CERN power up their big bad boy

What is it? And can it make my breakfast?
 
I managed to fool the kids where I work into thinking a weighted hoop was a Large Hadron Collider once.

Suprisingly, one of them actually knew what it was.
 
Been there! Infact I had a guided tour around the whole place, and got the jigsaw which has that detector on it... hmm what was it called again urgh i can't remember. Anyway judging by that picture, thats no where near what the completed one looks like. When I went all that middle bit was filled in and they were preparing to put the muon detector plates on the outside.

Some interesting facts I learnt: CERN holds the coldest place in the universe as we know it (1.6K the liquid helium is cooled to I believe.)

99% of the worlds liquid Helium is situated at CERN and is used to cool the super-conductors that power the magnet that runs at anywhere up to 8 Tesla's! (To put that in to perspective the Earth's magnetic field is only about 50 microTesla's.)

The main foyar you walk in has a scintilator built in to the floor that flashs blue, red or green when it is hit by various types of radiation of different energies.

And if you happen to ever have lunch at CERN, don't be wearing braces else you'll find your knives and forks sticking to them as they've all turned magnetic :p Oh and be sure to go talk to one of the many nobel prize winners too if you can!

If anyone wants I can upload some of my pics from the trip, if I can find my old camera.
 
TheHamster22 said:
Been there! Infact I had a guided tour around the whole place, and got the jigsaw which has that detector on it... hmm what was it called again urgh i can't remember. Anyway judging by that picture, thats no where near what the completed one looks like. When I went all that middle bit was filled in and they were preparing to put the muon detector plates on the outside.

Some interesting facts I learnt: CERN holds the coldest place in the universe as we know it (1.6K the liquid helium is cooled to I believe.)

99% of the worlds liquid Helium is situated at CERN and is used to cool the super-conductors that power the magnet that runs at anywhere up to 8 Tesla's! (To put that in to perspective the Earth's magnetic field is only about 50 microTesla's.)

The main foyar you walk in has a scintilator built in to the floor that flashs blue, red or green when it is hit by various types of radiation of different energies.

And if you happen to ever have lunch at CERN, don't be wearing braces else you'll find your knives and forks sticking to them as they've all turned magnetic :p Oh and be sure to go talk to one of the many nobel prize winners too if you can!

If anyone wants I can upload some of my pics from the trip, if I can find my old camera.
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of course, dude! what are you waiting for! :cheers:
 
TheHamster22 said:
Been there! Infact I had a guided tour around the whole place, and got the jigsaw which has that detector on it... hmm what was it called again urgh i can't remember. Anyway judging by that picture, thats no where near what the completed one looks like. When I went all that middle bit was filled in and they were preparing to put the muon detector plates on the outside.

Some interesting facts I learnt: CERN holds the coldest place in the universe as we know it (1.6K the liquid helium is cooled to I believe.)

99% of the worlds liquid Helium is situated at CERN and is used to cool the super-conductors that power the magnet that runs at anywhere up to 8 Tesla's! (To put that in to perspective the Earth's magnetic field is only about 50 microTesla's.)

The main foyar you walk in has a scintilator built in to the floor that flashs blue, red or green when it is hit by various types of radiation of different energies.

And if you happen to ever have lunch at CERN, don't be wearing braces else you'll find your knives and forks sticking to them as they've all turned magnetic :p Oh and be sure to go talk to one of the many nobel prize winners too if you can!

If anyone wants I can upload some of my pics from the trip, if I can find my old camera.
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So.. its like a big cold magnet with lights.

Might sound like a stupid question but is the Magnetic field it produces kept inside a certain area? I mean, they wouldnt be able to have any electronics nearby would they?
 
I have something to tell you all in case we die...I hate you all.

<3 the peniiownage though.
 
finally they're making a fleshlight for my size genitals.
 
There was a 2 hour documentary on the discovery channel on the making of CERN..one of the best docs i've ever seen.

When is it supposed to be up and running? When it is, how long until we can either prove or disprove string theory?
 
I don't think anybody here knows how amazing it must have been to a welders point of view. They probably had to work with some rare and exotic metals which they have never worked with. I mean it has the coldest know materials known to the universe! It's colder than outer space! A common welding process used by welders is stick welding. Normally the machine is pumping out 110Amps or so and the weld pool is hotter than the surface of the sun! Yet this thing is putting out 21 thousand amps! Can you imagine hot this gets?! It is seriously scary if something goes wrong cause it just might suck out all the iron out of the earth....including the iron in your body (like Xmen 2). :rolling: :rolling: :rolling:
 
More info: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/11/21/mwonders.cern/

The machine tells us the: "Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything". While I didn't pull that out of my ass but it rather came from the movie "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" that is what they are trying to find. The scary part though is that this machine could suck up everything including God, Heaven, Hell, and heck even the universe itself. The chances of it happening are extremely unlikely but thats what Dr. Kleiner said too. But there is still a chance it might happen which is frightening. I find it ironic that the scientists crunched data to find those numbers. Wonder if they could tell us what might happen if it did suck in the universe? Also how the heck does the universe get sucked into a machine like that? I mean when comparing that to the universe it's smaller than like, an atom?! :eek: :eek:
 
I just got this brilliant question: where in the hell do they find the electricity to power this up? Some bolts of lightning have been recorded with 200Amps but this machine operates at max with 201Amps. To put that in comparison a single bolt of lightning can:

1) Light 150,000,000 light bulbs.
2) One storm can discharge enough energy to supply the entire U.S. with electricity for 20 minutes.

But this machine is supposed to run constantly but not like a long time. Still you need 201Amps and maybe more when they turn on the switch because there is that initial surge of electricity at the start.
 
so if a scientist get very depresed he just push the "suck evertyhing" buttom and we all die?
 
The machine tells us the: "Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything".
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Wasn't the answer 44?
I thought it was obvious myself.

I mean that number basically explains how the universe came to be. My original estimate was around 47. I was so close!!
 
Cole said:
Wasn't the answer 44?
I thought it was obvious myself.

I mean that number basically explains how the universe came to be. My original estimate was around 47. I was so close!!
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Yeah it was. I lasted about 10 min into the movie watching it on some channel that I just turned it. Other than that joke the movie sucked imo.
 
What's the point of making a huge thing like that? Why didn't they just use an old magnet and... turn it up to 11 or something?
 
hool10 said:
I just got this brilliant question: where in the hell do they find the electricity to power this up? Some bolts of lightning have been recorded with 200Amps but this machine operates at max with 201Amps. To put that in comparison a single bolt of lightning can:

1) Light 150,000,000 light bulbs.
2) One storm can discharge enough energy to supply the entire U.S. with electricity for 20 minutes.

But this machine is supposed to run constantly but not like a long time. Still you need 201Amps and maybe more when they turn on the switch because there is that initial surge of electricity at the start.
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That's because Lightning is at a much higher voltage than this device.

Power = Current x Voltage.
I'd guess It's a thousand times less powerful than a lightning bolt.

Also a storm consists of many thousands of lightning bolts. So that's another factor of 10^3.
 
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