Large Hadron Collider
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Augie March
blahem
On today's Jeremy Kyle: "The Hadron Collider ruined my life"
<CUT TO: JEREMY BEING SUCKED INTO A BLACK HOLE>
JEREMY <SCREAMING>: It's important we get to the truth! Your collisons caused the universe to implode! Didn't it?? DIDN'T IT?!? ARRRGGHHHH!!!!!
<AUDIENCE WHOOPS AND HOLLERS>
<CUE TITLES>
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
There were 2 programmes on BBC Four last night about CERN, and they were very, very interesting.
The second explained all about the Higgs Field, and how they won't see the Higgs-Boson but just it's after effects. They would also think it quite cool to see evidence of other dimensions, but put the likelyhood at almost impossible compared to the highly probable of finding the Higgs-Boson.
It was fascinating and I'm slightly less worried about being deaded now.
The second explained all about the Higgs Field, and how they won't see the Higgs-Boson but just it's after effects. They would also think it quite cool to see evidence of other dimensions, but put the likelyhood at almost impossible compared to the highly probable of finding the Higgs-Boson.
It was fascinating and I'm slightly less worried about being deaded now.
xes
F.O.A.D
naah,we'll have much longer than that. The balck hole,if produced,will be so small,it will pass right through matter and just sink to the middle of the earth,where it will wait for a particle to get too close. Which in theory,could take years.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
stretchy18
New Member
I'm going to be flying allday when they flick the switch, is it wrong of me to be pissed off that I may expire in what I think is a plane crash rather than the galaxy turning inside out and dissappearing up its own arse with everybody else
Ich bin ein Mod
does his make up in his room
Much as I'm loving all the physics in the news (don't think I've had one class since school started back when I've not been asked about the LHC) I am starting to tire of all this "oh no the world's going to end" pish.
Especially as come Thursday everyone's going to feel "is that it?"
Especially as come Thursday everyone's going to feel "is that it?"
camouflage
gaslit at scale.
They did a risk assesment and it was decided it's ok to proceed. So that's ok.
Cid
Proper break this time
When scientists do something like this their metabolic system undergoes a metamorphosis that allows them to subsist entirely off caffeine for weeks at a time.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
It's going to be an anti-climax tomorrow, isn't it?
xes
F.O.A.D
oooh,the 14th of october is when the "mass ufo event" is supposed to be happening!! It IS a stargate after all!!
yes,I know,the dates don't mix,wannafightaboutit?
They're starting to circulate the proton and antiproton beams tomorrow at an energy level of 0.45TeV. Later, when they're stable, they'll bring them together, starting the colisions. Finally bringing the energy up to. 5 TeV.
Then and only then, will the star gate open.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
As we get closer to the switch on time and space will start acting more weirdly.
There were 2 programmes on BBC Four last night about CERN, and they were very, very interesting.
The second explained all about the Higgs Field, and how they won't see the Higgs-Boson but just it's after effects. They would also think it quite cool to see evidence of other dimensions, but put the likelyhood at almost impossible compared to the highly probable of finding the Higgs-Boson.
It was fascinating and I'm slightly less worried about being deaded now.
Stephen Hawking was being interviewed on the radio this morning, and made a good point - nothing that will happen in the LHC tomorrow has not occurred in our atmosphere already. I think he's talking about cosmic rays - highly energetic particles that smash, at near lightspeed, into the atmosphere and have all kinds of interesting collisions, much of which we can detect.
The difference between that and the LHC is that we can arrange for this collisions to happen when we want them to, and happen to have lots of detectors handily pointing at the place where the collisions occur so we can see what's happening.
So if 7TeV collisions produced micro black holes, they've already done so in the vicinity of Earth, and nothing went wrong. That's assuming that the power of the LHC is enough to cause a micro black hole to appear anyway, which Hawking was very doubtful about (though he did say he'd almost certainly get a Nobel Prize if it did...)
Chester Copperpot
Triple stones
This 50 Million to 1 chance? Is it in total or for every collision the machine creates.
fogbat
The Talibum
This 50 Million to 1 chance? Is it in total or for every collision the machine creates.
It's one for each collision. But they've promised to stop, once they've collided 49,999,999 hadrons, so we should be ok.
david dissadent
New Member
Tomorrows date.
10\9\8.
And at 54 seconds and 6 minutes past seven it will be
10 9 8 7 6 5 4.....
10\9\8.
And at 54 seconds and 6 minutes past seven it will be
10 9 8 7 6 5 4.....
psycherelic
I'm not an old hippy!
I think this thing really is quite cool, I wish I could listen to radio 4 all day tomorrow 
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Is there a minute by minute update service or anything?
Incidentally, I was just visited by a ghostly apparition of myself, only much older, who warned that the world was in great peril, something about a war...something about mankind's annihilasomething or other....10,000 years of darkness....not sure what that was all about.
Incidentally, I was just visited by a ghostly apparition of myself, only much older, who warned that the world was in great peril, something about a war...something about mankind's annihilasomething or other....10,000 years of darkness....not sure what that was all about.
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