Large Hadron Collider.

Sorry for a break in the Tea posts but I thought I would do my bit for Geek-dom and music by posting a good description about what CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is all about. I don’t know about you but it seems a bit confusing to me. Let’s see what Wikipedia has to say about it..

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider…

Info via Wikipedia:

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams, of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV/particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV/nucleus.

The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesised Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry. It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (570 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

On 10 September 2008, the proton beams were successfully circulated in the main ring of the LHC for the first time. On 19 September 2008, the operations were halted due to a serious fault between two superconducting bending magnets. Due to the resulting damage and additional safety features being added, the LHC is scheduled to be operational again no sooner than September 2009…

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How about now? Make more sense? No? Well, At least it’s more entertaining!

I now return you to your regularly scheduled tea posts… By the way, while writing this, I was enjoying a boyant and flavorful cup of Iced Lipton’s, boiled from one of those Family sized bags… Hey, it  has 105mg of Protective Antioxidants in EVERY Serving!