“Scientists turn on biggest ‘Big Bang Machine’”
Source: Alan Boyle/MSNBC Colorado Springs
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (11 September 2008) – After 14 years of preparation, a new scientific wonder of the world officially opened its doors for business Wednesday with the official opening of Europe’s Large Hadron Collider.
The particle, which cost $10 billion, is the biggest, most expensive science machine on this planet. It is designed to probe mysteries ranging from dark matter and missing antimatter to the existence of extra and unseen dimensions in outer space.
Beams of protons were sent all the way around the collider’s 17-mile underground ring of supercooled pipes for the first time. While this was taking place, Robert Aymar, Europe’s CERN organization’s director general, said to everyone in the control room, “This is a great day for CERN.”
3 comments:
John, I think this is a really amazing article because it shows us how far people have truly come in developing and expanding the sciences. Its impressive that we have come to build a machine of this proportion! I would simply suggest that you slightly expand on your paragraphs, because we as the reader want to hear more about something like this. Great job!!
Great article that you picked. it shows a lot of interesting fact's that I was not aware of. The way you shortened the article really summarized the information. Good job
Its an interesting article. It's obvious that science is forever changing with new technolgy. I would suggest that you describe how this machine relates to forensics a little more. Otherwise, you did a good job.
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