The Large Hadron Collider is about to tear the fabric of space and time. This article discusses some of the safety precautions they have taken to ensure that the stream of protons screaming around the 27km "racetrack" at .99 the speed of light doesn't break the magnetic confines of the collider. Here's my favorite bit:
In experiments, researchers found that an 86-microsecond exposure of the beam would bore a hole 40 meters into a block of copper.
Holy shit! All you need is a large spinning mirror and you could vaporize a human target from space.
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