Tom Hanks to Turn On Large Hadron Collider - Neatorama

The CERN Large Hadron Collider had to be taken out of commission last September for retooling after helium leaked out and caused £20 million in damage. Who gets to turn on the button to start it up when repairs are finished? Movie star Tom Hanks!

Hanks was approached about the move while filming his latest film Angels and Demons in which he plays a Harvard University academic investigating a plot to annihilate the Vatican with 0.25 grams of antimatter stolen from Cern.

Steve Myers, Cern's director of accelerators and technology, told Nature News that he gave the actor a tour of the laboratory on February 13 and asked him if he would return for the switch-on, to which the actor agreed.

Cern's head of communications, James Gillies, confirmed that the facility would be delighted to have Hanks there to restart the collider, which organisers hope will take place in June.

Link -via Gizmodo

Previously: Trouble at the LHC

"When you turn on your Large Hadron Collider, does it return the favor?"

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Just remember in the "Simpsons Movie", the government used Tom Hanks to cover up a fiasco. Watch the movie again!!

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Insert "Da Vinci Code" reference here.

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I think it's good that a big time Hollywood guy will be there. So when they turn the machine back on and it inevitably rips a hole through the fabric of reality and legions of hellbeasts start spilling out into our dimension to feast on our souls, we're going to want a movie star there to look into the camera and say, "Hey ugly! Collide this!"

It's just good science.

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I guess it's better to be close to the black hole and die instantly, instead of waiting and watching the news crying... :)

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I always knew it, ever since I saw Splash!. I knew that Tom Hanks would be the man that would destroy the world.

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The big question is: will Tom Hanks Pee on the LHC?

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I'm not a doctor, but I play one on T.V.

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Apparently he's actually been down there in the tunnels already for several weeks, playing some fantasy RPG. He only answers to the name "Pardu".

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The title is a bit misleading. It says he'll be there for the switch on, not that he'll be the one turning it on.

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Seriously, after the Da Vinci Code turned out to be such an overrated piece of crap, they're actually filming another Dan Brown book?

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True internet Primetime Grilling. Interwbebs, you crack me up. *hugs*

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What, Tom Hanks gets to end the world and Johnny Depp doesn't? Where's the fairness in that?

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So... Hanks gets to be there because he filmed a movie based on a book that has CERN in it. Does it matter that the author got MANY, MANY "facts" incorrect about CERN in that book?

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Hmmm ... I just don't think Tom Hanks is sexy enough to turn anything on. Especially a large Hard ... oh, wait, that's H-A-D-R ... never mind.

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What if all the collider does is make Tom Hanks start doing commedy again (like Big), and stop only doing films he thinks will win him awards?

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