Firing up the LHC

Pete

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andy

This is one of the best explanations of the LHC I've seen. Rap. Is there anything it can't do? It's far far better than this [bloody awful article in the Guardian today](http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/10/cern.particlephysics) by Stuart Jeffries that I wasted 10 minutes of my life on earlier. To paraphrase the Guardian article: *Me, Me, Me, Me, Large Hadron Collider, Me, Me, I'm an idiot padding out three pages in the style of a 13 year old livejournal blogger. Me me me.Unfunny joke. Unfunny joke. Me, me and finally, me.* They could have just the pages blank. Or used pictures. That said, the picture on the front of G2 was quite funny:<http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2008/09/10/cern_G2_cover.pdf>;

jandb

End-of-the-World prophets were getting short shrift from certain quarters. From the Telegraph online .... .... said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a t---."

andy

<http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/>;