Photo: National Institute for Fusion Science, background-worthy large pic here
Large Hadron Collider who? Forget CERN's little science gizmo - the supersexy science machine title belongs to Japan's Large Helical Device, the world's largest superconducting stellarator* that employs a heliotron magnetic field. Via The Long Now Foundation
Plus, there is a large pic that looks good for your monitor's background! (For some neat photos of the Joint European Torus nuclear fusion reactor and more, check out Kernfusie)
*A thingamajig used to contain hot plasma with magnetic field to sustain a controlled nuclear fusion reaction.
The Hadron will not make black holes large enough for the earth's end. But I do believe that it will over time, around 50 destroy our little blue planet. Messing with the magnetic field for one and have we not got enough background radiation without that Japanese machine.
Just what I'd heard.
I'll try to post something if I see a big bright mushroom the day they switch it on. In 2018.
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as a physics student I'm apalled at how dumb people are. anything to justify slashing the science budget, right? it's all a witch hunt.
now, if a Magnetar blows up anywhere nearby, the atmosphere would boil away and we would be instantly killed by gamma radiation. but scientists aren't in the business of fabricating death stars. if you want to fear something, fear the infinite void above us.