I get tired of taking the day off work every time they say the world will end. My bosses get tired of it too. End already dammit!
Probable Muppet wrote:
.... In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot, large lump of strange matter.
Your mom's a hot, large lump of strange matter.
Tyop
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Posted:
Sep 11 2008 05:20 am
I actually watched the live webcast of the first proton beam being injected into the ring yesterday, because that's the kind of geek I am. I've never seen people get so excited because of two dots appearing on a screen:
huh the google picture is the hadron particle accelerator
username
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Posted:
Oct 17 2009 09:29 pm
bump, because i thought this was an interesting theory. its BS, but still interesting:
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Is the Large Hadron Collider being sabotaged from the future?
What if all the Large Hadron Collider's recent woes are more than bad luck and technical problems? Two noted physicists speculate that the future may be pushing back on the LHC to avert the disaster of observing the Higgs boson.
The quest to observe the Higgs boson has certainly been plagued by its share of troubles, from the cancellation of the Superconducting Supercollider in 1993 to the Large Hadron Collider's streak of technical troubles. In fact, the projects have suffered such bad luck that Holger Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto wonder if it isn't bad luck at all, but future influences rippling back to sabotage them. In papers like "Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal" and "Search for Future Influence From LHC," they put forth the notion that observing the Higgs boson would be such an abhorrent event that the future is actually trying to prevent it from happening.
First ever black hole created on Earth, good for solar energy
No, CERN hasn't started slamming protons into each other at the Large Hadron Collider early. And no, a top secret warp drive hasn't been test-driven in Earth orbit (not that we know of anyway). In reality, an electromagnetic black hole has been fabricated in the laboratory for the first time.
Before you start getting concerned that the planet will soon be swallowed up by a rampaging singularity, the black hole in question isn't the gravitational behemoth you might find after a supernova or in the center of the Milky Way. This particular table-top black hole mimics the curvature of space-time, creating a fabricated event horizon that swallows electromagnetic radiation at microwave wavelengths.
The best thing is that this experiment isn't just for curiosity-sake, it has a practical application that could revolutionize future solar panel design, making the production of solar energy a lot more efficient than it is currently.
Bird Drops Baguette into Large Hadron Collider, Postpones Launch
It is the machine that scientists hope will recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time. But scientists at the £3.6bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found their plans to emulate the big bang postponed this week when a passing bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into the machine, causing it to overheat.
Cern, the European particle physics laboratory, launched the LHC with much fanfare on 10 September last year. Physicists hope to use the collider to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, or God particle, which gives matter in the universe its mass.
But the collider, which when running will collide protons travelling at 99.9% of the speed of light, has been out of action for over a year after a helium leak caused it to be shut down on 19 September 2008, nine days after its start-up.
The particle accelerator, which is buried 100m underground near Geneva, is currently undergoing tests ahead of its proposed restart date later this month, but the testing process was stopped on Monday after the power supply to the collider was cut.
the ghost of christmas past from the future is here.
Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 05:28 am
...so will they be able to transfer the chocolate bar through my TV on Subcon Galaxy 0.74?
GPFontaine
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Location: Connecticut
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 08:26 am
In the 2012 thread I stated that I think this thing could be our fucking doom. If the world does implode in 2012, it will be because we pushed the limits of science with this thing.
Doddsino
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 09:14 am
Nah, don't be so meladramatic. Even if this thing made blackholes and shit, they would never have the power to absorb anything special, plus the conditions for it to even attain mass would be improbable. I'm pretty sure they've mythed this on "MythBusters".
GPFontaine
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 11:18 am
Doddsino wrote:
Nah, don't be so meladramatic. Even if this thing made blackholes and shit, they would never have the power to absorb anything special, plus the conditions for it to even attain mass would be improbable. I'm pretty sure they've mythed this on "MythBusters".
Last time I checked, MythBuster's budget was significantly lower than CERN's. Gravity is the mother of all forces, so I'm betting on it to be smarter than we are.
