Preparations are well underway at CERN to commission the world's
largest particle accelerator. Advances in networking technology
have allowed the particle physics lab to bring in scientists
from around the world to analyse the data is will generate. When
activated in May 2008 it's hoped that the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) will … Photons? Protons? Morons! "accelerate beams of
photons to close to the speed of light" By definition, photons
always travel at the speed of light. Moreover, photons are
uncharged particles, hence cannot be "accelerated". The word you
were looking for is "protons." As somebody or other once pointed
out, the devil is in the details. ...that if (as some fear) CERN
compress the earth into a singularity, some impressive storage
density will be achieved. That's all very well but. . . It
sounds like it's going to take a lot of power. What's it's
carbon footprint? So, just what would happen if they
unexpectedly push a proton faster than light? Imagine what that
would do to all the 'laws' we