The End is nigh!!!

Hagar

Excellent stuff! So exactly who, out of the starving millions on the planet, will get a meal from this tomorrow?

The_Hustler

A greater understanding of particles, which in the past has led to the development of chemo. Maybe more knowledge of the phenomena such as the big bang. I don't know any more, just saw someone say that on the tv this morning.

ejmaztec

Hagar wrote: »

Excellent stuff! So exactly who, out of the starving millions on the planet, will get a meal from this tomorrow?

You haven't lived if you haven't had a self-cooking Higgs Boson-burger, heavy on the mayo.

Conor108

It's Gonna cure cancer now Jaysus we should've built two:D

Dave!

Hagar wrote: »

Excellent stuff! So exactly who, out of the starving millions on the planet, will get a meal from this tomorrow?

Yes indeed I forgot poverty and starvation would be eradicated were it not for all the money going towards the LHC!

is_that_so

Dave! wrote: »

Yes indeed I forgot poverty and starvation would be eradicated were it not for all the money going towards the LHC!

Military spending mightn't be a bad place to start.

World military expenditure is estimated to have been $1339 billion in 2007—a real-terms increase of 6 per cent over 2006 and of 45 per cent since 1998. This corresponded to 2.5 per cent of world gross domestic product (GDP) and $202 for each person in the world.
...

thelordofcheese

Deleted User wrote: »

I have a silly question..


What use is this exactly?

I mean, when they find out what they want to find out; what do they do with it?

Does it open the doors to new smaller/better technology? Does it bring us any closer to living like the Jetsons?


All i've heard is that it can destroy the world if it goes bad, but i haven't heard the positive effect it will have on us...

It's the best kind of science, the one that is in the persuit of pure knowledge.

Riddle101

When was this projects started by the way? I'm not talking about the time or anything, i never knew about this things until last week. They must of spent years making this thing underground so when was it started?

AlkalineAcid

I think it's taken 14 years to build.

BaZmO*

Hagar wrote: »

Excellent stuff! So exactly who, out of the starving millions on the planet, will get a meal from this tomorrow?

Deleted User wrote: »

I have a silly question..


What use is this exactly?

I mean, when they find out what they want to find out; what do they do with it?

Two questions in one.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdCqtnS_cOA

Ross_Mahon

I hope they serve beer in hell...:(

Aodan83

Has the LHC not got its own forum yet, no? There are enough threads about it. More than the mustard forum, but then, mustard....

dsmythy

is_that_so wrote: »

Military spending mightn't be a bad place to start.

Luckily this isn't a military project then..... yet.

Ross_Mahon

It would be great if this was like Half Life, And the US army go in and shoot everyone.

Setun

I saw an interview with a guy who said it could be used to cure cancer or something along those lines. No joke, it was on bbc news on wednesday morning.

/EDIT damn just saw the post at the top of this page :rolleyes:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Out of malicious curiosirty and devil's advocatism, what exactly what would we have witnessed had it gone/goes pear shaped?

AtomicHorror

Hagar wrote: »

Excellent stuff! So exactly who, out of the starving millions on the planet, will get a meal from this tomorrow?

Ask their governments where the money went. Not into the LHC.

AtomicHorror

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Out of malicious curiosirty and devil's advocatism, what exactly what would we have witnessed had it gone/goes pear shaped?

Not sure if they'd be able to spot it directly. More that the experiment wouldn't produce the expected output. After that, some earthquakes. Then worse ones. Then the planet would implode a bit to the sound of Walter L Wagner saying "I told y-".

smokingman

Found some live webcams of the place - mad looking machinery...

LHC LiveCam

EDIT: ooooer....something seems to be up with it...few sparks coming from it there a few mins ago.....

Krieg

Naos wrote: »

Well it's official. We are fcuked

Sigh...

I for one welcome our new Combine overlords

(That pic made me die a little inside)

Aodan83

Naos wrote: »

Well it's official. We are fcuked

Sigh...

That can't be a coincidence. Either he did that on purpose or we are as f*cked as the link suggests.

eVeNtInE

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eVeNtInE

eVeNtInE wrote: »

Uh oh.

Oh thats good. People who are against it are going to hack computers and make sure something DOES go wrong.


Really though.. €5,000,000,000 and someone can hack into it?

Bleh..



(did i use the right amount of 0's?)

Posy

Has the world ended yet?

eVeNtInE

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aidan24326

Deleted User wrote:

I have a silly question..


What use is this exactly?

I mean, when they find out what they want to find out; what do they do with it?

Does it open the doors to new smaller/better technology? Does it bring us any closer to living like the Jetsons?


All i've heard is that it can destroy the world if it goes bad, but i haven't heard the positive effect it will have on us...

