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Large Hadron Collider Link Round-Up

10 Sep 2008  Science

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More XKXD shenanigans…

  • A useful tools for the paranoid: Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet?
  • The BBC reports that the “Big Bang experiment” has started well.
  • Get a first-hand view of the end of the world… I mean, the First Beam via live webcast.
  • Has Dr. Gordon Freeman infiltrated the Large Hadron Collider? More importantly, will the LHC trigger an unexpected “resonance cascade?!” Wait. Is that a crowbar?!!
  • If you ever get curious about what all those impressive LHC photos are, Knowledge is Power has explained many of them.
  • In light of this landmark event, Scientific America asks the hard questions, such as, “How long would it take the LHC to defrost a pizza?“
  • Popular Mechanics actually steps in to inject a little science in 5 Things You Need to Know About the Large Hadron Collider Now.
  • Stephen Hawking explains why the Large Hadron Collider is vital for humanity, and no, it’s not so we can repel aliens.
  • The LHC claimed its first fatality before it even went live when a sixteen year old girl committed suicide in fear of the apocalypse its activation would bring. Let’s hope this isn’t like the suicides at the beginning of those Omen flicks. (Que ominous organ music.)
  • To ease your fears, Maxim magazine, leader in all things science, share 8 Fictional Doomsday Devices More Dangerous Than the Large Hadron Collider.
  • You can check out even more webcam footage, this time of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment.
  • You know that the LHC is totally legit, cuz it’s got its own Twitter Feeder
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