World's biggest physics tool debuts in Europe
A massive particle accelerator that’s meant to re-create what the universe was like shortly after the Big Bang will begin operating in Europe today after years of expensive construction and design.
Engineers will send protons through the $6 billion Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile, ring-shaped tunnel 300 feet beneath the ground on the border of Switzerland and France.
When it’s fully operational, the collider will be capable of producing 1 billion particle collisions per second – mash-ups that will be recorded and analyzed by high-speed computers and distributed around the world.
...and on a side note...there is a possibility it could generate a blackhole and the earth would get turned inside-out!...;)
