The Large Hadron Collider at the CERN in Europe will open for business ,errrr – research tomorrow. Fourteen years in the makin
- He is ready to race those particles
g, the LHC will start busting protons with hopes of finding the secret decoder ring to the universe inside.
Lawsuits abound about how these ‘vicious’ scientist might create an all consuming blackhole and end the presidentail election early. One of the funnier descriptions of possibilities to come out of smashing particles together is the creation of ’strangelets’
He also is concerned that when the collider creates a soup of free-flying quarks, some of those quarks might recombine in a hazardous way — creating a stable, negatively charged “strangelet” that could turn everything it touches into more strangelets.
To give you an idea of what Strangelets have teh power of doing check out these before and after videos:
Before LHC is turned on:
After LHC is turned on: