{"id":1117,"date":"2008-09-09T07:06:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T11:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2008-09-07T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T23:31:09","slug":"lhc-online-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"LHC Online Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Big Bang Machine&#8221; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080907\/ap_on_re_eu\/big_bang_machine\">goes online tomorrow<\/A>.  The Large Hadron Collider will explore the tiniest particles and re-enact parts of the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there&#8217;s a small chance that the universe will wink out of existence when the thing is fired up, but it&#8217;s a pretty small chance.  As Cory Doctorow reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A]s one physicist told me when I asked about this last month while researching my Petacentres article for Nature, &#8220;Look, it&#8217;s a 10^-19 chance, and you&#8217;ve got a 10^-11 chance of suddenly evaporating while shaving.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(I may never shave again.)<\/p>\n<p>Kate McAlpine, a Michigan State University graduate at CERN, has created <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM\">the Large Hadron Rap<\/A> as an homage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Big Bang Machine&#8221; goes online tomorrow. The Large Hadron Collider will explore the tiniest particles and re-enact parts of the Big Bang. Sure, there&#8217;s a small chance that the universe will wink out of existence when the thing is fired up, but it&#8217;s a pretty small chance. As Cory Doctorow reported: [A]s one physicist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}