large hadron collider

They fired up the Large Hadron Col­lider this morn­ing. There are two things I enjoy about the LHC:

  1. The sci­ence involved is almost com­pletely beyond the com­pre­hen­sion of the gen­eral pub­lic, yet they were able to build it anyway.
  2. The sci­ence involved is so obscure that the media has cho­sen to focus instead on the whacko “dooms­day” scenarios.

The Inter­nets were down in the office this morn­ing. Turns out the LHC was not respon­si­ble. (Hi, Marc!)

3 Comments

  1. amanda September 10, 2008

    i didn’t know scott took blog requests.

  2. Marc September 10, 2008

    I fig­ured he’d be blog­ging about it any­way and would have some­thing cool to say, such as obser­va­tion #2.

  3. MRhé September 10, 2008

    I’d let you col­lide with my large hadrons any day of the week, Scottoway ;)

    xoxo

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