Saturday 13 September 2008

LHC roundup

By no means comprehensive, just some stuff that caught my eye (or my newsreader) during this week of Big Bang Day. First, just to check:

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

. . . which neatly leads into:

Hysteria over LHC reaches critical mass | Edger

The BBC has been as guilty as anyone in its general news bulletins, though Radio 4 put out some good coverage - Engineering Solutions with Adam Hart-Davis, in particular:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00d9yz3

After the above link expires, download an mp3 from RapidShare here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/341848048/EngineeringSolutions_BBCR4i-20080910.mp3

Finally, also from Adam Hart-Davis:

Large Hadron Collider: Why we're all in love with the 'God particle' machine - Telegraph