You may have heard some chatter awhile back about a black-hole swallowing the earth and ending human existence.  Nothing too important, hardly worth the time to read, right?  Well, here is the beautiful machine responsible for all the talk: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

It’s the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in existence and was built to smash protons together really, really fast.  It’s purpose is to find the last particle predicted to exist under the Standard Model of physics: the Higgs boson.  It could help scientists answer the last remaining questions about the Standard Model and even discover the extra dimensions predicted by string theory.

Each time it’s turned on, it creates a tiny black hole that almost instantly disappears, so the chance is incredibly remote that it will swallow the earth.  Still, it’s not comforting to know that CERN has had problems with hackers roaming freely in the LHC’s closed computer network.

Here is a link to a fake live feed of the LHC.

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1. mmfiore Says:
   March 10th, 2009 at 6:18 am

   There is a new Theory of Everything Breakthrough. It exposes the flaws in both Quantum Theory and String Theory. Please see: Theory of Super Relativity at http:\\www.superrelativity.org
   Einstein was right!