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Long-awaited Hadron Collider

We're with Brian Cox on this one. Although it should be taken with a pinch of salt. See Brian's explanation of his use of this entertaining and underused term in science.

Anyway, we're here to celebrate the most publically anticipated event in physics and probably science for quite some time. On Wednesday the LHC should be switched on and - should we not get swallowed up in a black hole - one of the biggest, most complex pieces of scientifice apparatus ever will hopefully, slowly start to reveal hitherto unknown secrets of the universe.

Everyone's talking about it and as a result, the radio and TV schedules are filled with programmes about the LHC (or maybe it's the other way round?). The BBC Radio 4 in particular is calling 10th September 'Big Bang Day'. A full ist of programmes is here, and will be availble to UK-based readers for 7 days afterwards on the BBC's iPlayer. Also see their interactive guide to the 4 main experiments and audio archive on particle physics.

Posted by Chris Leonard at 16:17    Comments (2)

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