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The Large Hadron Collider works! They've broken out the champagne, according to the BBC Radio 4: Big Bang site:
Of course, no major event of cultural significance can pass without some Doctor Who connection, however tenuous. Radio 4 has obliged us with a special radio episode of Torchwood, set at CERN. You can download Torchwood: Lost Souls as an mp3 for the next week.
And, courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wordweaverlynn, a very important Large Hadron Collider status update. (It made me laugh, anyway.)
Continuing a tradition of long standing among accelerator physicists, a delegation from the CMS collaboration drove the 6 miles from their experiment to the control centre to deliver a bottle of bollinger, wrapped in a print out of the first particle detections, to the machine managers of the LHC - gratefully received.
Of course, no major event of cultural significance can pass without some Doctor Who connection, however tenuous. Radio 4 has obliged us with a special radio episode of Torchwood, set at CERN. You can download Torchwood: Lost Souls as an mp3 for the next week.
And, courtesy of
wordweaverlynn, a very important Large Hadron Collider status update. (It made me laugh, anyway.)
