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One of the Coolest Places In the Universe

Posted by timothy on from the you'll-need-thicker-gloves dept.

phantomflanflinger writes "The Cern Laboratory, home of the Large Hadron Collider, is fast becoming one of the coolest places in the Universe. According to news.bbc.co.uk, the Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) — colder than deep space. The LHC aims to re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang and continue the search for the Higgs boson."

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  1. Cataclysmic? by ewrong · · Score: 1, Troll

    Okay, I don't really understand the science behind this but recreating the conditions of the "Big Bang" sounds potentially risky to me.

    I have a tendency to empathise with Dr. Adrian Kent in a related BBC article ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7468966.stm ) when he says:

    "How improbable does a cataclysm have to be to warrant proceeding with an experiment?"

  2. Re:Higgs Bussom? by superdana · · Score: 0, Troll

    And you guys wonder why you never get dates.