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LHC signs of life

Very good news from over in Geneva. The Large Hadron Collider is showing some positive vitals signs. This is wonderful news for CERN, who have had a hard time getting the LHC to even relieve itself of quantum flatulence since its failure last year.  The LHC propelled photons successfully around half the circumference of the accelerator. So if all goes well and the mysterious mishaps stay at a minimal we should see progress real soon!

I will keep you posted with quantum news and such. Make sure to check out CERN’s website also.

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The ghost of CERN’s future

Well it seems that some interesting things have been happening over at Large Hadron Collider.  Now if you haven’t heard of  the Large Hadron Collider or even CERN you need to forcibly remove your head from whatever hole it has been stuck in. If that doesn’t help check out this link.

Anyways back to the story. Apparently the LHC is supposed to start back up in December after many technical issues plagued the endeavor to try to produce an environment comparable to a few billionths of a second after the Big Bang. Some of the strange things that the LHC could find once started range anywhere from extra dimensions as narrated by String Theory – all the way to  micro black holes that evaporate almost instantaneously.  If you think that dimensions and microscopic black holes are crazy you haven’t heard anything yet.  According to Holger Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya  , two renowned Physicists, all these events and technicalities that are halting LHC and further study are the result of  the LHC being destroyed from the future. However this kind of destruction isn’t from a 6ft Govenater.  They hypothesize that the destruction is the result of the the Higgs Boson. The Higgs Boson is the prize  Physicists are looking for over at CERN.  This particle would explain how mass has been distributed in the Universe.I will write a detailed overview of the Higgs and it’s importance a little later.

For more information check out this article.