{"id":1536,"date":"2008-09-11T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2008-09-11T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T10:02:33","slug":"how_the_lhc_actually_works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/11\/how_the_lhc_actually_works\/","title":{"rendered":"How the LHC Actually Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, are you wondering exactly what this Large Hadron Collider doohickey actually <i>does<\/i>? When it&#8217;s not creating black holes that are going to suck us into the Bearded-Spock dimension, that is? Then check out this informative video that was created by Chris Mann, an employee of <a href=\"http:\/\/public.web.cern.ch\/public\/\">CERN<\/a> (that&#8217;s the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the scientific group that actually built and operates the LHC):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qQNpucos9wc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qQNpucos9wc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Pretty fascinating, eh? Of course, everything seems more interesting when it&#8217;s narrated in an erudite-sounding British accent. This guy could recite his grocery list and make it sound like the most significant bit of scholarship ever conceived. That&#8217;s just one of those curious facts of life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2008\/09\/10\/fantastic-video-explains-how-the-large-hadron-collider-lhc-works\/\">Neatorama<\/a>, my latest morning-coffee read.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, are you wondering exactly what this Large Hadron Collider doohickey actually does? When it&#8217;s not creating black holes that are going to suck us into the Bearded-Spock dimension, that is? Then check out this informative video that was created by Chris Mann, an employee of CERN (that&#8217;s the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}