Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (now, is it simply a larger collider of hadrons than the others, or does it collide large hadrons? Hmmmm...) are pretty happy over one of their first successful proton crackups.
One physicist called the experiment a "huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1 - what happened in the beginning." They're obviously quite excited.
But a spokesman for the American Institute of Physics, one Phil Schewe, said this: "This is the Jurassic Park for particle physicists."
I think Mr. Schewe should put Jurassic Park on his Netflix queue or check the book out of the library, because that particular scientific project did not end well. And if the problem that John Hammond faced was that when his theme park glitched, the rides ate the guests, I don't even what to know what might happen if proton beams moving at nearly the speed of light slam into each other and it goes wrong.
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