It collides!

This time everything went according to schedule and the first LHC proton beams collision scheduled for today was a success.  Those who were awake and aware could watch a live transmission. Two 3.5 TeV proton particle beams that have been circling in opposite directions were smashed in 7 TeV event. That was the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator and its giant detectors have begun to gather their first physics data from the collisions. And that's just operating at half power - after refurbishing it will do twice as much energy.

Talking about physics - Tor has a an update on the latest science finds on dark matter and it reads like science fiction. Dark stars, gigantic repositories of matter just outside the universe and catching WIMPs with cryogenics. Who needs a plot?

And if you have any qualms strong magnetic field applied in right place can help. The ability of strong magnetic field to disrupt functioning of brain centers have been known for a while. It can be used to simulate brain damage without lasting effects. This time they it was done to the center processing information about beliefs and disrupted the moral reasoning process. Test subjects were shown scenes where actor does something that intends (but fails) to harm someone.  People who had this part of brain disabled found this actions as less morally forbidden and more morally permissible.