World's mightiest atom-smasher starts operations today - Wed,Sep 10, 2008

The world's biggest atom smasher fired up today by the particle physicists, in a mission to answer some of the most perplexing questions about "The nature of the universe"designed to simulate conditions of the Big Bang that created the physical Universe .

They have fired a beam of particles called protons around the 27km long tunnel which houses the LHC "Large Hadron Collider" that was designed to accelerate sub atomic partiles to nearly the speed of light and then smash them together! with a machine that costs 5 billion Pounds.

Another big challenge will be testing the theory of supersymmetry, which postulates that the members of the known bestiary of sub-atomic particles have related, but more massive, counterparts.

Internet-driven rumours said the LHC would create black holes or a nasty hypothetical particle called a strangelet that would gobble up the planet. CERN commissioned a panel to verify its safety calculations and France also carried out its own assessment.

Paul Rincon - Science reporter, BBC News

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You may also watch "The Large Hadron Rap" on youtube, for the producer Kate McAlpine, 23, a Michigan State University graduate at CERN.

Mars Retrograde

Retrograde Motion is the motion in the opposite direction in which the action is a backward motion. In our religious it was clearly mentioned that the end of the world will not be established till the sun rises from the west. Scientist believes that the backward motion was applied on Mars, and will be applied to to all planets including the earth.

An article written by Joe Rao, who writes about astronomy for New York Times.

He mentioned in his article "All the planets exhibit retrograde motion at one time or another. Ancient astronomers were unable to come up with a satisfactory explanation for it. The motion is tricky."

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