{"id":509,"date":"2008-09-10T22:52:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T21:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2008-09-14T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T15:15:27","slug":"has-the-lhc-destroyed-the-world-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Has the LHC destroyed the world yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"
In case you’ve blanked news out for the day, the Large Hadron Collider, the LHC, was turned on today. It’s taken 30 years and some silly number of billions of pounds to make a really big ring so boffins can make streams of protons hit each other at light speed then see what happens. I did write in with a suggestion that they shine two torches at each other, but they never wrote back. I would even have supplied the batteries.<\/p>\n
Anyway, apparently the amount of energy used is likely to create a Higgs Boson particle, which somehow gives all other particles mass (although exactly how or why I really don’t know). Then again, it might not. What this boils down to is that a load of guys underground in Europe are going to perhaps make a very small black hole. They insist that this is completely safe, which it probably is, but that doesn’t stop everyone else wondering if they are about to destroy the world, which brings me to the point of this..<\/p>\n
In case you need to check if the LHC has destroyed the world, there is now a convenient website that is monitoring the situation and allows you to check:<\/p>\n