Well I’m going to be really busy with exams until June, so here’s something just so that it doesn’t seem like I’m neglecting this blog.
For those who are unlucky enough to have not heard yet, the LHC stands for the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest particle accelerator to have ever been built. The idea for it started in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until the mid 90s that it was agreed that it should be constructed. It throws particles together at 99.9% of the speed of light, creating a huge beam which is shot around the round shape of the collider. It will help to solve many mysteries of Physics, including the events surrounding the big bang, Higg’s Boson, which may also answer the question of what is Dark Matter? New particles may be discovered, and it’s all very exciting! Well for someone interested in Physics it is, but everyone should be aware of the huge impact this will have on our understanding of the universe. And it’s all being activated in a couple of hours.
However, they’re not doing any dangerous experiments for a couple months yet, so all the ridiculous predictions of the microscopic black holes that may be formed growing and basically killing us all, can save the worrying till then.
But really, what could be more exciting than discovering the very make up of over 80% of our universe? It’s possible, let’s wait and see what turns out. Besides, even if it goes wrong, we’ll all die before realising what happened.
On a completely different note, look!! My name has been put up for the Scholarship. It all makes it seem so real!
http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/cms/?location_id=172
See you in June! I’ll have plenty to ramble about then. Lots going on.
EDIT: Haha, they reset the timer to 53 days. The site says:
“The countdown timer was set to the 15th of May because there was no definite time given for the actual activation, recent events show that CERN wont be dividing by zero until much later on in the year, so now the countdown timer will be reset again and will be continually tweaked to go by the latest info that CERN are releasing.
So sorry to disappoint you all, but you wont be dying tomorrow.”
