So it begins, 'unlocking the secrets of the universe' the scientists say. 'End of the World' all the doubters say.
Well at 08.30 (GMT) the worlds bigest science experiment took place under ground in Switzerland, (and we are still here)
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Scientists began the world's largest science experiment hoping to unlock some of the secrets of the universe.
The ?5 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will smash protons - one of the building blocks of matter - into each other at velocities only a fraction less than the speed of light.
In the flashes from the collisions, scientists expect to reproduce conditions that existed during the first billionth of a second after the Big Bang at the birth of the universe. No one knows precisely what will come tumbling out of the primordial soup of disintegrating protons. But the scientists have dismissed suggestions that the experiment could somehow cause the end of the world.
The project is expected to generate 27 TB of raw data per day, plus 10 TB of "event summary data", which represents the output of calculations done by the CPU farm at the CERN data center... The LHC is expected to produce 10-15 petabytes of data each year.
That is a MASSIVE amount of data. I have 3TB of server storage at home for my personal needs, and this thing could fill it in minutes. Insane. We will be going through the data from the LHC for decades.
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