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If you like the movie Contact with Jodie Foster, you should definately take a look at what the people at CERN in Switserland are cooking up.

In the movie, pretty girl Jodie Foster captures an intraterrestial transmission that includes instructions to build some kind of inter-planetary transportation system. If you see the device in operation, it reminds me of the work at CERN. They are building Hadron, the world’s largest particle accelerator (27km). Soon the contraption will be finished and we’ll be able to recreate the conditions that existed microseconds after the Big Bang. Some people are starting to become afraid, just like pictured in the movie.

picture of the Hadron collider

picture of the Hadron collider

Anyway, pretty impressive stuff.

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Written by kodel

August 8, 2008 at 8:34 am

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