Just because I have been spending all waking hours (and some zombie hours) working on thesis related material, doesn’t mean I can’t veer off course for a distraction now and again. Below is one of those cases:
This is the detector in the much publicized Large Hadron Collider. Think of this thing as being just like the sensor in your digital camera, except 10,000 times the size (more?). I just took a peek at 30 pictures of the LHC over at one of my favorite sites: The Big Picture. I recommend that you also Check them out here.
Back to work for me, maybe a post on Monday.
..:: NJ Brideau ::.. 
Probably 10,000 times the sensitivity (maybe size too). That has to cost sooooo much money.
LHC finally worked today. made its first collisions… world hasn’t exploded yet.
Here’s one for your next post:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/10/is-a-time-travelling-higgs-sab.html
I don’t know what’s better, the graphic on this article or the fact that the LHC guys have actually considered the time-travel argument.
http://gizmodo.com/5415691/i-dont-like-lhc-scientists-quotes-that-start-with-if-it-does-destroy-the-world