Thursday, 18. September 2008

Large Hadron Collider Renaming Contest


After a full week of operation, the Large Hadron Collider has yet to swallow the world, leaving humanity free to concentrate on its rather geeky name.

Unimportant, you say? Well, people who were excited when physicists flipped the LHC's switch might be less enthusiastic if, a year or two down the line, nobody's actually found Higgs bosons or sparticles or gluinos or other assorted dawn-of-the-universe dust bunnies.

wired.com

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