Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Cool, big, expensive science

They turned on the Large Hadron Collider today! I love it that pure science still finds a place and funding in this world.


"We will be able to see deeper into matter than ever before," said Dr Tara Shears, a particle physicist at the University of Liverpool.

"We will be looking at what the Universe was made of billionths of a second after the Big Bang. That is amazing, that really is fantastic."

The LHC should answer one very simple question: What is mass?

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