Experimental physics in a nutshell

One of the things that drives me to be a scientist is my curiosity to understand what’s going on around me. Unfortunately, I just don’t have enough time to take all the classes that will explain everything, so I have to rely on pop culture. And so can you!

This summer, the Large Hadron Collider was started somewhere in Europe, and all I knew was that some people were worried it would destroy the world. So in case that about sums up what you know (or even if you could explain all the physics behind it), Popular Culture explains it for you:

Large Hadron Rap.

Collisions comic. (Remember, there are five parts! Click the “next” button on the right to read the next part.)

Of course we should all take a moment to realize that neither of these sources are actually Popular Culture; they are merely artifacts of nerdy people using Popular Culture’s dissemination machine in wonderful, wonderful ways. But still very nerdy ways.