Large Hadron Collider

[ericjarvis]

Anyone died yet?

Thousands of people, all over the world. Same as normal.

 

[madzone]

Is it a coincidence that they start fucking about with particles and the weather turns monstrous.

I think they've upset the Gods

 

[Clair De Lune]

I misread the thread title

 

[kyser_soze]

According to the not even slightly barking Walter L Wagner and his not even slightly hatstand lhcdefense.org website 61% of people in an AOL survey said that operating the LHC wasn't worth the risk.

If that's not a good enough reason to fire up the magnets I don't know what is

Uber lulz here:

http://darkenergy.narod.ru/

March 30, 2010. Crime had happened. Collisions with the energy 3.5 TeV per proton or 7 TeV per collision were performed.

If a dangerous microscopic condensates (magnetic holes, strangelets or black holes) were already created then, according to the time of its growth, which is equal from 1000 seconds to 1000 days, we can suppose that the most probable days of “our start into cosmos” are from 30-th of March to the 1-st of April.

Here is my crude estimation of probable outcomes:
1. Explosion of the whole Earth – 49%.
2. Extermination of Geneva – 1%.
3. Extermination of Europe – 1%.
4. Other harmful unpredictable consequences – 5%.
5. Discovery of new subnuclear energy sources – 5%.
6. Outcomes with no harm and no use – the rest.

At the point 1 we all will die.
At the points 2, 3, 4 a part of humanity will be killed. Destruction of a part of the Earth will be followed by huge Earthquake all over the Earth. To raise the probability of survival it is necessary in the nearest days to be at the free air with the stalk of water, food and warm clothes.

 

[The Octagon]

Uber lulz here:

http://darkenergy.narod.ru/

Here is my crude estimation of probable outcomes:
1. Explosion of the whole Earth – 49%.
2. Extermination of Geneva – 1%.
3. Extermination of Europe – 1%.
4. Other harmful unpredictable consequences – 5%.
5. Discovery of new subnuclear energy sources – 5%.
6. Outcomes with no harm and no use – the rest.

At the point 1 we all will die.
At the points 2, 3, 4 a part of humanity will be killed. Destruction of a part of the Earth will be followed by huge Earthquake all over the Earth. To raise the probability of survival it is necessary in the nearest days to be at the free air with the stalk of water, food and warm clothes.

No shit Sherlock.

 

[nicksonic]

i'll take the 51% on the earth not blowing up

 

[longdog]

Uber lulz here:

http://darkenergy.narod.ru/

Oh noes......

Due to Emergency the contents of this page is shifted bottom.

The Earth will be blown up in one of the next days, by the scum who call themselves as scientists. Society you are a stupid cattle - because, despite the existence of this and similar web-sites, you did nothing for the detention of terrorists, physicists from CERN and other scoundrels, sitting in academies and promoting this blasphemous experiment.​

 

[danny la rouge]

Cattle, eh? I like cows. Especially shiny ones. I think I'll worship one.

 

[longdog]

 

[danny la rouge]

It's a Zebedee suit, stupid.

 

[kyser_soze]

We're all going to die.

 

[danny la rouge]

We're all going to die.

Some of us are going tomorrow, guv'nor.

 

[madzone]

Oh noes......

How would giving them detentions have helped?

 

[longdog]

January 8, 2010. This is not my picture. Perhaps its author is my good friend, supporter.

Citizens! Do not think that some good Uncle Ivan would come and destroy the CERN and its doomsday machine, LHC. Think yourself for your salvation. And not just think, but act. I have no flight experience, no money for the fighter and for a nuclear warhead to bomb the LHC. If you will not stop the CERN now, the CERN will kill all of you in the first quarter of this year, with the probability of about 50%.
I am a physicist. I always respected physicists. Now I hate most of them. They are rogues, cowards, killers, psychic freaks. Damn you, you bastards, academicians, and candidates with the doctors, except for units, my supporters, active supporters of the ban of the experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

 

[machine cat]

because, despite the existence of this and similar web-sites, you did nothing for the detention of terrorists, physicists from CERN and other scoundrels, sitting in academies and promoting this blasphemous experiment.

lol.