Optimist With Doubts
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 12:11 pm
If the world is going to HOLY FUCK EXPLODE there isn't anything we can do about it so we may as well ride it out.
sidewaydriver
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 12:48 pm
I'm not afraid of any doomsday device that can be defeated with bread.
Shake it, Quake it, Space Kaboom.
GPFontaine
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 12:58 pm
Optimist With Doubts wrote:
If the world is going to HOLY FUCK EXPLODE there isn't anything we can do about it so we may as well ride it out.
A man made disaster could be avoided. Right?
Berserk007
Title: Freelance Skull Grinder
Joined: Aug 21 2009
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 01:27 pm
I say open it up...Cthulhu needs to eat too.
..and you thought your boss was bad.
For my confession they burned me with fire and found I was for endurance made. - The Arabian Nights
Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 02:28 pm
GPFontaine wrote:
Gravity is the mother of all forces
Gravity is just one of the four fundamental forces. In fact, it's the weakest one by far.
Also if there was any chance of the earth being destroyed by mini black holes we would have been dead a long time ago. The exact same thing that happens in the LHC happens millions of times a day on the moon and in the earth's atmosphere. Yet we're still here.
Optimist With Doubts
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 04:15 pm
GPFontaine wrote:
Optimist With Doubts wrote:
If the world is going to HOLY FUCK EXPLODE there isn't anything we can do about it so we may as well ride it out.
A man made disaster could be avoided. Right?
Well if you think a forum for of guys (and scattered females) armed only with dick jokes and marginal photoshop ability can stop then then go right ahead. I'll be here, being awesome.
username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 04:27 pm
Tyop wrote:
GPFontaine wrote:
Gravity is the mother of all forces
Gravity is just one of the four fundamental forces. In fact, it's the weakest one by far.
Also if there was any chance of the earth being destroyed by mini black holes we would have been dead a long time ago. The exact same thing that happens in the LHC happens millions of times a day on the moon and in the earth's atmosphere. Yet we're still here.
speaking of which, have gravitons been proven yet?
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I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load
Tyop
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 05:48 pm
No, Gravitons are still purely hypothetical. The main purpose of the LHC is to find the Higgs Boson, but there's a small chance that it might indirectly confirm the existence of Gravitons. About a month before the LHC was turned on last year one of my favorite science blogs, Cosmic Variance, had a post on the different things that the LHC might discover. It's worth a read.
username
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Posted:
Nov 09 2009 07:41 pm
cool. i might check that out in between calls.
Klimbatize wrote:
I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load
username
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Posted:
Nov 21 2009 02:40 pm
and we're back on track now:
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Big Bang machine is back!
GENEVA – Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
The nuclear physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider were surprised that they could so quickly get beams of protons whizzing near the speed of light during the restart late Friday, said James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The machine was heavily damaged by a simple electrical fault in September last year.
Some scientists had gone home early Friday and had to be called back as the project jumped ahead, Gillies said.
At a meeting early Saturday "they basically had to tear up the first few pages of their PowerPoint presentation which had outlined the procedures that they were planning to follow," he said. "That was all wrapped up by midnight. They are going through the paces really very fast."
The European Organization for Nuclear Research has taken the restart of the collider step by step to avoid further setbacks as it moves toward new scientific experiments — probably starting in January — regarding the makeup of matter and the universe.
CERN, as it is known, had hoped by 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) Saturday to get the beams to travel the 27-kilometer (17-mile) circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border, but things went so well Friday evening that they had achieved the operation seven hours earlier.
Praise from scientists around the world was quick. "First beam through the Atlas!" whooped an Internet message from Adam Yurkewicz, an American scientist working on the massive Atlas detector on the machine.
"I congratulate the scientists and engineers that have worked to get the LHC back up and running," said Dennis Kovar of the U.S. Department of Energy, which participates in the project.
