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...world's largest particle accelerator was successfully fired up today for an experiment many predict will fundamentally alter man's understanding of the cosmos. When it reaches full power later this year, the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory in Geneva will send beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile underground track at a rate of 11,245 circuits a second - a miniscule fraction less than the speed of light - smash them together and then sift through the debris of explosions that replicate the conditions of the Big Bang. The experiment, which has been beset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Collider Might Discover | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...Sept. 10, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) laboratory in Geneva will switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - a $6 billion particle accelerator that will send beams of protons careening around a 17-mile underground ring, crash them into one another to re-create the immediate aftereffects of the Big Bang, and then monitor the debris in the hopes of learning more about the origins and workings of the universe. Next week marks a low-power run of the circuit, and scientists hope to start smashing atoms at full power by the end of the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collider Triggers End-of-World Fears | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...Wagner, along with Luis Sancho, petitioned for a temporary restraining order against the United States Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in order to stop the building and operating of CERN’s new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The reason for halting the construction the LHC is quite simple: the LHC, when normally functioning may lead to the destruction of the entire earth...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: The Big Bang | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...single particle responsible for imparting mass to all things - a speck so precious it has come to be known as the "God particle." The scientific term for it is the Higgs boson, and to find it physicists are counting on the most powerful particle accelerator ever constructed: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, a 17-mile underground circuit that took 25 years to plan and $6 billion to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higgs Boson: A Ghost in the Machine | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...studying such “fruitless” unscientific things as “The p-adic and mod p Local Langlands Correspondence,” “Microelectronic circuitry,” “string relations,” base DNA lesions, “Hadron colliders,” and “the physics of granular materials.” What feminist nonsense...

Author: By Isaias Chaves | Title: Lacaria’s Column Lacked Both Logic and Politeness | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

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