The Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator extraordinaire and general source of abject terror among those willing to speculate on what it might do, will soon be pushing out its first proton collision… and streaming it live.

Doctore Freeman? Thank goodness you made it!

For those who just can’t miss anything that happens in science (especially for you fans of the Higgs boson), it’s nice to think that we can keep a tab open and tuned to the CERN page and watch our understanding of physics either be confirmed or smashed to pieces. The folks at CERN have even been kind enough to post a nice long timeline for what we can expect to see over the course of the day as it ramps up for its first proton collision. If you’ve got nothing else on, it’ll be worth watching, at least to confirm that they haven’t y’know… destroyed the planet.

Anyway, those of us in Komplett with an interest will be keeping an eye on it, in the vague hope that it’s not exactly the same as when NASA smashed something huge into the moon last year and all we got was a live stream of some grey moving towards some more grey, before it all turned black… with any luck this one will be a little more interesting. We’re hoping to see bosons all over the place.

In the meantime, if you’d like to check out the live stream from CERN, even if it’s just to keep an eye on them, then you can check out the official stream.

Anyone else got their fingers crossed for a resonance cascade?