Welp, the LHC smashed some particles today [BBC]. Two streams at 3.5 TeV (Thats short for “a whole fucking lot”) were sent right into each other, and look, we’re all still here.. “unless we aren’t” I said to a coworker.
Mind… Blown..
Maybe we’re already in an alternate reality where men want to be me and women want to be with me.. we shall see!
The expectation is that previously unseen phenomena will reveal themselves in the resulting debris, with a key objective being the search for the much talked-about Higgs boson particle.
This is thought to have a profound role in the structure of the Universe, and would enable scientists to explain why matter has mass – something which, at a fundamental level, they have difficulty doing at present.
Huh
At the end of the 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam) experimental period, the LHC will be shut down for maintenance for up to a year. When it re-opens, it will attempt to create 14 TeV events.
Natch.. next up? Twice the power! Color me happier than a Higgs in shit.
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