Today marks the first day of the fully operational atom battlestation, a 27km particle accelerator that blasts tiny things into each other at 99.999999%% of the speed of light (not joking). It’s called the LHC or Large Hadron Collider and is a $5 billion toy for scientists to play with things like the meaning of life.  I couldn’t even understand the Wikipedia entry:

Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. It is theorized the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.

I have no idea what that means, but I do hope that this means I can drink without getting hangovers in the near future.  Here is a rap video for you to learn more:

You can watch a live test (although no particle smashing) here.