Yesterday, the LHC malfunctioned during a test, forcing the scientists and engineers at CERN to shut down the collider. At the press release they stated that it may be down for another two months while they work out the problem and ensure it is safe to be started back up. Drats!

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Stumbled upon this earlier today, it seems that when the folks at CERN aren’t too busy trying to kill us all with tiny black holes they’re laying down phat rhymes over funky beats. Not down with the LHC? Fool. It’s the Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle collider ever built. So large is crosses the border between France and Switzerland and its contruction involves the efforts of scientists all over the world, including parts from Fermilabs here in the USA. Scientists predict it will answer some of the most boggling questions about the nature of the universe, as well as shed some light on the behaviors of particles that exist for such a short time they practically don’t exist. The LHC could prove the existence of the Higgs Boson which has yet to be observed, but the current model of physics accounts for. And if it doesn’t? We’d have to totally rethink our understanding of physics! Either way, the discovery would change the way we think (and possibly live!) forever!

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Michio Kaku. Theoretical physicist, Japanese man, and a fun-loving guy who likes to freak people out with scientific doomsday scenarios every now and then.

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