All I Want For Christmas Is...To Be Sucked Into A Black Hole?

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Thu, 05/28/2009 - 12:25

It's been the better part of a year since the Large Hadron Collider — the massive particle accelerator operated by the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) — was in the headlines, and even then it wasn't good news.

The LHC has suffered from everything from poor craftsmanship to hackers to death threats from a paranoid populace — but it looks like the Device of Doom or Discovery will be back online and launching us into the future, or oblivion,...

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