Large Hadron Collider

[likesfish]

well if it can blow the entire universe and fuck up other dimensions
Contact might be turning up want a word in someone's ear like

 

[iROBOT]

well if it can blow the entire universe and fuck up other dimensions
Contact might be turning up want a word in someone's ear like

Now wouldn't that be exciting!

I heard that the "internet" link between the various locations is 10,000 faster then broadband...

Awesome project.

 

[likesfish]

brilliant cutting edge stuff and for once it isn't designed to kill people

 

[Rikbikboo]

anyone know where the video is that shows what happens if it does infact create a black hole. (its a video showing the earth being swallowed up into a lovely cute mini black one.

 

[Moped]

Either way its progress - which can never be a bad thing

 

[MikeMcc]

Now wouldn't that be exciting!

I heard that the "internet" link between the various locations is 10,000 faster then broadband...

Awesome project.

They had a trial of the datalink between the LHC and RAL about 2 years ago to check if it agffected any of the other systems at RAL. I can't remember the speed of the transfer now, but I remember being pretty gobsmacked by it!

 

[kyser_soze]

well if it can blow the entire universe and fuck up other dimensions
Contact might be turning up want a word in someone's ear like

Y'know what, I hadn't thought of that.

MENTAL!!

 

[bluestreak]

Either way its progress - which can never be a bad thing

Even if it destroys the universe?

I wonder if they'll let me press one of the death buttons.

 

[T & P]

Will the Discworld be safe?

 

[damnhippie]

Either way its progress - which can never be a bad thing

yes, a break from this whole 'existence' thing would do wonders. my feet are killing me.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Will the Discworld be safe?

I'm beginning to suspect that the Discworld is actually more real than the real world. There are everyday absurdities in our society that even Pratchett could never dream up...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

anyone know where the video is that shows what happens if it does infact create a black hole. (its a video showing the earth being swallowed up into a lovely cute mini black one.

Hold on though, with a mass that great wouldn't time slow down to almost nothing? We would live for thousands of years. Yay.

Oh no wait it's all relative.

Balls.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

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....

Time travel will only begin from red button day onwards (red button day will be as far as you can go back), so no need to worry about that.

 

[Dillinger4]

I still read this as the large hardon collider.

Every single time.

 

[Boycey]

well if it can blow the entire universe and fuck up other dimensions
Contact might be turning up want a word in someone's ear like

surely it's SC who'll be dealing with such a situation? do you reckon this could be an OCP?

 

[kyser_soze]

surely it's SC who'll be dealing with such a situation? do you reckon this could be an OCP?

So are you saying that the mad Hawaiin botanist who's taken out a lawsuit against CERN in the US is in fact an SC agent?

 

[bigbry]

I've made something very similar to this in my garage
It's built with a zx spectrum at the core of it's technology and i used parts from my old beta-max video recorder, a Vauxhall Zafira and some chicken wire i had left over from a papier mache project.

I'm going to test it Sunday if anyone wants to pop round.

It won't work - you have to use parts from a Vauxhall Nova (preferably an '84 model).

Should be OK then.

 

[DotCommunist]

So are you saying that the mad Hawaiin botanist who's taken out a lawsuit against CERN in the US is in fact an SC agent?

It's the sort of cover I could see an SC agent taking

 

[puck]

I missed this thread coming up. My brother and my Dad are working on this thing at the moment. They both work at Rutherford Appleton too. When I try to get my Dad to explain what's going on with it, I can understand for about 20 mins then I completely lose the thread. I didn't inherit the particle physicist brains in my family.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I read something about this today. Apparently, even the physicists working on it think there is a 1%- 10% chance that the collider will create dark matter or black holes that will consume the earth.

 

[Poi E]

I read something about this today. Apparently, even the physicists working on it think there is a 1%- 10% chance that the collider will create dark matter or black holes that will consume the earth.

Good answer to climate change.

 

[gnoriac]

I read something about this today. Apparently, even the physicists working on it think there is a 1%- 10% chance that the collider will create dark matter or black holes that will consume the earth.

And they still want to go ahead with it?

 

[Bonfirelight]

And they still want to go ahead with it?

i like those odds

 

[spacemonkey]

I read something about this today. Apparently, even the physicists working on it think there is a 1%- 10% chance that the collider will create dark matter or black holes that will consume the earth.

1-10%?!

Nah.

Link?

 

[SpookyFrank]

I read something about this today. Apparently, even the physicists working on it think there is a 1%- 10% chance that the collider will create dark matter or black holes that will consume the earth.

If it gets rid of coldplay then it's worth it.

 

[longdog]

I read something about this today. Apparently, even the physicists working on it think there is a 1%- 10% chance that the collider will create dark matter or black holes that will consume the earth.

Rubbish.

Linky?

 

[Crispy]

complete rubbish. cosmic rays hit each other at similar energies billions of times a second completely safely. they're hitting you right now. note the abscence of black holes.

 

[longdog]

complete rubbish. cosmic rays hit each other at similar energies billions of times a second completely safely. they're hitting you right now. note the abscence of black holes.

My t-shirt is full of holes

Damn you cosmic rays... damn you all to hell!!!

<shakes fist at sky>

 

[gnoriac]

i like those odds

[Goes off to Betfair]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

And they still want to go ahead with it?

Yep. There are other scientists who are trying to get it stopped.