we were preparing dinner yesterday evening; he was mixing up some batter and i was waiting impatiently for him to get over with it, when he started talking about the LHC. i must admit that was my first real encounter with the term, though i had been hearing vague references to the experiment for the past week or so. so he was like, "...and two photons are going to be collided on october 21st..." and i was like "hold on. it cannot be two photons; it must be two protons". so that immediately ticked him and he said "how can you be so sure? i think i read photons". so i spouted some gyan on photons (the little that i remember from class 12 physics) and he told me that i am have an "exceptional memory" :) now me, i am modest. i know my memory's not exceptional...it's just good. i looked up the LHC and photons on the web today, and it made for some interesting reading (primarily because i wouldnt have to remember all of the stuff for an exam on the morrow). here are the links (as if the whole world hasnt read of all this already!...but anyway, here's my bit to promote the knowledge of what surely ought to become one of the greatest experiments ever performed!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
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