The End is nigh!!!

Daemos

Did anyone else think it was called the Large Hadron Collander? Because I did

Jesus Wept

seamus wrote: »

I love how you have pretty much every respected scientist in the world excited about this thing and confident that there's a better chance of winning the lotto than destroying the world, yet it just takes one crackpot to get the media all in a frenzy.

Oh wait, it's the daily mail. They probably just invented the crackpot.

I suppose, "Science experiment gone awry to destroy world" is much more fun than, "Scientists understand more of world. Rest of population now proportionally stupider."

On the other hand ....

..scientists smientists.



...makes you think.

DaPoolRulz

DaPoolRulz wrote: »

Did anyone else think it was called the Large Hadron Collander? Because I did

Deleted User wrote: »

For weeks I thought it was called a colander bloody dyslexia...

Yep

jumpguy

On a serious note for a second, does anyone know where to find more information about the LHC timetable? I only get my info from the BBC and they're great but they don't say when anything is happening.

I wanna know if they'll find the Higgs Bison Waldo

jumpguy

jumpguy wrote: »

On a serious note for a second, does anyone know where to find more information about the LHC timetable? I only get my info from the BBC and they're great but they don't say when anything is happening.

I wanna know if they'll find the Higgs Bison Waldo

Try the official website http://lhc.web.cern.ch/

DigiGal

espinolman wrote: »

Size matters not .

Thats what she said last night










*sorry couldn't resist

Nulty

jumpguy wrote: »

On a serious note for a second, does anyone know where to find more information about the LHC timetable? I only get my info from the BBC and they're great but they don't say when anything is happening.

I wanna know if they'll find the Higgs Bison Waldo

Did you grow up with Waldo? His name was Wally when I was a kid...?

dr.bollocko

DaPoolRulz wrote: »

Did anyone else think it was called the Large Hadron Collander? Because I did

I was going with large Hardon collider after a cruelly edited thread in AH. Damn those corrupt mods.

Victor

espinolman wrote: »

Also there is no higgs boson , they are just messing around , there are probably doing all this for research grants , they make up these theories and then build these particle accelerators and it is really all about money .

I could come up with lots of theories and smash particles into each other , but i would use a sledge hammer , much more cost effective to use a sledge hammer or an axe .

And theres a lot more of the €5 billion research grant left over for "overheads".

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Because the ISS would be able to stay that close to the event horizon of a black hole without getting sucked in......

We know nothing about black holes, stop pretending we do, what scientists believe, are just theories... Nothing more.

jumpguy

Deleted User wrote: »

Try the official website http://lhc.web.cern.ch/

CERN can't be really praised for a user-friendly website anyway.

DigiGal wrote: »

Thats not what she said last night

FYP

WoollyRedHat

I didn't sign up for this.

When does it restart again?

Sleipnir

Started up on again and fired a few shots on Friday but actual experiments aren't due to start until early 2010.

Sleipnir

jumpguy wrote: »

CERN can't be really praised for a user-friendly website anyway.


FYP

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055746608

Sleipnir

espinolman wrote: »

Also there is no higgs boson , they are just messing around , there are probably doing all this for research grants , they make up these theories and then build these particle accelerators and it is really all about money .
.

Let me get this straight then.
They build particle accelerators for no other reason but to get research grants....to build more particle accelerators for which they'll get more research grants which they will use to build more particle accelerators.......?

WoollyRedHat

Sleipnir wrote: »

Started up on again and fired a few shots on Friday but actual experiments aren't due to start until early 2010.

Cheers. Will they broadcast it?

Sleipnir

Well, they announced that the initial testing was successful. Here they are celebrating

Tommy_NDX

And not a looker in the bunch.

Sleipnir

Tommy_NDX wrote: »

And not a looker in the bunch.

I know. They didn't even get a stripper.

Victor

Sleipnir wrote: »

Let me get this straight then.
They build particle accelerators for no other reason but to get research grants....to build more particle accelerators for which they'll get more research grants which they will use to build more particle accelerators.......?

Why do you think the machines are circular? :pac:

espinolman

Sleipnir wrote: »

Let me get this straight then.
They build particle accelerators for no other reason but to get research grants....to build more particle accelerators for which they'll get more research grants which they will use to build more particle accelerators.......?

