hi, i'm twelve

[rmd]

so, as you may know, the large hadron collider is due to go online soon.

you may have noticed that "hadron" is one letter transposition away from "hardon".

someone certainly did. behold, the (nsfw if they object to large cartoon phalluses) large hardon collider

Comments

[cz_unit]

Perhaps, however this is happening in a pretty small space. I am happy that we're not there yet, but we're boosting the power pretty quickly. I think within 100 years we'll be exceeding anything we see in nature.

Regardless, melting the vacuum would be bad. Really bad.

CZ

[smcmullan.livejournal.com]

you said crossing the streams would be bad...

[space-parasite.livejournal.com]

No, I mean events on that scale. There are astronomical phenomena that amount to particle accelerators light-years across, and every so often one of those particles hits something else, like our atmosphere.

Breaking the false vacuum would definitely be exciting, but we're still quite a few funding cycles away from having to worry about doing it ourselves.