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Mar. 8th, 2005 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nigeltdeThe first of some 5,000 magnets that will bend particles at near light-speed around a huge tunnel under Switzerland has been lowered into place.
The {Large Hadron Collider] will recreate the searing-hot conditions that existed just fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
Scientists hope this will enable them to see new physics, and discover the sought-after Higgs boson, or "God particle", which explains why matter has mass.
Researchers may even find new dimensions and generate mini-black holes.
On the one hand, this is so totally amazingly cool; and on the other I'm kinda worried we're all going to get blown up. Ah well!
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theantimodel has uploaded a bizarre mp3 of the Batman theme song and the Beatles' "Taxman" mixed together it's very amusing and worth downloading for the name alone. And also very disconcerting and slightly freaky if you're at all familiar with either of the songs. Hearing "batman" where "taxman" is supposed to be reminds me of other Beatles lyrics where they stuck stuff in on the sly, such as in "Girl" (are they in fact saying "tit tit tit"?) and "Baby You're A Rich Man Now" ("baby you're a rich fat Jew" referring, of course, to Epstein).
The {Large Hadron Collider] will recreate the searing-hot conditions that existed just fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
Scientists hope this will enable them to see new physics, and discover the sought-after Higgs boson, or "God particle", which explains why matter has mass.
Researchers may even find new dimensions and generate mini-black holes.
On the one hand, this is so totally amazingly cool; and on the other I'm kinda worried we're all going to get blown up. Ah well!
theantimodel has uploaded a bizarre mp3 of the Batman theme song and the Beatles' "Taxman" mixed together it's very amusing and worth downloading for the name alone. And also very disconcerting and slightly freaky if you're at all familiar with either of the songs. Hearing "batman" where "taxman" is supposed to be reminds me of other Beatles lyrics where they stuck stuff in on the sly, such as in "Girl" (are they in fact saying "tit tit tit"?) and "Baby You're A Rich Man Now" ("baby you're a rich fat Jew" referring, of course, to Epstein).
