Welcome to the first post my new blog. It’s been a long time coming but it’s finally here! I’ve been trying to decide what I should put in the first post and I’ve decided that as I share my launch week with the switching on of the world’s biggest machine - the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland - I should honour this scientific milestone.
You will surely have heard about the switching on of the LHC and the smashing together of two beams of particles that begins a groundbreaking investigation into the origins of the universe. The best way to get your head around the significance of the Super-Collider machine is to read some of the web headlines surrounding it’s launch. My favourites include: Botanist sues to stop CERN hurling earth into parallel universe, Black Hole eats Earth and CERN black hole is the most dangerous danger for the world. In a nutshell, this week begins a series of experiments that could shed light on dark matter, describe the origins of mass and possibly show us extra dimensions in space. Yeah, okay, my new blog seems trivial now, but I’m still proud to launch in this week of astonishing creativity and scientific brilliance.
If you’d like to learn all about CERN click [here]. You can volunteer your computer’s downtown to crunch Super-Collider data with this [screensaver].