In case you haven’t noticed, the world hasn’t ended yet. Which is good I guess, particularly since it’s despite the LHC (which stands for Large Hadron Collider, apparently) having been switched on this morning at CERN.
Everybody’s celebrating, even Google, with one of their famous doodles (uhm … does “please do not use them elsewhere” mean I’m not supposed to show it here?):
Google LHC Doodle
Onwards, a few explanations why it’s just a little bang and not a big bang CERN is producing, and an explanation why there won’t be dangerous black holes, and a less science-ey one too. So, none of the other particle colliders will kill us any time soon, either.
Hopefully.
Update 13:41: Very nice site that answers all questions, via kuschti @ Twitter.
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Feel the source, Luke.
Update 14:02: For up to date news, follow CERN on Twitter.
September 10th, 2008 @ 13:11
Bah, the LHC will only start to produce black holes when they start doing some “real” experiments. At the moment nothing more happens than some few protons getting dizzy. So we have a little longer to live on this doomed planet…
September 10th, 2008 @ 13:19
Heh, true enough
At least the CERN guys think we’re safe:
http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=20&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=35065
September 10th, 2008 @ 13:56
what a wonder – the guys from mühleberg & co. think also that we are safe
September 10th, 2008 @ 13:58
Yeah, who’d have thought…