So after about a year of down time to fix a leak, the world's largest Atom smasher is back up. They are still in the testing phases and have already broke a record for the highest amount of energy shot around the arc. 1.18 trillion electron Volts. But estimates say that by 2011 they will be shooting around 7 trillion eV. LOL! They are in essence shooting laser beams at each other and seeing what happens! I hope we figure out something useful from this thing or it will be the world's largest laser light show! LOL!
More stupid science stuff! Gotta love it!
In other news, some lightning has been seen to produce gamma-rays. Those are the harmful radiation that flies off of a solar flare. Also this is a tell-tale sign of an antimatter particle called a positron, the antimatter particle to the electron. Kinda neat. Lightning has the ability to turn itself "inside out" physically speaking. LOL! I love it!
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