Tag: LHC

You've totally heard about this thing called the Large Hadron Collider because 1) it is easily confused by children and poor typists to be a euphemism for an erection, 2) it cost $8 billion to build and yet was easily shut down when a bird dropped a baguette on it, 3) it makes some people fear that it'll open up a black hole or bizarro universe where Justin Bieber is NOT trending on Twitter, and ...

Every now and then, something will randomly fall out of the sky into an extremely insular environment, and chaos and confusion will erupt. Those consequences, as Chicken Little will tell you, can be devastating. Something along those lines recently happened at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) when a bird dropped a baguette on the giant particle accelerator as it was flying overhead, nearly ...

The world's scariest technological advancement and Hollywood's most familiar standby will soon meet, according to Crunchgear. In case you'd forgotten, the massive, underground machine the Large Hadron Collider -- engineered to simulate the "Big Bang" -- was first kicked into gear last September. Fortunately for everybody, when the switch was flipped, the world didn't implode. Unfortunately for ...

We thought that we had heard the last from the doom-sayers about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but of course leave it to that bastion of high-quality journalism, Fox News, to find a research paper that slightly contradicts accepted scientific assumptions about the LHC and twist them into prophecies of world-ending catastrophe. A new study from three scientists, Roberto Casadio of the ...