Anyone hear of it? http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080629/science/science_doomsday_collider What do you think of such a machine?
One of my all-time favorite TV shows (and I watch very few) is Lexx, an admittedly moronic science fiction series that aired around a decade ago. Ended in 2002. Great stuff - watch it and see. Anyway, from Wikipedia, on the subjects of Lexx and the Higgs-Boson particle: [In the science fantasy series Lexx, one character points out that although all-out nuclear war sometimes destroys all life on planets as advanced as Earth, it is much more common for such planets to be obliterated by physicists attempting to determine the precise mass of the Higgs boson particle, since the moment the mass is known the planet will instantly collapse into a nugget of super-dense matter "roughly the size of a pea."] ["Yo Way Yo" April 26, 2002 4.24 Dr Longbore selects his crew of schoolgirls to go onto Noah with him. But just before he boards, Priest and Bunny take his ride, and he is fried. Out of spite, Longbore has left a Higgs Boson accelerator to destroy everything. The aliens start tearing into Earth using moon-sized tentacled asteroids. Kai starts towing the accelerator to use it against the aliens, but after Xev, Stan and he leave Earth, 790 destroys it using senile Lexx. Prince grants Kai his mortality, as he tows the accelerator into the main alien asteroid, and collapses it. Kai crashes into the core in almost a shot for shot duplicate of the first time he died and laughs from the irony as the accelerator's Higgs Boson value is determined and explodes. Prince appears, rejoicing, on Noah. Lexx disintegrates, and spawns a baby Lexx, which Stan and Xev enter with Stan becoming the new captain. The End.] From a campy 4am sci-fi show to reality? Funny....... Unless it happens
proton accelerators have already been used to smash atoms. this sounds like a story someone dug up because there wasn't much else to talk about that day lol.
It's kind of old. The science channel had a very long episode on it and how they built it. Very interesting none the less.