Large Hadron Collider

[DotCommunist]

I just hope sam niel has no part in this experiment

 

[Dillinger4]

reverse vampires are from tanslyvania.

 

[kyser_soze]

I just hope sam niel has no part in this experiment

Or Jeff Goldbum. Or Dickie Attenbrough.

e2a - whoops, wrong movie...

Or Laurence Fishburn or Joely Richardson...

as you were...

 

[DotCommunist]

Or Jeff Goldbum. Or Dickie Attenbrough.

or laurence fishburn

 

[laptop]

reverse vampires are from tanslyvania.

cisylvania, surely?

 

[snadge]

well here's a picture someone on another forum has posted.

 

[Flashman]

Wish I had a job at CERN, even just making the tea would do.

 

[kyser_soze]

Generally the colour coding is a hang over from the colouring used on the CAD package! Hence at Diamond the dipoles (for bending the beam) were green, the quadrapoles (for focus and de-focusing the beam)were red, the hextapoles (for steering teh beam) were yellow, and the insertion devices were purple.

That;s to ensure the contractors don't assemble the bits in the wrong order innit?

 

[N_igma]

Richard from Reading cuts to the heart of the matter:

listen no one cares anymore about the big bang at the end of the day and quite frankly i am annoyed with the fact that all this blah has been government funded so im paying my taxes so scientist can play with toys and try and blow up the world (if anything does go wrong) leave the world alone. rather than concentrate on what people think of the big bang concentrate on knife crimes and gang teenagers, with that money the government could of changed a few things in this day and age its rubbish !
richard, reading

Wow, Richard is my hero.

 

[weltweit]

What are the chances of it just not working?

I mean its quite a complicated thing, innit, what are the chances, turn on, humm, nothing, nope, nothing happening, zip, nada ....

cue embarrassed excuses, shameful .. etc

 

[Roadkill]

Wow, Richard is my hero.

spEak You're bRanes are going to have a field day with some of the comments about the LHC on Have Your Say:

This Is So Stupid Because Could Of Killed Us All What A WASTE Of Money Could Of Been Used On Something A Lot Better!!!!

Amy, Bristol

Such as English lessons...?

People are now entering a zone they shouldn't mingle in- A person very close to me had a very serious anxiety attack last night because of the small chance of what this could do to the rest of the world. This is too risky, it needs to be stopped in my opinion.

Craig, Florida, North America

Well, what zone should we 'mingle' in...?

I think it is just wastage of money and resources. Today They are doing experiment about Big Bang, Tomorrow they will start asking about God !!! and Its existance. Some Times, We Just have to Believe, what we do not See.

Daud Khan, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

What, so people haven't started asking about God already?

i think its stupid and paffetic because all this stupid black hole bussness we could die because the holes wil get bigger n earth will get sucked upp so wts the point of us dieing for a stupid science expermentx

lyndsey, cumbria

I take it you weren't very interested in physics at school?

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened..and just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind....Romans 1:19-31

Evie, Oxford

Er ... right.

And so on and so forth...

 

[steveo87]

I just hope sam niel has no part in this experiment

***The 'Ooh Boy' Quantum Leap Tenuous Link of the Day award goes to YOU DC****

 

[laptop]

I mean its quite a complicated thing, innit, what are the chances, turn on, humm, nothing, nope, nothing happening, zip, nada ....

You've not been paying attention, have you?

Yes, it's dead complicated. The potential for a mammoth fuck-up - some Brit contractor going "oh, you wanted that bit 8 millimetres thick?" - was there.

But now they've got the beam all the way round, and the fuckup hasn't happened, and they've got data out of at least one of the detectors...

 

[Detroit City]

so how's our baby working? everything's go?

 

[MikeMcc]

so how's our baby working? everything's go?

Spectacularly well it seems, first beam for BOTH beams with particles seen at the detectors. well ahead ofthe test schedule with rumours of low power collisions next week.

 

[kyser_soze]

What are the chances of it just not working?

I mean its quite a complicated thing, innit, what are the chances, turn on, humm, nothing, nope, nothing happening, zip, nada ....

cue embarrassed excuses, shameful .. etc

Hmm, as laptop said, you haven't really been paying attention have you?

 

[Detroit City]

Spectacularly well it seems, first beam for BOTH beams with particles seen at the detectors. well ahead ofthe test schedule with rumours of low power collisions next week.

thats is GREAT news!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I was twenty minutes late this morning because a higgs boson on the line at London Bridge. It just came out of nowhere man.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Ooh, the BBC have started pronouncing Hadron as Hay-dron now. Has it always been haydron? I'm sure I've always heard it as Had-ron. Hmmm. Damn the BBC and their pronunciation fascism

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Ooh, the BBC have started pronouncing Hadron as Hay-dron now. Has it always been haydron? I'm sure I've always heard it as Had-ron. Hmmm. Damn the BBC and their pronunciation fascism

It was Hadron this morning on BBC Breakfast and it has been on Radio 4 as far as I can remember.
Maybe we have all been shifted into another dimension.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Ooh, the BBC have started pronouncing Hadron as Hay-dron now. Has it always been haydron? I'm sure I've always heard it as Had-ron. Hmmm. Damn the BBC and their pronunciation fascism

That's my fault, sorry. I have a mental block and cannot refrain from pronouncing them as Hay-drons rather than Had-rons

 

[janeb]

Today has been so exciting it has really made me wish I'd stood up to my school years ago when I wanted to do science and was made to do English Lit and humanities

*weeps for boffin self that never was*

 

[laptop]

*weeps for boffin self that never was*

www.open.ac.uk

 

[janeb]

www.open.ac.uk

Seriously, thanks - I just might

 

[longdog]

Er ... right.

And so on and so forth...

Some people just shouldn't be allowed near computers.

And to think these cretins get a vote.

If physicists want to search for strange matter they should look between these fuckwits' ears. Whatever it is there it sure ain't brains.

 

[longdog]

Ooh, the BBC have started pronouncing Hadron as Hay-dron now. Has it always been haydron? I'm sure I've always heard it as Had-ron. Hmmm. Damn the BBC and their pronunciation fascism

The beeb did the same thing after the hurricane flattened New Orleans.

All of a sudden it went from being New Or-leens which is how everybody and their dog pronounced it to New Or-lee-ons.

 

[psycherelic]

the big magnets are oxford blue in colour cos one of the project directors went to oxford.

anyone else any other useful yet irrelevant snippets?

for the geeky. the data is stored on approx 15 clusters running Oracle on Linux - originally had about 300 Tb of what is known as "hot data" i.e. data that is easily queryable.

for those who think this is a lot.. it is, but its by no means the biggest.

I don't really understand what that means but it sounds very impressive, what is the biggest and what is it used for?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Actually, it was Channel 4 news. I forgot which channel I had on in the background. So it's the fascist Channel 4

 

[laptop]

I don't really understand what that means but it sounds very impressive, what is the biggest and what is it used for?

If I knew, I'd have to shoot myself on security grounds


My guess would be that the biggest single chunk of online disk storage is a National Security Agency snooping store, likely at Menwith Hill.

And the biggest chunk of RAM on a single machine would be in the nuclear weapon simulator at Lawrence Livermore, California. Though if you were to count google as one machine, it'd be in the RAM running.

 

[kyser_soze]

'Satan's Stargate to Earth'

Genius. Just seen it on the C4+1 News.Every now and again an idiot website comes out with a gem.