Great pictures of the LHC @ CERN (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach

Thanks to Dennilfloss at Ars Technica for pointing out an article at Boston.com that includes great pictures of the LHC in Switzerland.

As some of you may know, CERN is building a huge particle accelerator near the border with France. This awesome piece of machinery (with a track around 27 kilometers in lenght!) is called the Large Hadron Collider. It's kind of funny how incredibly, mindbogglingly huge a machine needs to be to make measurements at the tiniest scale of size and time. Seriously, we're talking atoms and nanoseconds here.

Check out the article for a whole bunch of stunning photographs. Also, check out LHC article at Wikipedia for details on what this thing actually is.

And should anything ever go wrong and we're all devoured by a black hole (or creatures from another dimension): at least we know that the end of the world was pretty ^_^

EDIT:
If all of that is too big to take in, here's the LHC rap >_<

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