Finding God’s Particle September 9, 2008
Posted by Dan Herman in Collaboration, Science, Technology.Tags: Government, Science, Technology
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Sometime tomorrow, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research will switch on their Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and smash sub-atomic particles together in the hopes of finding “God’s Particle,” the missing matter that in theory expains the beginning of time and the Big Bang.
Now aside from being a $5.3 billion, 27-kilometre underground tunnel, the Large Hadron Collider is also a partial product of an innovative and collaborative environment supported by the use of wikis. Not surprising given CERN was home to Tim Berners-Lee and the invention of the Web. The link between the origins of the Web and the wiki are strong, (more…)
