Large Hadron Collider

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I think it needs a thread of it's own. What do people think? Are there going to be lots of cool things happening in May or are we in danger of opening a space time rift and destroying the universe.

Discuss.

 

[bluestreak]

BOOOOOOM!

innit.

 

[T & P]

I think it needs a thread of it's own. What do people think? Are there going to be lots of cool things happening in May or are we in danger of opening a space time rift and destroying the universe.

Fear not.

Help is at hand.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I'm sure they have thought all this though, but it does worry me that they are not too sure what will happen when it's switched on. Machines built to recreate what happened during the big bang are a bit scary.

 

[Poi E]

They should start with a small hadron collider first just to be on the safe side

 

[_pH_]

WANT!!1! (no idea why I WANT!!1!, i just do, ok?)

 

[david dissadent]

Teh

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I thought they did all this in November?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Well they didn't. It is to be completed in May

 

[sojourner]

WANT!!1! (no idea why I WANT!!1!, i just do, ok?)

fuckin ell - is that it?!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

fuckin ell - is that it?!

A little bit of it.

 

[_pH_]

a veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryvery little bit of it

 

[sojourner]

a veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryvery little bit of it

eep

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

a veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryvery little bit of it

Though I suppose ATLAS is the biggest 'experiment' stage of the ring. I assume this is where the magic will happen.

 

[teqniq]

Fear not.

Help is at hand.

With that kind of help I'd rather call Dyno-rod.

 

[_pH_]

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

 

[_pH_]

This is how big'n'awesome LHC is Soj....

The largest machine in the world...

The precise circumference of the LHC accelerator is 26 659 m, with a total of 9300 magnets inside. Not only is the LHC the world’s largest particle accelerator, just one-eighth of its cryogenic distribution system would qualify as the world’s largest fridge. All the magnets will be pre‑cooled to -193.2°C (80 K) using 10 080 tonnes of liquid nitrogen, before they are filled with nearly 60 tonnes of liquid helium to bring them down to -271.3°C (1.9 K).

The fastest racetrack on the planet...

At full power, trillions of protons will race around the LHC accelerator ring 11 245 times a second, travelling at 99.99% the speed of light. Two beams of protons will each travel at a maximum energy of 7 TeV (tera-electronvolt), corresponding to head-to-head collisions of 14 TeV. Altogether some 600 million collisions will take place every second.

 

[longdog]

One strangelet and we're all fucked (possibly).

 

[laptop]

Forget it making black holes that eat Switzerland. Now we have two Russian mathematicians asking whether it'll make a wormhole and thus mark the beginning of the era of time travel.

 

[sojourner]

This is how big'n'awesome LHC is Soj....

umm...I think the phrase I'm looking for is FUCK ME!

Okay...now I'm scared

 

[sojourner]

Something that occurred to me....why?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yeah I heard that (in metro and the sun of all places). Bit boring only being able to go back as far as when it was switched on. Convenient for the god botherers.

 

[_pH_]

Why not?

S'ok, we're all going to be perfectly safe, the collisions will be like swatting a mosquito, apparently

 

[fractionMan]

Mental. I just spent 1/2 an hour reading about quarks

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Why not?

S'ok, we're all going to be perfectly safe, the collisions will be like swatting a mosquito, apparently

Does anyone know what swatting a bug at light speed is like.

And if it is going to open a wormhole to the future then that's not much like swatting a mosquito even with my limited physics knowledge.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Mental. I just spent 1/2 an hour reading about quarks

 

[nuffsaid]

That first pic of it IS the Time Tunnel isn't it...?

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/timetunnel.htm

 

[_pH_]

Mental. I just spent 1/2 an hour reading about quark

 

[Dillinger4]

My friend is on a team that is calibrating the magnets.

 

[kyser_soze]

Something that occurred to me....why?

Why cross the Atlantic in a sailboat or climb a mountain or bypass nerves in paralysed rats so they regain a limited amount of mobility?

Because we can, because it will help us learn more about how the universe was made and it's a device that shows what humans are capable of when we really, really try hard. Particle accelerators are full stop - anything that whizzes things to .999c and then smashes them together is , but the LHC is beyond , it's a Bose-Einstein Condensate of a machine.

My friend is on a team that is calibrating the magnets.

Geek cool factor X1,000,000,000,000