string theory was been filled out quite a bit. I'm interested in the validation some of these tests may provide, and hope that it may provide some new insights.

I also hope that these high velocity/energy collisions don't start a reaction that cant be stopped, but some people had the same concerns about the atomic bomb so I'm not losing any sleep over it.

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weeeeird. I just started re-reading Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" last night. I'll definitely have to check this out.

So if I read all that correctly, it means those guys estimate an 11-25% chance it could destroy the planet?

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