Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Large Hadron Collider


Originally uploaded by Arsmor
If you read the book by Dan Brown, Angels and Demons, you too probably headed to Google to try to sort fact from fiction.... I was amazed by the stuff I read about CERN and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Well they successfully tested the first beam of protons today, and the world did not end (and I didn't find anything that said they had created "anti-matter" that could destroy the world).

This machine is indeed a wonder of scientific engineering. If you want to see a model of it (the biggest machine in the world), have a look at Joey Wade's 3D diagram and models showing the LHC floating above its actual location so you can see how it looks in Google Earth. Get the Google Earth 3D model here (KMZ file).

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