If the Earth were shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, it would actually be smoother than one.
Day: September 9, 2008
LHC Ready
The sum of human knowledge could be massively increased on Wednesday.
Collisions at these and greater energies occur millions of times a day in the Earth’s atmosphere, and nothing terrible happens.
The LHC might reveal something completely unexpected about the workings of our universe, and that, says Professor Hawking, is what makes physics so satisfying.