Hurray For Not Being Blown Up!

We The Best Mang...We Deed It

Although later I am posting another article about the CERN lab itself. If you are reading this then you should know that we, and by we I mean a hand full of physicists and scientist watched two white dots blink on a computer screen. Noticed what's missing? We [and they] did not die! Isn't that awesome!? Not dying rocks! The thing is, this is step one [or step 421] depending on how you look at this of many equally great and dangerous steps to come.

Here's what Alex Higgins [Associated Press] has to add:

"Now that the beam has been successfully tested in clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise. Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe."

More photos and the AP article after the jump...

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A Virus Gets A Virus

eeeeeeeeeew Mimivirus

Okay, I can't really express how cool this really is, because there is a large part of my brain still trying to comprehend what the ramifications of this discover. Know this, viruses can be infected and possibly attacked by other, smaller viruses. What this 'could' mean? Viruses are evolving, into what, is still yet to be studied.  What is odd, is that if viruses are evolving, wouldn't that mean that cells [by nature or unnatural means] have to evolve too?

After the jump : The Mamavirus get's infected by the Mimivirus!

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