The LHC was fired up today and it’s first successful test run went with only a small hiccup. Yay! Oh, for those of you not into physics the LHC is the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. It’s the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It also takes the award for world’s most expensive scientific experiment according to Newsweek.
Here’s a pic of the scientists all agog. the LHC is trying to recreate the Big Bang in an effort to find the Higgs Boson so that we may understand why things have mass.
European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists applaud at the Cern's control center.
Look at all those geeks! I love it! However, I am distressed that there were only two women in the scene. Gah! More women in science already!
Here’s even more visual fun…
The rings of the LHC with the detectors ALICE, ATLAS & Bldg B highlighted.
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