Success!!

They fired it amidst protests and prophecies and ta dah!!! It worked. They successfully circulated the beams through the 27 km long tunnel. And we're all still alive aren't we? I still don't know what became of the Stephen Hawking bet but what i do know is that the Higgs Boson, the primary reason for the experiment will take another year to be discovered. Now they also say that this was just a minor experiment compared to the high energy collisions that will take place on 21 October, 2008 when the LHC will be officially unveiled.
Maybe there will be another(and possibly bigger) threat to mankind then. *yawn* Till then, whats on the other channel.

Here Goes!!

The LHC is about to be switched on at 3:30 am Eastern Time. It will answer questions that have eluded scientists so far including the discovery of the Higgs Boson (no idea what'll happen if they don't find it!), dark matter, properties of mass, how energy is converted into mass and also many other questions involving dimensions, time, anti-matter, and so on and so forth.
Basically the scientists will try to create a condition inside the particle accelerator which resembles the condition of the universe one billionth of a second after the Big Bang.
All we can do is keep our fingers crossed and wait for it to happen.
Damn it I don't wanna die.... not now, I'm still... I'm still............. an undergraduate!!! :p

More Pics

I was browsing the internet for the LHC and came across a few pics of the scientific wonder that may or may not bring upon us doom!
Enjoy...

The End Cometh!!!!

Come September and I realised it was high time I revived my blog from dormancy. And what better time than now when humanity supposedly stands on the brink of oblivion or on the brink of the most important discovery in the history of mankind. Numerous debates on this one. Yes I speak of the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider made over 10 years and €6.4 billion. It is scheduled to activate tomorrow and IF everything goes right it will produce the elusive Higgs Boson, the "God Particle", the only particle unobserved in the Standard Model of particle physics. Along with the discovery of the Higgs Boson, it will also shed light on many other phenomenon unknown to science today like dark energy, some new dimension, etc..... Whatever the case the thing looks cool eh?

Now there has been quite a ruckus on the possibility of micro black holes and strangelets being formed which can obviously destroy earth. The scientists ar CERN argue that they do not pose a danger as they will cancel out as soon as they are formed.

Danger or No Danger I am excited!!! Also check out the lhc rap at youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM