The world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, the European Organization for Nuclear Research reported Wednesday. Physicists hope those collisions will help them understand suspected phenomena such as dark matter, antimatter and ultimately the creation of the universe billions of years ago, which many theorize occurred as a massive explosion known as the big bang. The collisions occurred Tuesday in the collider, located in a 17-mile tunnel under the Swiss-French border. Last month, the atom smasher broke the world record for proton acceleration.
Mayor, prostitutes in a dustup
The mayor of Copenhagen, Denmark, Ritt Bjerregaard, sent postcards to all central hotels warning guests of the U.N. climate summit not to patronize Danish sex workers during the conference, London’s Guardian newspaper reported. The paper said the Copenhagen union of prostitutes has not taken this insult, as it were, lying down: They have now formally offered anyone carrying one of the mayor’s postcards a hefty discount rate. Prostitution is not illegal in Denmark.

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