And contrary to popular fears (even a lawsuit was reared) the LHC will not trigger a world-destroying black hole or a strange sci-fi vortex that will devour the world. It is a fat chance, physics all over the world are confident it will not release a deathray.
But much more, physicists are excited the experiment will yield vital gogoplex´s of data that will help understand the basic fabric of our world, and possibly even find the Higgs boson, dubbed the "God particle", for its ghost-like qualities and its keystone position in the latticework of modern physics. The Higgs boson is the only unobserved elementary particle and could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. Additionally it is expected that the LHC might shed some light and help solve the inconsistencies between relativity theory and quantum mechanics and probe into the present mysteries of physics wich include dark matter, supersymmery and the existence of parallel universes folded in 10 dimensional space.
The Large Hadron Collider took 14 years to build with a cost more than 8 billion dollars. It is 27 kilometes long, built in a circular tunnel between 50 and 120 meters deep in the Swiss-French border.
More than 8 thousand scientists of 80 different countries are working on the project, which is being tagged as the culmen of scientific experimentation.
The Innovatio Globe at the CERN.
A simulated event featuring the apparition of the Higgs boson.Watch the hilarious explanation: Large Hadron Rap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
Watch livewebcast for full info and live first beam of the LHC http://www.nowpublic.com/world/live-webcast-bigbang-machine-lhc-collider-cern-switzerland-sept-10
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