September 10, 2008

this week, on a very special fringe, the large hadron collider

National Geographic has a nice collection of photos of the LHC at CERN, including this one of Peter Glaessel, a technical coordinator sitting inside the “time projection chamber.”

Time-projection-chamber

In other news, JJ Abrams debuted his new TV series Fringe last night, which based on the pilot promises a full season of not-even-pseudoscience, completely improbable situations, ridiculous conspiracy theories and awkward love interests. I’m personally hoping for a Large Hadron Collider guest appearance coupled with a time travel / black hole plotline somewhere around episode 8. Talk about product placement opportunities…