The world's largest particle collider successfully fired a beam of protons around a 17-mile tunnel Wednesday, and no, the world did not end as far as I can tell.
It did, however produce a mysterious side-effect.
According to myway.com, the successful run of the proton beam around the 27-kilometre track resulted in the sound of champagne corks popping in labs as far away as Chicago.
No explanation has been given for this weird, quantum effect. An emerging hypothesis is that a champagne-bottle-shaped membrane may have encompassed the primitive universe, and the Big Bang was like a cosmic cork-popping.
In which case the question becomes: "who popped the cork"?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080910/D933PMQG0.html
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