Large Hadron Collider

I'm really excited, because the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is about to start spitting out data. Particle physicists are hoping to learn new things about the fundamental pieces that make up the universe.


Here's an article about the LHC:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/first-beam-circ.html



And here's an interview with Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard who has predicts that the LHC may allow us to discover extra dimensions! (She also came to my school to give a seminar a couple of years ago...she's a really amazing scientist.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-45154219728824809