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Large Hadron Collider: Public chooses 'Halo' as its new name

Cruxis Mana | September 17, 2008 | News | PC Mac Misc

For those who don't know, the Large Hadron Collider is a proton accelerator which scientists hope will help them discover just what exactly happened after the Big Bang occured.

But it seems that the scientists behind the Collider have grown sick of people misplacing their d's and r's and so decided to hold a poll for the public to vote for a new, catchier name. Today the results of said poll were announced and the new name is; "Halo".

The name "Halo" sounds much catchier and should adorn the £4.4 billion experiment, according to a poll organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry in London.

Several other entries to the competition proved popular. Colliderscope garnered many votes, along with Black Mesa, the name of an ill-fated research facility in the game franchise Half-Life.

To reflect the endless quest to find the answer to life, the universe, and everything, some suggested Cern should name the experiment after the computer designed to do just that in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Deep Thought.

Other favourites were:The Particrasher, E=M25, The Big Banger and Big Bang Two Point Oh, Collider-torus Rex, The Boffin's Bagel and Doughnut of Discovery.

Telegraph readers also rose to the challenge with several hundred suggestions. They came up with:

Ovid's Phaeton
The Magic Roundabout
The Genesis Engine
E42 - E for Energy, 42, from The Hitchhikers Guide
Adam Smasher
Hawkinator after Stephen Hawking
Puff The Magic Hadron
Bosonator
BOB - Biggest Of Bangs
Mr Twirly Beams
The One Ring
Stargate

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Cruxis Mana | September 17, 2008

Aww. I wanted Black Mesa.

Insider jokes are the best kind of jokes.
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  MusiKon | September 18, 2008
  
  What? No love for Aperture?
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    Cruxis Mana | September 18, 2008
    
    Black Mesa > Aperture Science.
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      Daigoji_Gai | September 19, 2008
      
      I completely /agree! I was rooting for Black Mesa also....
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Team Xtreme | September 17, 2008

I always knew that Halo would end us all.

My how I will miss talking about colliding two hardons at near light speed velocity.
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HeenanAlpha | September 17, 2008

I'm sticking with the one ring. I mean Halo's cool but If you call your project the one ring it just sounds badass.
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  Seproth | September 17, 2008
  
  Unless you happen to like pretty girls.
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Bale Fire | September 17, 2008

Wow like 90% of those entries are from Sci-Fi movies. No originality at all
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Deathsythe | September 18, 2008

They should have went with something different - Halo already has far too much keywords and tags associated with it. It would be hard for the collider to even make any kind of imprint into it when searching.