Welcome back to Tuned into Technology, faithful techno lovers and readers of my first blog. Now that the staff of the Reflector is back from the 88^th annual Associate Collegiate Press journalism conference in Austin Texas, I will be back to my weekly Friday technology fix.

As I was searching the Popular Science website, I found an interesting story that was aching to be written about in a relatively candid fashion. The largest particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider, has once again made the news. For those who haven’t heard about this piece of fantastic machinery, it can be found at CERN’s laboratory in the Jura mountain range just outside of Geneva Switzerland.  The machine has an 18-mile tunnel, which is larger than London, England’s Underground system.

By firing particles at each other, physicists hope to create the very same conditions that existed after the Big Bang Theory. Although CERN’s website states they are unsure what they are to find after this mind-boggling experiment, they understand for a fact that the world of physics will be changed forever. Huh!

Now, we all understand that with science projects, things usually go wrong in the strangest of ways. However, unlike my Grade 6 science fair project where I mummified apples with sodium like the ancient Egyptian people did to pharaohs, the physicists and scientists behind the LHC or the Large Hadron Collider invest a little bit more time and money into the project.

However, recently, a bird dropped a piece of bread into the outside portion of the machinery. Luckily, the machine was not on or else we might all be cowering under the threatening glare of the tyrant piece of mutant baguette. Lasers would fire from his eyes, explosions would radiate outwards. Imagine what happened to Sandman from Spider-man, but this would be even scarier. Something delicious becoming pure evil.

Of course, I am being sarcastic and the above scenario would never occur. On the other hand, when the bread fell into the machine, it built up considerable heat. If the machine were on at that moment, the considerable heat increase would have caused automatic systems to shut down the machine. This machine has run into problem after problem ever since its creation. For its sake and the amount of money that has been poured into it, I hope its next try is a success. As well, when they find out something big in the physics world, I hope physicians are able to explain it to us in a way that we can understand. Perhaps Bill Nye will come back and tape a new episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy so we can truly understand CERN’s findings.

If people were wondering about my science fair project, I won a silver medal. For the readers of Tuned into Technology, live long and prosper. Check your midi-chlorian counts because I felt a tremor in the Force. Or, that just might be my next blog tingling my Spidey senses because I know it’s going to be a doozie.

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