My Geek Notes

I was listening to NPR the other day and they were doing this story about the “Large Hadron Collider” that is scheduled to be tested in November of this year. The Large Hadron Collider just happens to be the largest particle collider ever created. The thing has 16 miles of magnets that are located underground from France to Switzerland. Physicists are using the collider as the biggest physics experiment ever. They hope to find the Higgs field which to my understanding is the sticky stuff that holds the universe together. I am sure I have over simplified.

The crazy thing is that some people have theorized that crashing particles together like this could create a black hole. Now call me crazy but a Black Hole inbetween France and Switzerland sounds bad for me. Did anyone ever see that movie The Black Hole I mean the Black Hole in that movie ripped the crap out of a huge space ship. Imagine what It will do to have one hear on Earth. Plus I have seen Ghostbusters and played enough video games to know that what will likely happen is that it will open the door for some big pissed off creature to come have its way with earth.

Anyway good luck to those guys over there I hope that some covert military types are there to witness the event. And to those guys I say, what ever you do DO NOT CROSS THE BEAMS.