Scientists hope for surprises in Big Bang experiment

It could lead to advanced Femme-bots! Awesome!

Supercollider shut down until spring - LHC - MSNBC.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26856525/)

looks to me like the whole damn thing was just a way to piss away 10 billion dollars.
on top of that,they might create a black hole and suck the earth down in it.

I thought it sounded cool when i first heard about this, but at this point it just kind of feels like wasting money. Is anything material ever gonna come out of this?

Also i now know where the coldest place in the universe is.

Big Bang investigators want new atom smasher - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100726/ap_on_sc/eu_france_atom_smashers)

"Two beams of protons were sent hurtling in opposite directions toward each other in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel below the Swiss-French border — the coldest place in the universe at slightly above absolute zero."

dang already?