...the last big bang until the next time

Remember I spoke of taking part in some nuclear research a number of moons ago allied to CERN? See The Birth of Skynet.

Well here's a live'ish webcam on the latest particle accelerator kit. It's called the Large Hadron Collider ATLAS Experiment.

This page links to updated webcam images.

And here's the home page.

The project aims to understand the fundamental mechanisms of our physical existence. It works by accelerating particles and designing collisions to reveal sub-atomic processes. ATLAS in particular will simulate energy conditions 1 billionth of a second after the most recent big bang (I subscribe to the repetitive and cyclical nature of these things).

The spirit is in the fact not the mechanism.