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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-do-that-when-i-eat-chinese dept.

buildslave writes "The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a 'mini-Big Bang' by smashing together lead ions instead of protons. The scientists working at the enormous machine on the Franco-Swiss border achieved the unique conditions on 7 November. The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the center of the Sun."

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  1. Just you wait... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, if we can just wait a few billion years, a suitably intelligent species should evolve inside the newly created universe and build a Very Very Very Small Hadron Collider(VVVSHC) in order to investigate the conditions of their early universe....

  2. Re:Next step... by bittles · · Score: 5, Funny

    to understand recursion you must understand recursion

  3. Re:Mini - Big ? by RevWaldo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually the official sizes are Short Bang, Tall Bang, Grande Bang, and Vente Bang.

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  4. Re:Am I dead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah, it's just monday...

  5. Pah! by Cloud+K · · Score: 5, Funny

    The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun

    NVidia achieved that years ago.

  6. If we do it all together? by bradley13 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And if we do it all together, is it a gang bang?

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  7. Re:Science Journalism by daid303 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Frankly I don't give a shit who gets pissed off. The objective is scientific understanding, not pissing people off or not.

    It's just a very nice side-effect.

  8. Re:Science Journalism by jgagnon · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've never heard of a Prius? :p

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