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Gonna take the kids down to the beach this morning for a low tide. Maybe we’ll find some cool sea life! Last time we went we found some huge moon snails. This beach isn’t as nice as that one, but there’s  still lots to see.

I find it amazing how much life there is  at the beach. Stand still long enough and you’ll see millions of creatures. The sand is from countless numbers of their crushed shells collected and ground into minute particles over the years.

I see that as evidence of evolution. All the creatures that have lived and died form the foundation for the next generations to thrive, to adapt and to lay the foundation for the next generation after that.

A group of Greek hackers managed to compromise one of the Large Hadron Collider‘s systems today.

Hackers were able to get into the network linked to one of the system’s four “eyes” which will monitor experiments intended to help scientists better understand the beginnings of the universe.

“We think that someone from Fermilab’s Tevatron (the competing atom smasher in America) had their access details compromised,” said one of the scientists working on the machine. “What happened wasn’t a big deal, just goes to show people are out there always on the prowl.”

The hackers took their opportunity to mock the multi-billion-dollar project’s security but did not appear to have malicious intentions.

They just wanted to point out, in the words of Professor Farnsworth:

Your team sucks bosons!

In case you don’t get it, one of the LHC’s goals is to find evidence of the so-called “God particle,” the Higgs boson.

I should have tried harder in Calc 102. I find this stuff fascinating.