Saturday, August 23, 2008

For the Nerds

I ran across this while looking for something else on the web, but it explains a bit about the new CERN Particle Accelerator over in Switzerland and France in a way that will reach a bunch of folks. I thought it was a great way to do this.



I know some of what they talk about, but my sister CP probably knows way more. "The Higgs" is what is called a Higgs bosson, thought to create gravity. The statement Gravity is weaker than weak refers to the Weak force.

If you go here, you can see some really cool pictures of CERN. Some of them look like sets from Star Wars, like this:

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