The BBC news website contains the following story:
"A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - reaches a key
milestone this weekend ahead of an official start-up on 10 September."
It goes on to describe in laymans terms roughly what is going on at CERN with the LHC, what's happening this weekend and what will happen in September. The article ends with this paragraph:
"BBC Radio 4 will broadcast live from Cern on 10 September. The Big Bang Day
starts in the LHC control room at 0830 BST for the official start-up, and then
continues through the day with related programmes, from indepth discussions
about particle physics to a special one-off radio version of the popular TV
drama Torchwood."
Oh dear.
2 comments:
Of course if as feared the earth ceases to exist 30 seconds after the LHC is switched on, the later radio programmes might be somewhat delayed.
I've Got Einstein on my Mind
by Jim Purdy
Listen to me one and all, Oh dear,
For bad news I bring, The End is Near.
In the UK, the Daily Mail tried to clue us in,
That those mad scientists are going to do us in.
Yes indeed, they have published a news article
Warning us of a runaway sub-atomic particle.
The Large Hadron Collider is to blame,
And our universe will soon end in flame.
Oh man, the fireworks will be spectacular,
It'll be so big, I won't need my binocular.
As the end nears, some may grieve and mourn,
But I'll enjoy the show, just eating my popcorn.
Someday I'll entertain grandkids with the story I'll tell,
Oh. Wait. I guess I won't have any grandkids, oh well.
In college, we laughed at those physics dorks,
Always talking about their tachyons and quarks.
Yes, soon the world will be gone, we'll be no more,
Thanks to guys named Fermi, Heisenberg and Bohr.
So, as I await the end of all mankind,
I've got Albert Einstein on my mind.
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