The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started up yesterday in Switzerland and has officially surpassed the Tevatron at Fermi Labs in Chicago. The system is not yet up to full speed where scientist expect all the weird/fun shit to happen. That'll happen sometime next year. In the meantime you can place your bets! As The Economist notes:
Paddy Power, an online bookmaker, is offering odds of 11 to 10 that dark matter will be found before black holes and 8 to 1 that black holes will be first. Dark energy, a mysterious force thought to drive the expansion of the universe, trails at 12 to 1. And for those who fancy a real outside bet, the firm is also offering 100 to 1 that the machine will discover God.
My money is on dragons.
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