No , the way it works is , they discover how to build a better bomb with the particle accelerator , and then they build one and test it on a couple of cities full of people , somewhere like japan , and then they build more bombs and more bombs and they just keep building them for 'defence' , but it is really about money and power .

Zombienosh

...but i like cheese.

biko

BaZmO* wrote: »

This Wednesday to be precise.

Four years after Wednesday, give or take

Within four years, one of these 'celestial vacuums' could have swollen to such a size that it is capable of sucking the Earth inside-out,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3iryBLZCOQ

electrogrimey

Sleipnir wrote: »

Well, they announced that the initial testing was successful. Here they are celebrating

Those pictures'd be perfect for a Have I Got News For You caption contest.

rizzee

Ahhh here OP could you be anymore pessimistic... you've got 2 and a bit more years to live so stop being a grumpy little girl.

electrogrimey

rizzee wrote: »

Ahhh here OP could you be anymore pessimistic... you've got 2 and a bit more years to live so stop being a grumpy little girl.

1st off, after a year I doubt he's going to respond, and 2nd, I think there's it's at least 99% tongue-in-cheek.

Sleipnir

espinolman wrote: »

No , the way it works is , they discover how to build a better bomb with the particle accelerator , and then they build one and test it on a couple of cities full of people , somewhere like japan , and then they build more bombs and more bombs and they just keep building them for 'defence' , but it is really about money and power .

So can you explain how, specifically, these experiments will result in new bomb technology?

BaZmO*

rizzee wrote: »

Ahhh here OP could you be anymore pessimistic... you've got 2 and a bit more years to live so stop being a grumpy little girl.

LOL

Blazer

Are we dead yet?

espinolman

Sleipnir wrote: »

So can you explain how, specifically, these experiments will result in new bomb technology?

Just like in the twentieth century , they start a war and then build them and the stupid guillible scientists act surprised when the technology they developed is used to against mankind .

History will repeat itself .

And also any technology which comes from CERN thats helps people will be suppressed as usual .

Sleipnir

espinolman wrote: »

Just like in the twentieth century , they start a war and then build them and the stupid guillible scientists act surprised when the technology they developed is used to against mankind .

History will repeat itself .

And also any technology which comes from CERN thats helps people will be suppressed as usual .

So basically, your answer to my question is "no, I can't"
Thanks.

BaZmO*

Sleipnir wrote: »

Well, they announced that the initial testing was successful. Here they are celebrating

French Scientists celebrate Thierry Henry's dubious goal against the Republic of Ireland last Wednesday.

Sleipnir

BaZmO* wrote: »

French Scientists celebrate Thierry Henry's dubious goal against the Republic of Ireland last Wednesday.

You work for 'The Sun' don't you?

hooradiation

Chase Agreeable Goose-step wrote: »

We know nothing about black holes, stop pretending we do, what scientists believe, are just theories... Nothing more.

We know plenty about black holes, stop being silly.

Well they've cracked one off!!!


and we're still here!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8375486.stm

Cern's Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions
By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News


The LHC's tunnel runs for 27km under the Franco-Swiss border

Engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have smashed together proton beams in the machine for the very first time.

The step was described as a "great achievement" for those working on the huge physics experiment.

jumpguy

A disappointing report by the BBC. Everytime they report on the LHC 1/10s of the article is made up current affairs, the other 9/10s of it is just rehashing the same ole information...When will we have results, for example?

Sleipnir

jumpguy wrote: »

A disappointing report by the BBC. Everytime they report on the LHC 1/10s of the article is made up current affairs, the other 9/10s of it is just rehashing the same ole information...When will we have results, for example?

The experiments don't start until early 2010

smk89

Its started already.
But I dont feel any different. Where are the super powers we were promiced?

Cokeistan

hahahahaha i remember the frenzy before they tried this last time too...

i was in school and we had a prayer over the intercom

smk89

Cokeistan wrote: »

i was in school and we had a prayer over the intercom

You've got be be kidding!

