Thursday, September 4, 2008

Biggest Physics Experiment on Earth

"An international team of over 2,000 scientists, led by Professor Tejinder Virdee from Imperial College London's Department of Physics is stepping up preparations for the world's largest ever physics experiment, starting next year at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland."




Those people at CERN seemed to be very free and can afford to make rap in their spare time. Wondering if any rap's going to emerge outta XXX anytime soon :p

If you had read Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, you couldn't have missed the backdrop on which he had based the novel upon. I completed the novel about 3yrs back and I actually did googled CERN back then. I've never expected that the "Anti-Matter" thingy that Dan Brown had in his novel is actually a reality in the making! You gotta read his novels if you have the time and energy to do so. Don't need to read all, just "Da Vinci Code" & "Angels & Demons" will do. Actually, its recommended that you read "Angels & Demons" before you proceed to "Da Vinci Code" as they are somehow vaguely related.

Before you bash me with things such as the above 2 novels being anti-Christ, I would like to clarify that as long as you read it with the mentality of reading a storybook, I'm sure your faith, no matter how strong or weak, will not be shakened.

Coming back to the topic proper, CERN is experimenting with re-creating the Big-Bang. Should anything go wrong along the way, the facility will most likely blow up, with the potential fallout (nuclear?) affecting hundreds of thousands of innocent lives around the vicinity. However, if the experiment goes well, the potential benefits to the human race could be in-measurable....

World running out of Iron ore, no problem... CERN can produce some!

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