Friday, December 01, 2006

Learning to Live with Small Black Holes - Conclusion: Not Easy

The last magnet was put in place in the monster Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
Woohoo! Let’s make some baby black holes! Or some new universes!
Hopefully they won’t be populated with idiots.

http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/12/01/0046219.shtml

Gotta see these pics…
Now THIS is a machine.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos2/
http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-hi/0611011_03.jpg


A “Time Projection Chamber”…SERIOUSLY!…I’m sure this will be used only for “good”
http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-alice//tpc-2006-003.jpg

It’s about 13 MILES in diameter.
http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/images/cern-photos/CE0077M.jpg

http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-si/0107015_01.jpg

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