Large Hadron Collider 4 Dummies
The Large Hadron Collider is a massive subject for smarty pants, but with recent newsworthy events that read like bad Hollywood scripts, your dumb rump should be ready to haul out this hefty topic at cocktail parties. Here's all you need to know, below.
1. There's a giant underground machine beneath the ground near Geneva, Switzerland. It has been riddled problems and has yet to be activated. Some fear when it is switched on it will create a black hole that will swallow the earth.
2. Watch the Large Hadron Rap (pictured) to get the gist of what it is about. Over five million nerds have already rocked out to it.
3. Two scientists have just proposed that the LHC is fated to be doomed because the machine is evil and the future is coming back to stop it from ever being created. Yes, just like in Back to the Future, except instead of getting McFly's parents to meet, something is trying to dismantle this machine.
4. Another physicist named Franklin Felber says that the LHC can test hyperdrive space propulsion. So, just like in Star Wars, we may soon be building our own Millennium Falcon's and opening an Arby's somewhere in M31. "Soon" as in 100 years.
5. And news just broke that one of the brilliant nuclear scientists working on the LHC was charged with plotting terrorist activities as an agent of Al Qaeda. The scientist was allegedly looking to create his own "big bang" -- he wanted to help blow up an oil refinery the size of London and had a wish list of assassination targets. Nice. Makes black holes that suck up the universe seem downright cozy.