It was never going to destroy the world. That idea was put out there by one or two crackpots and lapped up by a scientifically illiterate media.

The benefits of fundamental research in physics aren't always immediately apparent, but more often than not it leads to new technologies in the future whether that was the intention or not. If the LHC experiments are successful (i.e they verify the existence of the subatomic particle called the Higgs Boson) that will not only be a big breakthrough in theoretical physics but will likely lead to future breakthroughs in technology aswell. Remember that most of our modern technology only exists because some mad physicists in the past did research that people of their time might have considered loony/bizarre/a waste of time.

Posy

I like the fact Paddy Power were taking bets on the world ending. I can imagine some beraggled survivor stepping over rubble and corpses struggling to find a betting shop open so he could collect his winnings..

I find it ironic that the people that could destroy us all are supposedly the most peaceful.

Caderyn

Caderyn wrote: »

I like the fact Paddy Power were taking bets on the world ending. I can imagine some beraggled survivor stepping over rubble and corpses struggling to find a betting shop open so he could collect his winnings..

What kind of odds are there?

rossie1977

Caderyn wrote: »

I like the fact Paddy Power were taking bets on the world ending. I can imagine some beraggled survivor stepping over rubble and corpses struggling to find a betting shop open so he could collect his winnings..

there were probably people stupid enough to take that bet, if the world ended there would be no survivors so no payout under any circumstances :P

CHD

rossie1977 wrote: »

there were probably people stupid enough to take that bet, if the world ended there would be no survivors so no payout under any circumstances :P

Would never have guessed.

Conor108

Sorry to revive this thread (kinda). Thought if I made a new thread I'd be banned in a second.

Anyway:

BHOPAL, India - A teenage girl in central India killed herself on Wednesday after being traumatized by media reports that a "Big Bang" experiment in Europe could bring about the end of the world, her father said.

Full Story

SantryRed

rossie1977 wrote: »

there were probably people stupid enough to take that bet, if the world ended there would be no survivors so no payout under any circumstances :P

No way!

Fcuk!

Never thought of that.

How stupid is that post?:pac::pac:

Honey-ec

Conor108 wrote: »

Sorry to revive this thread (kinda). Thought if I made a new thread I'd be banned in a second.

Anyway:


Full Story

Darwin Award ftw

Dave!

Conor108 wrote: »

Sorry to revive this thread (kinda). Thought if I made a new thread I'd be banned in a second.

Anyway:


Full Story

Moron

Obviously didn't wanna be spaghettified!

Prof.Badass

all they did was a test run. They haven't done any collisions yet.

If this machine does destroy the world, it won't happen untill they do a collision.

Dave!

vinylmesh wrote: »

all they did was a test run. They haven't done any collisions yet.

If this machine does destroy the world, it won't happen untill they do a collision.

I like your optimism!

faceman

The LHC needs more cowbell.

vinylmesh

vinylmesh wrote: »

all they did was a test run. They haven't done any collisions yet.

If this machine does destroy the world, it won't happen untill they do a collision.

Sure, they could just practice using just about any single lane road and send two cars towards each other at max speed

collision = successful test.

Turd Ferguson

Deleted User wrote: »

collision = successful test.

Only if you're in one of the cars :P

Turd Ferguson

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Only if you're in one of the cars :P

and you're in the other

chin_grin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7616622.stm

Part of the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was hacked into as the world's most powerful physics experiment got under way.

A group calling itself the "Greek Security Team" hacked into a computer connected to the system last Wednesday........

antodeco

chin_grin wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7616622.stm

I for one welcome our new....*******suuuuuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkkkk****

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dr.bollocko

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34068157/ns/technology_and_science-science/

They're only going to go and turn the universal death machine on again.
Doomed!

myflipflops

It;s on the Swiss/French border apparently. The French will be first to go....

I'd consider that reasonable karma.

TomTom

It will be fine, those French are quite handy...

dr.bollocko

pwhite587 wrote: »

It;s on the Swiss/French border apparently. The French will be first to go....

I'd consider that reasonable karma.

TomTom wrote: »

It will be fine, those French are quite handy...

Didn't even take one post after the bump to get a dig in!

DigiGal

particle smashing commences at 0600......enjoy your night




By the way...all this end of the world ****e.....complete bollox. Although after reading some of the posts in this thread I kind of wish it wasn't

dr.bollocko

DigiGal wrote: »

particle smashing commences at 0600......enjoy your night




By the way...all this end of the world ****e.....complete bollox.

You won't be saying that when you're compressed into a singularity by evil science. Beware!! Repent!!!!

DigiGal

But...I wanna be spagettified

please

I will not be repenting.....I will be praising physics....Go Physics WOOT