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Scientists Looking for the Force Finally Put CERN's Large Hadron Collider to Good USe [Darth Higgs]

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2008-02-22 09:30:53 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
CERN's scientists, the fine people who brought us the W and Z particles, anti-hydrogen atoms and hyperlinked porn sites web pages, are now hard at work building the Large Hadron Collider to discover something even cooler: the Force. Yes, that Force. Or like physicists call it, the Higgs boson, a particle that carries a field which interacts with...
 
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CERN to Morons: Large Hadron Collider Won't Destroy Earth. Morons. [Lhc]

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2008-03-31 11:28:38 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...CERN (and everywhere else,) in response to the suit. They should know: it's their machine, they designed it and they've been telling everyone for a while that their research shows it's safe The lawsuit filed by a group of Hawaii residents is alleging that not enough safety checks have been made by CERN to prevent disaster when the LHC goes...
 
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CERN rap video about the Large Hadron Collider creates a black hole of awesomeness

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2008-08-08 15:29:00 by Joshua Topolsky in Engadget
...CERN 's Large Hadron Collider does? Worried that it will create a Möbius strip (a rip in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop) ? Just love to jam? Watch this CERN-sponsored rap after the break, and have your universe totally destroyed. Er, but not for real Via Protein Feed Continue reading CERN rap video about the Large Hadron...
 
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CERN Opens Its Doors To The World

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2008-03-20 04:02:11 by HASH0x8b58d38 in TechFresh Gadgets
...CERN will open its doors to the public next week, offering a unique chance to visit. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (commonly known as CERN) is situated in Geneva and will display its newest and largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), before it goes into operation later this year. This scientific...
 
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CERN creates a new super-fast internet, invites tons of people to a deathmatch

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2008-04-07 10:29:00 by Joshua Topolsky in Engadget
...CERN isn't colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it's busy working on a new "internet" which will be 10,000 times faster than our current version. The project -- known as "the grid" -- is built atop completely fiber optic networks, and utilizes modern routing centers. By keeping traffic out of our...
 
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Cern's Large Hadron Collider, a big bang

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2008-07-03 20:06:20 by Tam in Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women
...Cern, the European laboratory for particle physics near Geneva, scheduled to have its Grand Opening next month Stephen Hawking explains what the LHC is for It will smash particles together to recreate the moments after the big bang, producing a new golden age of discovery for physicists There's more, lots more, and the Guardian has just...
 
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Nightmare in Geneva: What if the Large Hadron Collider Beam Becomes Unstable?

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2008-09-02 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...CERN plans to stop the beam should things head south. CERN to Start Up the Large Hadron Collider. Now Here's How It Plans to Stop It This week, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the worlds most powerful particle accelerator [above] began test runs, sending a stream of protons around a quarter of its 27-kilometer circumference. The European...
 
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Large Hadron Collider Won't Destroy Earth. Of Course Not, say Scientists [Lhc]

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2008-03-31 11:28:38 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...CERN, in response to the suit. They should know: it's their machine, they designed it and they've been telling everyone for a while that their research shows it's safe The lawsuit filed by a group of Hawaii residents is alleging that not enough safety checks have been made by CERN to prevent disaster when the LHC goes live in the coming...
 
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Forget Time Travel, Now We're All Gonna Die

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2008-04-24 16:33:53 by Editor in Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
...CERN Large Hadron Collider would tear a hole in the fabric time so we can all travel to the future and ride hoverboards or the past and have sex with dinosaurs? Well now there are two gentlemen fighting a legal battle in Hawaii to prevent CERN from ever colliding anything. Why? They're convinced it'll open a black hole bigger than my...
 
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