"Guys, this is madness. We should put a stop to our experiment now. This website says so."

 

[kyser_soze]

I have no idea what any of this means, but OMG it's lovely:

ALICE Event.

 

[DexterTCN]

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49305387,00.htm

'Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future'

Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."

Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered

 

[TAE]

By Nick Hide on 01 April 2010, 10:33am

Nice.

 

[DexterTCN]

I actually posted it yesterday before noon but because Higgs-Bosun was involved it didn't appear until today.

 

[teqniq]

Apologies if this has been posted before but I found a live animation of ATLAS via the register, it's here:-

http://atlas-live.cern.ch/

 

[madzone]

Excellent

 

[TAE]

BBC News: "Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang'"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228

 

[Badgers]

Cern scientist expects 'first glimpse' of Higgs boson

Professor John Ellis, a former head of theoretical physics at Cern, told Newsnight's science editor Susan Watts about the growing sense of excitement at Cern, a week ahead of that key science meeting next Tuesday.

"I think we are going to get the first glimpse. The LHC experiments have already looked high and low for this missing piece. It could be that it weighs several hundred times the proton mass, but that seems very unlikely, then there's a whole intermediate range where we know it cannot be, then there's the low mass range where we actually expect it might be. There seem to be some hints emerging there... and that's what we're going to learn on Tuesday".

Hurry up you bastards

 

[Badgers]

Big news.....

The most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - may have been glimpsed, say researchers reporting at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16158374

 

[nuffsaid]

i was kind of hoping they wouldn't find it as surely it's more interesting to realise all that we thought about the make-up of the universe was wrong, but if the FTL neutrinos are proved to be so does that not also scupper the standard model theory? (Please be wrong, please be wrong - crosses fingers in hope of much more interesting universe than a 'standard' one).

 

[laptop]

if the FTL neutrinos are proved to be so does that not also scupper the standard model theory? (Please be wrong, please be wrong - crosses fingers in hope of much more interesting universe than a 'standard' one).

Directly, it would scupper something else entirely - Special Relativity, which deals with the very large - while the Standard Model deals with the very small.

One of the interesting questions is that no-one's come up with a way of unifying Special Relativity with the Standard Model.

The a flood of claims that this finding vindicates "String Theory" - one of the attempts at unification - started pre-emptively last week. From the summary I've seen (from the Not Even Wrong blog) they're a bit sus.

 

[gentlegreen]

So what's it for ?

Why not spend the billions on cancer research instead ?

Will it ultimately let them make practical fusion reactors for instance. ?

 

[nuffsaid]

So what's it for ?

Why not spend the billions on cancer research instead ?

Will it ultimately let them make practical fusion reactors for instance. ?

It should lead to a greater understanding of the universe, what dark matter is, dark energy, dark flow and who knows what that could lead to. R4 said that when we had major scientific breakthroughs back in the early 20th century those breakthroughs ultimately led to the technology we take for granted today, smart phones, ipods, computers etc. So don't expect new toys immediately but it's all part of the human march onwards and upwards towards.......well, that's the question. But I'm sure there's enough money to go round to run the LHC AND cancer research, it's not like they're mutually exclusive, and cancer research has made very good strides recently, or so we're told.

 

[laptop]

Recall that the origins of this thing you're looking at include:

Someone wondering why you get something that looks like tiny lightning when you rub a piece of amber with a silk cloth; and
Someone else wondering whether it is possible to write a mathematical formula which will tell you whether any particular formula produces a result, or churns on forever.

Discoveries come from wondering about something - something else, usually

 

[gentlegreen]

Well I suppose it makes more sense than the billions wasted on manned space flight .. the trillions wasted on nuclear weapons is even more obvious.