Large Hadron Collider
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
You can arrange a free tour of CERN provided you can get there. just go to their website (CERN). You have to book about 6 months in advance. I have a booking in place for the end of March but nobody i know is geeky enough to go with me
I still don't really understand what it does but it is too cool not to see.
I'll come with you! My friend has a photo of herself standing right in the middle of that massive great tunnel and I'm super jealous
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
It's thrown up a court case now http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=2688
Is there any possibility they may have a point?
I think the best quote to come out of this so far is from one of the CERN scientists who said something like 'Yes, we could create black holes that swallow the earth, but equally we could summon up a race of dragons that eat everyone on earth.'
What was the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has two accelerators; ISIS (http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/) and Diamond Light Source (www.diamond.ac.uk). ISIS is a low power accelerator that uses protons (hydrogen ions) to generate neutons when they are fired into a target. It has just been extends with the construction of Target Station Two. DLS is a synchrotron, a 3GeV electron accelerator used to generae high intensity beams of light from far IR to X-ray.
I worked on Daimond for a couple of years on the teams dealing with the PLC systems controlling the vacuum and machine protection systems and on motion control in the beamlines. Very!
RAL also has a cutting edge laser facility and the Space Sciences Division that has produced a lot of systems design and build for satellites like Soho.
ETA: Doh! I really should have checked that it wasn't a thread brought back from the dead! Similar post a few back!
DLS =
. Went to the open day last year. I *heart* Big Science...
Ich bin ein Mod
does his make up in his room
Strange beast a photon, no mass but does have energy.
Photons do have mass,just not when they are at rest. Earlier in the thread there's a graph that shows how mass increases with speed. This zero rest mass of photons allows them to travel at the speed of light.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Now, just if, theoretically, it does go tits up and it creates a black hole - how quickly will we die? Will it be instantaneous? I hope so. I don't want to know it's coming.
/loony doomsayer
/loony doomsayer
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Being instantly pulverised into my component quarks and leptons by an unspeakable pan-dimensional explosion that unravels the very fabric of the entire universe, apparently
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Being instantly pulverised into my component quarks and leptons by an unspeakable pan-dimensional explosion that unravels the very fabric of the entire universe, apparently
That makes me feel better
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
That makes me feel better
Well yes, it's hard to worry about something you will never even notice. One nanosecond you're there, the next nanosecond you ain't there no more; there's plenty of worse ways to go. And if everyone gets obliterated at once then there'll be nobody left to be upset about it either
brix_kitty
minority of one
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Oooo yes can we have the dragons please???
When is "red button day" anyway?
Well given that it will open up a rift in the space time continuum, it will probably happen last week
Well yes, it's hard to worry about something you will never even notice. One nanosecond you're there, the next nanosecond you ain't there no more; there's plenty of worse ways to go. And if everyone gets obliterated at once then there'll be nobody left to be upset about it either
Aye, but you're forgetting time dilation - you know when time seems to go more slowly for the observer... sort of like when you drop something and it seems to take forever to reach the floor.. but you can't get there quick enough...
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Well given that it will open up a rift in the space time continuum, it will probably happen last week
So I'm already dead?
Might as well eat more cake then.
Well given that it will open up a rift in the space time continuum, it will probably happen last week
Me and a friend worked out once that time travel would be a bad thing... because his mum was an absolute fox when she was younger.. and I could have ended up as his dad....
hiccup
King of the Vagabonds
I'll come with you! My friend has a photo of herself standing right in the middle of that massive great tunnel and I'm super jealous
I went to the states with a friend a couple of years ago. Her uncle works at Fermilab, and he gave us a tour of the place, including areas the normal tours don't get to see. It was beyond cool. But... I didn't have my camera with me
undercover
Chopping up Armadillos
What would happen to someone inside this when it is switched on and things are whizzing round at approaching light speed?
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
undercover
Chopping up Armadillos
A tight, yet wavy perm, and a white polo neck?
My, science can be so unpredictable.
My, science can be so unpredictable.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
It's not a perm. He has gently waved hair. Rather swooshy really. Not a perm in sight.
That would be a travesty
undercover
Chopping up Armadillos
oh, is it matey off quantum leap?
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I wasn't sure if you were just being sarcastic or if you genuinely didn't know - so I didn't like to say
steveo87
22/11/2022 - got a maths joke.
WANT!!1! (no idea why I WANT!!1!, i just do, ok?)
My birthdays on the fifth of may, it's may twenty first, do you reckon I could have my parents get me that instead of the ps3 and a pair of cuastom trainers?
They would get a lethal dose of radiation from the synchrotron emissions in a very short time of exposure. Accelerators have very elaborate personnel safety systems that involve physical searches of all areas, search buttons have to be pressed in the right sequence to show searchers have physically been to every accessible point. Starting one is definitely not like hitting a single button in Terminator 3 (and there's very little magnetic field outside of the magnets as that would be a waste of energy)
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Hadron, every time I read it I read Hardon and snigger.
The end of the world is nigh and I'm larfing at stiffies.
The end of the world is nigh and I'm larfing at stiffies.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
longdog
What is it you can't face?
If they do make sure they get you two controllers for it.
I'll take you on at a game of LHC any day biatch!
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