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OK, Now I’m Nervous About The Large Hadron Collider
1:40PM Jesus Diaz | I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it’s going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators’s latest statement, I’m not so sure: More »
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4:00PM Rosa Golijan | It may not overheat in the presence of bread, but this pop-up book has the most accurate paper Large Hadron Collider ever. Figures that a book would make ending of the world by firing that bad boy up look fun. More »
This Is Simply The Coolest Pop-Up Book Ever
4:00PM Rosa Golijan | It may not overheat in the presence of bread, but this pop-up book has the most accurate paper Large Hadron Collider ever. Figures that a book would make ending of the world by firing that bad boy up look fun. More »
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Confirmed: CERN Is Just A Huge Half-Life Level
9:00AM John Herrman | Plenty of people have given CERN and Half-Life’s Black Mesa research facility the This Thing Looks Like That Thing treatment, but this tour of the facility’s deepest bowels is just too much. Steam geysers? Endless corridors? Rusty valves? Slime growths? More »
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Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested For Al Qaeda Links
6:12AM Jesus Diaz | Police have arrested a 32-year-old physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, linking him to an Al Qaeda terrorist group. Just fraking great. As if we didn’t have enough with the morons predicting Apocalypse and the thing failing on its own. More »
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Large Hadron Collider “Light” Will Half-End World In November
12:30AM Jack Loftus | While we doubt the loud sex is the real reason for CERN’s LHC-related woes, we are certain of one thing this morning: The “world-ending” LHC (citation: ill-informed ignoramuses) LHC will restart at half-strength in November. More »
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The Real Reason The Large Hadron Collider Keeps Getting Delayed
8:20AM John Herrman | As a part-time physics nerd, I get excited enough just reading Brian Greene books, so I can’t even imagine what the mood’s like over at the CERN dorms, where this polite advisory was allegedly posted. More »
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LHC, Science Could ‘Correct Some of Our Opinions’ About Scripture and Faith
1:00AM Jack Loftus | Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, the Vatican City’s governor, while visiting the CERN Large Hadron Collider on Friday: “The Church never fears the truth of science, because we are convinced that all truth comes from God.” More »
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Large Hadron Collider’s Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
2:40AM John Mahoney | Too good to be true: because his character in Angels and Demons saves the Vatican from being destroyed by antimatter stolen from CERN, Tom Hanks will be flipping the switch to restart the LHC. More »
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Postponed LHC Restart Could Wrestle ‘God Particle’ Discovery From CERN
3:05PM Elaine Chow | Scientists are racing to to discover the Higgs boson particle first. That’s right – CERN isn’t the only one looking, and its Large Hadron Collider might be upstaged by a U.S. accelerator yet. More »
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