Well, At Least We Weren’t Devoured By the Nuclear Chaos

Good news, everyone! The Large Hadron Collider has succesfully caused its very first high-energy particle collision. The experiment went off pretty much as planned, which means it did not create a planet-swallowing black hole nor did it rend the very fabric of space and time and create a gateway through which horrors beyond man’s reckoning would heave their rugose and Cyclopean bulks into our universe.

So that’s good.

I have written about the LHC before and even devoted a short segment on The Delivery to its latest operating woes. I am glad they’re getting something useful out of the big galoot now. High-energy physics is an exciting, and relatively new field of scientific inquiry that has, due to obvious difficulties, realied largely on pure theory and mathematics. I like that we’re going to get some observations to either confirm or refute the theories we have in hand now.

Unless, of course, we unleash Azathoth.

(via Greg Pollowitz)

Other Posts of Interest:

• Black Hole and Explosions, Oh My!
• When Science is Blind
• I Bet the Moon Men Have No Idea We’re Coming, Either.

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, Science

Category: Hey, Mr. Science Guy!