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EHM-1671 Ben:

--- Quote ---Originally written by The Dominion Post (newspaper from New Zealand)
The [Large Hadron Collider] at CERN, the European nuclear research organisation based near Geneva, will be switched on this Wednesday... The LHC will fire particles around its 27-kilometer-circumference tunnel. It well then smash protons - one of the building blocks of matter - into each other at energies up to seven times greater than any achieved before.
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This is very exciting... ;D

EHM-1883 Matt:
Just to turn the tables a bit, it looks like the media has made a big big big mistake and all newspapers have announced that the collision is tomorrow.

Well, just looking around the CERN website and I found that they are not actually doing the collision at all tomorrow, and the media has overeacted as usual and did not listen to the whole story!! Tomorrow, all that is going to happen is they are going to test the beams which is not dangerous in any way, and the actual collisions are planned to happen in October.

So basically, the moral is (as usual) don't trust everything the media says;)

EHM-1001 Robert:
Well, here, in the radio it was announced only that they switch it ON today for the first time ;)

EHM-1671 Ben:
...and the world didn't end.

How embarrassing for all those who thought 'alien invaders' were coming, or that black holes would swallow the universe? ;)

EHM-1883 Matt:
...The collision hasn't happened yet, BBC quickly changed their mind and suddenly they're telling us the collision is in October...

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