Large Hadron Collider activation ... not yet !!

Re my previous post on this topic I notice this morning that the clock which was counting down and had reached about 1 day has now been reset to 31 days ... I wonder why?

Somehere below the Swiss/French border ...

... there lies the most powerful machine thing in the world ... the Large Hadron Collider ...



Okay, so you have no idea what this is but billions of your pounds or dollars or euros have gone into building it and this is what it is:

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe.

Now what is significant about telling you about it now (before it could be too late and you get swallowed up into an absolutely tiny or rather massive black hole) is that according to the countdown timer on the LHC Countdown website there are about 2 days and 7 hours .... rather depending on when you are reading this ... before they switch it on with a vengeance to go searching for the illusive and exclusively reclusive Higgs Boson, better known as the 'God particle'.

After this allocated period of time scientists (and I hope the rest of us) will be able to see the universe born again and again and again about 30 million times a second.

That should keep them busy for a bit !

“We are now on the endgame,” said Lyn Evans, of Cern, who has been in charge of the Large Hadron Collider. ... just not too sure that the definition of 'end game' is one I am confident about.

Its worth having a read of the countdown page and if you have any paranoias then it will certainly manage to feed them.

Hope I can add a PS to this post in about 3 days time ... I do hope these physicists know what they are doing.



Of course this could just be another web hoax ... couldn't it?