Hadrons and Pions and Bosons, Oh My!

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will go online soon and the LHC crew has produced a video that will teach you more about high-energy physics in five minutes than most science courses do in a semester, so enjoy.

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HTML to imbed this video shamelessly stolen from Little Green Footballs.

The bad news is that when the LHC powers up it may destroy the fabric of space-time and engulf our solar system in a black hole. The good news is that if this happens, France will be among the first to go.