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LOST and the Large Hadron Collider
SOURCE: Popular Mechanics - May 24, 2008
"DEBUNKING LOST'S SCIENCE: Hollywood Sci-Fi Behind the Scenes
As our favorite TV show returns from writer’s strike purgatory, its creators reveal just how much research goes into the making of Lost’s high-tech mythology—and let slip a few secrets about the island’s future.
By Erin McCarthy
Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse tell PM they've been following the development of the Large Hadron Collider (right) as they lay out Lost's time-travel plot for the rest of this season. Could one of the Dharma Initiative's stations (left) create a mini black hole into the future?
The Large Hadron Collider
Source: Wired Magazine - 2006
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/11/72198?currentPage=all
Subatomic Inferno Under the Alps
John Borland
GENEVA -- The elevator buttons in front of me, hand-labeled in black marker, speak volumes: "Sky," says one, the other, "Hell."
Sky is the Swiss-French border, pastoral Geneva countryside in the shadow of soaring Alpine mountains. Hell is "The Machine" -- a 16.8-mile underground ring where, in almost precisely a year, superconducting magnets will begin accelerating atomic particles to within a hairsbreadth of the speed of light, and smash them into each other.
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