It seems from the general theme from the comments to my earlier post is a large dose of scepticism about the hysterical way some sections of the media has reported Cern's Large Hadron Collider being switched on today, but have some faith... I think the BBC has reported it well and has given today's events a lot of prominence. I listened this morning to the Today's programme's coverage of the LHC being switched on, admittedly it was the most riveting radio, but it shows the value that Radio 4 has placed on the event with its Big Bang day.
It's latest updates show no collisions so far as these may take up to a week to happen. So I guess we'll be hearing a lot more from Cern over the coming months. If you seriously want to learn more then check Cern's mini site on the LHC.
As a colleague Colin Barras from our sister title New Scientist wrote in July, when the findings from Cern starting coming out "it really will rock your head".
It's latest updates show no collisions so far as these may take up to a week to happen. So I guess we'll be hearing a lot more from Cern over the coming months. If you seriously want to learn more then check Cern's mini site on the LHC.
As a colleague Colin Barras from our sister title New Scientist wrote in July, when the findings from Cern starting coming out "it really will rock your head".
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Yay! Soon the collisions will start for real and we can all wear our I Survived the Large Hadron Collider Experiment T-Shirts :)
Posted by Andrew | September 11, 2008 1:04 AM
Posted on September 11, 2008 01:04