I know that sometimes BCU comes off as immature. Like maybe our office is populated with 12 year old boys taking turns writing articles while farting on each other and having their first erections. But not today. Today is a serious day about important, scientific developments that could potentially give us a glimpse into our ancient past, namely the Large Hadron Collider, which is currently working to recreate the conditions immediately following the Big Bang.

Hehehe.

It’s just really exciting to know that we may be able to officially find out what the Earth was like right after that unprecedented Bang of a lifetime (hehe). The moments immediately after the creation of the universe as we know it have been a mystery for 13.75 billion years, leaving us to wonder if the Earth was exhausted from the effort, floating there in space while the other planets and stars finished up their business. Now that the scientists behind the LHC have begun smashing together “lead ions”, though, we may finally get a glimpse into the state of matter from the post-coital-Big Bang universe.

According to the report, the best way to recreate this is by making the collisions “as powerful and as efficient as possible” (that’s what she said) in order to finally understand the nature of the quantum world. So no more long, drawn out, romantic collisions, LHC. We need quickies to get this experiment taken care of.

Due to the much larger mass of ions, the scientists claim short-lived collisions will be extremely hot (hehehe I BET they will), and the resulting temperatures cause matter to take on an entirely different state. The produced matter is called “quark-gluon plasma,” (is that what they’re calling it these days?) and has been said to be extremely difficult to get off clothes which have never been witnessed by humans before.

The physicists behind this remarkable experiment believe that if all goes right, what will exist in the LHC would offer a mind-blowing look “at the extreme conditions that existed at the dawn of time.”

Exciting, right? And not at ALL immature, right?

Hehehe.

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