Wednesday 10 September 2008

When Particles Collider

If you're reading this, the likelihood of us all being swallowed up by an artificial black hole will have diminished somewhat ( don't you just long for the Stephen Hawking Voice Programme sometimes? ). Typical. We can't even create a man made vacuum in space. Clearly they forgot to call that clever Dyson bloke from Wiltshire. A dual cyclone, ball tilting, pet hair removing cylinder would have done the job. And you can call me Susan if it isn't so.
So now they've really "opened up" the Large Hadron Collider to full tilt, what have these malevolent protons shown us? Well, couched in the verbiage of the layman, giant detectors will scour the "subatomic wreckage" for evidence of new physics.
Those in the know say the universe is made up of 25% dark matter, a mysterious substance as well hidden as Westlife's talent.
One of the first likely discoveries from Cern is a theory called Supersymmetry. As much as this sounds like a feature of "Trinny and Susannah Undress The Nation", it isn't. It is an idea which predicts that every fundamental particle in the universe has an invisible, overweight twin. Now don't go blaming this poor particle for it's obesity. It can't help it and your oppression and ridicule of it only serves to diminish its contribution to society. So what is the answer to all these scientific imponderables and what possible benefit will it bring you and I? Well, hopefully a better name than the current plethora of bizarre suggestions.
Squark, Twin of the Quark, The Photino, Twin of the Photon and The Stuff of light. I think there's a real gap in the market to make a compelling and accessible science podcast and there's only one company to do it.
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