Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Evans the Atom

The man behind the world’s biggest scientific experiment, which critics claim could cause the end of the world, is a Welsh miner’s son who has admitted blowing things up as a child.

Dr Lyn Evans, who has been dubbed Evans the Atom, will this week switch on a giant particle accelerator designed to unlock the secrets of the Big Bang.

But the 63-year-old physicist revealed yesterday that his passion for science was fuelled by the relatively small bangs he had created with his chemistry set at his council house in Aberdare in the Welsh valleys.
We have a new Welsh Born Icon.

Name: Lyn Evans

Born: 1945, Aberdare

Educated: Aberdare Grammar; University of Wales, Swansea

Job: Director, CERN, Geneva; Large Hadron Collider Project Leader

5 comments:

KaliAmanda said...

That is awesome. Will the Vulcans make first contact now?

Nick Browne said...

Maybe they already have.

John said...

Bah ! It is simply an extravigant stunt to advertise the upcoming release of "Watchmen".
It is a simple case oc the Dr. Manhattens - nothing more !

KaliAmanda said...

Hmm, I dunno, that looks more like an Andorian...

Also, wasn't this the plot of a season 2 episode of "Eureka"?

KaliAmanda said...

Yep! This was episode 8 of season 2 of "Eureka". It was called E=MC...?


http://www.scifi.com/eureka/episodes/episodes.php?seas=2&ep=0208&act=1