I learned that one of Wikipedia's languages is 'Simple English'. In this thread I would like to see people posting hard subjects written using simple English words. The large hadron collider page is a good start.

QuoteThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. It's a machine used to shoot very small particles into each other at high speed. When the particles hit each other, they explode, and the machines catch a glimpse of the flying pieces. By examining the pieces, scientists can figure out what the particles were made of. This is necessary because we do not have any tools small enough to take apart such small particles.

The particles mainly used by the LHC are called protons. Sometimes the nuclei, or centers of atoms, of lead (the smallest amount of lead you can get) will be sent around the ring. Protons are smaller than even the best microscope can see. These little particles are moved around the Large Hadron Collider in opposite directions at high speeds by magnetism. The protons hit one another close to the speed of light and break into even smaller pieces. By looking at these pieces scientists hope to learn what makes up the universe.

The Large Hadron Collider is at CERN which is on the border of France and Switzerland, mostly in Switzerland. Scientists hope that it will prove the existence of the Higgs Boson, the only particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model that has not been seen yet. If scientists can find this it will help show that the Standard Model is right and show what the universe is made of.

It has been theorized that the crashing of the particles will make tiny black holes. Some people think this could be very dangerous, but scientists say that any black holes will be so small that they will disappear in an instant, long before they can suck up even a few particles.

Scientists also say that the LHC won't be dangerous to the earth because particles from the sun (called cosmic rays) are always crashing into the atmosphere with much more power than the LHC. Since none of them have destroyed the earth, the LHC won't either.

The LHC was first used on October 10, 2008, but it did not work because a cooling system broke, which was important for the magnets that guide the protons. This caused part of the facility to collapse. The winter shutdown means that it will not be used again until September 2009.

The LHC can only be used during the summer because of the huge amount of power it sucks up.

The rest of this thread should be written in simple English too.

my name louie

i very complex

Then all of a sudden I remembered some things about the operashun and me getting smart and I said holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time.

No more moon english. Great!

My mama always said "Life was like a box of chocolates".

i sure like them fried potaters

I actually kinda like it.  They don't have to spend a paragraph explaining to me what a particle accelerator is, assuming I don't already know.

reading xkcd eh?

har you gais

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I actually have been seeing Ms. Hadron Collider on the weekends.

I am going to write all of my papers using simple English words from now on. My teachers get mad if my Flesch-Kincaid score goes above 7.5. When the score goes that high I can't have my friends in class read the paper and help me make it better because they aren't sure if they know what all of it means.

Most of the simple wikipedia editor people forget the whole point of it. It was made for people with little understanding of English, not retards. They use words foreigners who have little knowledge of English would probably not understand but structure everything like they're talking down to an idiot.

That's awesome

I ain't talkin in that stupid hillbilly english Them hillbillys really not that civilized