Entries with tag "lhc"

I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade in my lifetime, much less create one

Posted on August 3, 2008 at 4:32 AM in 'Things I Like' with tags 'physics, lhc, cern, superconductors'

I've been reading a lot about the Large Hadron Collider lately, since it's so close to finally being turned on after decades of planning and 13 years of construction. Some people worry that it will create a mini-black hole that will swallow the Earth, though there have been repeated, exhaustive studies performed to disprove those fears. Just like it was safe to push that mysterious crystal into the beam of the anti-matter spectrometer at Black Mesa.

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