You’d better read this today, because it’s possible the world will end tomorrow.Ok I’m just kidding,but a few people will be holding their breath when the “The Large Hadron Collider, man’s biggest machine fires up tomorrow.<\/p>\n
At about 9.30 am local time, scientists will introduce a beam of protons into the 18-mile-long circular particle accelerator, buried some 300 feet in the earth and straddling the Franco-Swiss border just outside Geneva, beginning what should be a remarkable career. Some 300 journalists from around the world will be on hand to watch the switch being thrown, accompanied by the thousands of scientists who will make the LHC a good part of their life’s work. However, opponents fear the machine, which will smash pieces of atoms together at high speed and generate temperatures of more than a trillion degrees centigrade, may create a mini-black hole that could tear the earth apart.<\/p>\n
James Gillies, spokesman for CERN, insisted that despite the huge amounts of energy the Large Hadron Collider will produce, it posed no risk to the safety of the planet. World\u00c2\u00a0renowned\u00c2\u00a0Prof Stephen Hawking said the \u00c2\u00a34.4bn machine, in which scientists are about to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang, is “vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out.”<\/p>\n
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You’d better read this today, because it’s possible the world will end tomorrow.Ok I’m just kidding,but a few people will be holding their breath when the “The Large Hadron Collider, man’s biggest machine fires up tomorrow. At about 9.30 am … Continue reading