Cokeistan

smk89 wrote: »

You've got be be kidding!

nope out principal was a nun! xD

Cokeistan

Cokeistan wrote: »

nope out principal was a nun! xD

What nunsense. :pac:

jumpguy

Cokeistan wrote: »

hahahahaha i remember the frenzy before they tried this last time too...

i was in school and we had a prayer over the intercom

Are you fucking serious...I don't mind praying, but praying the LHC won't destroy the world is something you keep to yourself...and don't ask for a giant school prayer in...over an intercom. Imagine all those sitting in a physics class...

Cokeistan

jumpguy wrote: »

Are you fucking serious...I don't mind praying, but praying the LHC won't destroy the world is something you keep to yourself...and don't ask for a giant school prayer in...over an intercom. Imagine all those sitting in a physics class...

i think i was in biology at the time

Turtwig

Praying that the LHC won't destroy the world, or would destroy it?
She wasn't a nun expecting the rapture was she?

Cokeistan

Malty_T wrote: »

Praying that the LHC won't destroy the world, or would destroy it?
She wasn't a nun expecting the rapture was she?

she was all like if the world ends today i want everyone to pray for there loved ones etc xD

Yakult

I will start worrying about the LHC when they can actually get it working. I believe they are having lots of problems

Well, it's not like the "golden shot" ..up a bit, left a bit, down a bit -FIRE


It could take months to get the thing "tuned for maximum smoke!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAsyZTVO2Jo

ejmaztec

Here we go again - plenty enough time to stock up on the toilet-paper.:eek:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/28/large-hadron-collider-restarts

Cern nuclear team restarts Large Hadron Collider

Operators hope world's biggest atom smasher will reveal some secrets of the universe.

Operators of the world's largest atom smasher restarted their massive machine today in a run-up to experiments probing secrets of the universe. After a cautious trial period, Cern (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) plans to ramp up the energy of the proton beams travelling around the 17-mile tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border at Geneva to unprecedented levels – and start record-setting collisions of protons by late March. The restart follows a two and a half month winter shutdown during which scientists made improvements and checked out the smasher's ability to collide protons at energies three times greater than has ever been achieved previously.
The new collisions are expected to shatter the subatomic particles and reveal still smaller fragments and forces than previously achieved on any collider, including the previous record-holder – the Tevatron at Fermilab outside Chicago.
The Large Hadron Collider was built to examine suspected phenomena such as dark matter, antimatter and ultimately the creation of the universe billions of years ago, which many theorize occurred as an explosion known as the Big Bang.
The restart follows successful trial runs late last year when Cern showed that it had made a big comeback from its initial 10 September, 2008, start-up with great fanfare. The machine was sidetracked nine days later when a badly soldered electrical splice overheated and set off a chain of damage to the magnets and other parts of the collider.
Cern had to undertake a $40m (£26m) programme of repairs and improvements over 14 months before it was ready to retry the machine at the end of November. Then the collider performed almost flawlessly, giving scientists valuable data in the four-week run before Christmas.
"They learned a lot which they've gone away and digested, and now they're trying to make adjustments," spokeswoman Christine Sutton said.
Cern specialists have checked out and improved electrical connections and other parts of the machine since the shutdown, but still want to take further steps to make sure the collider is ready to operate at higher energy.
"There's a long way to go between getting the first bunches of protons to go around and actually getting the machine to its top working levels," Sutton said.
"It's a lot like having designed a Formula One racing car. The first time you send it out, the guy doesn't go round the circuit as fast as he can. You have to learn about the controls, how the car handles."
At its greatest energy, the atom smasher collided two beams of circulating particles travelling in opposite directions at 1.18 trillion electron volts, or TeV, about 20% higher than the previous record set at Fermilab.
After the current cautious restart, Cern will ramp up the energy pushing the beams of protons still higher, to three and a half times the highest levels reached in Chicago. The showers of particles created at that level are expected to reveal still more about the makeup of matter.
The long-term goal, after more modifications, will be to run the proton beams at seven TeV in each direction, but Cern has decided that it will continue its cautious approach and run at three and a half TeV for 18-24 months. Then a long shutdown will allow for further improvements for operation at the full design energy.

I just hope they're not using the same scientific methods used to calculate Global warming!