So, we’re still here. We weren’t sucked into a man-made black hole. It turns out that the debut of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider(LHC) was only really getting the ion beam to go around the entire 17 miles in one direction at a time. Apparently, it usually takes about a day to get it lined up just right to work – [ Read More ]
Archive for September, 2008
Some of you know I’m a little nuts. But do I really need to pass that on to my kids? About an hour ago, Phoenix said something about when a kid dies, he goes to heaven. Me: His soul will go, but his body will stay. Phoenix: Yeah. What is a soul? Me: It is who you are. This body [ Read More ]
You may or may not have heard about tomorrow’s HUGE event. Physicists have been waiting for this day for many years. BBC Radio 4 is calling it Big Bang Day and they’ll be covering it all day. That is… if the day goes on. Will ALICE go down the hole and bring the whole earth with her? ALICE stands for [ Read More ]