LHC Fun

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I'm sorry that I didn't post anything about the Large Hadron Collider starting up on Wednesday. This is an exciting time for high energy physics, even for those of us without direct ties to the experiment. I'm sure lots of you have been following the whole story (Brian Greene's NYT article is a good start), from the cool science the LHC may illuminate to the crackpots filing lawsuits because they're afraid the machine will create black holes that will engulf the Earth.

On the off chance that you haven't seen them, here are a handful of LHC-related tidbits that I've enjoyed recently:

• I showed the LHC Rap in class on Tuesday. I think they enjoyed it.


• For the paranoid, hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com. (Beware of cheap knockoffs! Whois says that the similar hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com was registered later; their answers may be less reliable.)


• To see the very latest, watch some webcams in and around the LHC. Maybe if you watch long enough, you'll see the Higgs!

Good stuff, good stuff. (And really, those webcams are worth checking out.)

Comments

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Hot damn, that was the best webcam show I've ever seen!