ALICE goes online Wednesday, I cannot explain in detail what it is, but the two links below will. Basically they have finished the 17 mile long circular track underground that will move a particle at 99.9999% of the speed of light, the closest we have ever gotten. Not only are we going to do this, but they decided to move a particle clockwise and another counterclockwise, this is an attempt to creat black matter or tiny black holes. I guess this is supposed to allow us to see how things started 1 billionth of a second after the big bang. According to foxnews there have been death threats to the scientist, trying to get this not to happen.
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So maybe I shouldn't bother doing my homework tonight?
I am thinking of raping and pillaging tonight. Maybe a little ice cream and On Golden Pond before being sucked into some black hole
Golden Pond and Ice Cream, it doesn't get more decadent than that. So I guess now that the day has come and gone we can breathe easier? or are we still in some danger of being sucked into a black hole?
The particles wont collide for a couple of months, but we are still achieving 99.9999% of the speed of light. I am excited
Found this lovely article today:
'what happens if you fall in a black hole':
http://www.slate.com/id/2199664/?gt1=38001
Bloody fucking awesome, sounds more euphoric than drowning. The scariest thing about this, is we are trying to create a galaxy within a galaxy.
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