Today... We Smash Atoms and Risk a Black Hole on Earth
Scientists have just turned on a machine that could forever change the way we think about physics, and possibly even trigger a black hole here on earth. The “Large Hadron Collider” (or LHC) is the largest and most complicated machine ever created, costing nearly 6 billion dollars, and taking 25 years to build. It is 17 miles in circumference and located 300 feet below French and Swiss soil. It is basically a circular cannon that runs in a massive loop, where protons will be accelerated to 99.9% the speed of light in opposite directions, only to collide with one another at 800 million times per second, in an attempt to recreate the “The Big Bang”. The first particles were successfully accelerated this morning at 10:28am… and scientists remain on schedule for the first collisions to occur in a few weeks.
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