{"id":1294,"date":"2008-09-09T23:54:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T13:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2008-09-09T23:54:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T13:54:57","slug":"large-hadron-collider-tomorrow-when-the-world-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"Large hadron collider &#8211; tomorrow when the world began&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday will not be like any other normal Wednesday. At least at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) it won&#8217;t. Wednesday is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/geekdad\/2008\/09\/the-large-hadro.html\"><strong>when the large hadron collider gets switched on<\/strong><\/a>. The large what?? A great big machine for winding up very small particles very very fast and smashing them into each other. If that sounds like a rather strange thing to do, it may be. But it also may be the start of a project that could just unveil the secret of matter itself and the start of the universe from the Big Bang. <\/p>\n<p>While there have been rather fanciful stories circulating about how when the machine gets switched on, the world will be swallowed by a black hole &#8211; that, according to Dr Brian Cox, is plain nonsense. <\/p>\n<p>The LHC will be dealing with such small particles that the energy produced by the collisions would barely power a small light globe, but it may just reveal where all the universe&#8217;s energy actually comes from. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping anyhow &#8211; it&#8217;s great to see that there are still enough scientific visionaries to do big science. Good luck guys!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday will not be like any other normal Wednesday. At least at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) it won&#8217;t. Wednesday is when the large hadron collider gets switched on. The large what?? A great big machine for winding up very small particles very very fast and smashing them into each other. If that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}