Atom Smasher Sounds So Sci Fi
I wrote and posted this yesterday I thought. Anyway, I caught the home page of Yahoo to find this article that made me remember all the Saturdays I spent watching Sci Fi, really bad Sci Fi in retrospect, that included some sort of contraption said to be an atom smasher used for nefarious purposes.
Now to the delight of scientists worldwide, the largest atom smasher ever comes on line this Wednesday. It will supposedly tell us what makes up the universe, and put the big bang theory to the test. How very George Jetson.
Yahoo news reported: “The multibillion-dollar Large Hadron Collider will explore the tiniest particles and come ever closer to re-enacting the big bang, the theory that a colossal explosion created the universe.” The Collider is located at Fermilab outside Chicago and is the U.S. contingent of the overall project called CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
While this process sounds promising, “some skeptics fear [it] could create micro ‘black holes’ and endanger the planet.” They’ve filed suit in U.S. District Court in Hawaii and in the European Court of Human Rights to stop the project. At a price tag of over $4 billion dollars, it’s full steam ahead, come on there is no stopping it. Cross your fingers on the black hole theory. And if it is a success, it promises to be awesome. We have that on good word because a Michigan State graduate at CERN, Kate McAlpine, 23, says, “The things that it discovers will rock you in the head.” She means rock as in her video clip that has attracted more than a million views on YouTube. It’s called, ” Large Hadron Rap.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/big_bang_machine