CERN's Massive Physics Experiment

"Protons, electrons, positrons, quarks, gluons, muons, shmuons! I should have paid better attention to my high school physics teacher."

Well, high school physics teachers tend to be too stupid to know much about quarks and gluons (hence the reason they're teaching high school). Still, this huge atom smasher looks pretty darn nice. Perhaps scientists will finally spot the graviton. The article mentions Dan Brown's book, Angels and Bad Things (or whatever). Dan Brown is really annoying, isn't he? Too bad I haven't read any of his books. Nonetheless, I look forward to CERN's atom smashing.

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