LHC Cern thing

Here's something thats been on my radar for a while, a giant hadron collider (whatever that means). It cropped up because it has the theoretical possibility of creating small black holes, and also other crazy things I don't quite understand. Somebody suggested it my start a Half-Life game in real life situation, as I think thats what originally happened in black mesa, I dont know, I don't pay that close attention to game storylines :P

Here's the main site:
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

And here's a PopularMechanic's article about how it's not going to kill us all.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4276847.html

As you might notice, they are firing this thing up on September 10th... thats better than waiting til Dec 21 2012, right? But, so if the world ends on september 11th, you'll know who it was this time... unless we are all dead from the test run.

Also, if you want to find out a bit more about what the thing does, here's a hilariously lame video the scientists made... yes it is a rap about science... awesome :P



I figured it's better to destroy the world in the name of science than in the name of war, but thats just me.