When subatomic particles collide
FOURTEEN billion years ago, give or take, the universe was so hot that not even a single atom could survive. It took 300,000 years before the blinding energy of the Big Bang cooled enough to form matter and start the long process of making the stars and galaxies around us.
Fast forward to early 2008. Deep underground, between the Jura mountain range in France and Lake Geneva in Switzerland, scientists will smash tiny particles together to generate the kind of energy that ruled the first few moments after creation.
No one is quite sure what will happen, but everyone interested in the fundamental nature of the universe is excited by the promise of finding out.
With power never seen before in an "atom smasher", the collider will re-create the conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang and, most tantalisingly of all, perhaps create mini black holes and reveal the existence of extra dimensions of space and parallel universes.
okay, look, i read comic books and watch teevee and nothing good comes from other dimensions...does anyone not remember anniilus or the dangers of black holes or alternate dimensions/realities crossing into ours?
but hey, i'm ready for some doom, esp. of the sci-fi variety...
doooooooom!!1!!11
FOURTEEN billion years ago, give or take, the universe was so hot that not even a single atom could survive. It took 300,000 years before the blinding energy of the Big Bang cooled enough to form matter and start the long process of making the stars and galaxies around us.
Fast forward to early 2008. Deep underground, between the Jura mountain range in France and Lake Geneva in Switzerland, scientists will smash tiny particles together to generate the kind of energy that ruled the first few moments after creation.
No one is quite sure what will happen, but everyone interested in the fundamental nature of the universe is excited by the promise of finding out.
With power never seen before in an "atom smasher", the collider will re-create the conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang and, most tantalisingly of all, perhaps create mini black holes and reveal the existence of extra dimensions of space and parallel universes.
okay, look, i read comic books and watch teevee and nothing good comes from other dimensions...does anyone not remember anniilus or the dangers of black holes or alternate dimensions/realities crossing into ours?
but hey, i'm ready for some doom, esp. of the sci-fi variety...
doooooooom!!1!!11
mat7thew:
i should update this sometime