Bring on the Bang!

Is tomorrow another day closer to mankind's self demise or will tomorrow bring much anticipated knowledge? That's right, many folks believe September 10,^th 2008 will be the day mankind creates its end when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins it's first circulation of it's beams. The LHC will attempt to collide two rotating beams counter of each other causing the protons to collide with a predicted energy of 7 TeV per beam.

The LHC was constructed in a tunnel buried between 50 and 175m underground along the Swiss and French borders outside Geneva. The circular tunnel it's housed in is a diameter of 27 km in circumference. The LHC is the largest energy particle accelerator and was built and funded with over eight thousand physicist with more than eighty-five countries involved.

When this particle accelerator fires up history will definitely be made. Though the first attempt to actually circulate these beams will be September 10^th 2008 there were successful beam injections carried out on the 8^th and 11^th August 2008. To actually circulate these beams, will hopefully give supporters a better look into what to expect on its official unveiling on October 21^st 2008

When the big day comes and all is a go for the many supporters of this experiment the LHC will in theory produce information that could very well explain and find missing links in the standard model of physics. Learning as well how other elementary particles acquire properties of mass.

Many question the safety of these planned experiments and the program has been under heavy pressure from the media and even the courts. Though one can't say for sure what's going to happen, many believe it's our human nature to do everything in our power to reveal the answers so many seek.

Though safety is a factor for many, the question of what is the point to all this is even more controversial and weights heavy on this story of science. Some believe secrets are trying to be unlocked. Secrets of factual information that might lead to more knowledge and understanding of physics and how our universe really works.