Twittered in at 9:30, the Large Hadron Collider is online! Congrats CERN!

Where’s your god now?

From the article:

International scientists celebrated the successful start of a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday aiming to recreate the conditions of the “Big Bang” that created the universe.

Experiments using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest and most complex machine ever made, could revamp modern physics and unlock secrets about the universe and its origins.

..Eventually, the scientists want to send beams in both directions to create tiny collisions at nearly the speed of light, an attempt to recreate on a miniature scale the heat and energy of the Big Bang, a concept of the origin of the universe that dominates scientific thinking.

And think, to build the entire thing ($9 billion) it cost less than what we spend each month in Iraq ($12 billion)!

Perpetual war yes! Science no!