More On The International Linear Collider

Posted by michael on Sunday August 22, 2004 @05:24AM from the get-cracking dept.

paragon_au writes "The UK Independent is reporting that details for a purposed 40km long international Linear Collider have been released by 'An international panel of particle physicists [that] decided the high-energy linear collider - a £3bn machine for smashing matter against antimatter - will use revolutionary superconducting technology to shed light on the origin and nature of the universe. Plans for the International Linear Collider have still to be finalised but scientists hope that construction of the underground machine will begin in six years.'"

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I can hear the planning by iamdrscience · 2004-08-22 05:41 · Score: 5, Funny

I can hear the scientists planning this now...

"Okay, we'll make this like, really huge collider and we'll smash matter and anti-matter together really fast, like SSSSKRKKRAASSSH. Oh man, this will be so awesome."