I just got a Hadron

European pride.
LHC is absolutely amazing place, I was about to visit Geneva and CERN with Mensa but it failed.
Can't wait for our final experiment.

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When in may?

I want to be able to at least be able to play most of a month worth of GTA IV and also enjoy my birthday before existence for us ceases to be.
 
I read about this thing last year and I did not understand a damn thing about it. Very interesting though.
 
That thing is officialy awesome.

Which of these is bigger:

1. The Moon

2. An Elephant

3. LHC

4. ????

5. Profit!
 
I remember seeing this before, but being too lazy to learn anything about it. Whats it do? Make black holes and shit?
 
From what I can tell:

1. They take a bunch of sub-atomic particles.
2. They accelerate them around a circular tube in opposite directions until they reach 99.9999999% the speed of light.
3. They crash them into each other.
4. ??????

I predict a Resonance Cascade. Let's hope CERN have MIT graduates in HEV suits at the time of the experiment.
 
Apocalypse89 said:
From what I can tell:

1. They take a bunch of sub-atomic particles.
2. They accelerate them around a circular tube in opposite directions until they reach 99.9999999% the speed of light.
3. They crash them into each other.
4. ??????

I predict a Resonance Cascade. Let's hope CERN have MIT graduates in HEV suits at the time of the experiment.
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It's funny that your name is Apocalypse.
 
Apocalypse89 said:
From what I can tell:

1. They take a bunch of sub-atomic particles.
2. They accelerate them around a circular tube in opposite directions until they reach 99.9999999% the speed of light.
3. They crash them into each other.
4. ??????
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That's about it...Big speculation as to weather or not tiny little black holes will be created....
 
So where's the actual scientific benefit if it doesn't end the world?
 
To recreate the conditions that existed billionths of a second after the Big Bang....Why do they wanna do that? I'm not sure...curiosity?...because they can?...trying to earn a Nobel Peace Prize?
 
They're scientists. They don't need a reason to do sciency things.
 
Have they assured the administrator that nothing will go wrong?
 
BTW, am I the only one who got incredibly pissed off when they saw the scientist at the beginning of the video?

I mean, scientists are supposed to wear huge lab coats all the time and talk like 19th century English aristocrats. That guy actually appeared...dare I say it? cool. That's just unacceptable.
 
Krynn72 said:
So is that a yes to the black holes?
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There is a very small possibility to create micro black holes but they would quickly decay by Hawking radiation.

Apocalypse89 said:
I predict a Resonance Cascade. Let's hope CERN have MIT graduates in HEV suits at the time of the experiment.
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Well, they have guys like Stephen Hawking.

Vegeta897 said:
So where's the actual scientific benefit if it doesn't end the world?
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It would be greatest contribution to physics since Einstein. Big deal.

Apocalypse89 said:
BTW, am I the only one who got incredibly pissed off when they saw the scientist at the beginning of the video?
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Brian Cox is a cool physicist. Not cool as Sir Martin Rees but still cool enough. One of characters in movie Sunshine was based on him.
 
Vegeta897 said:
So where's the actual scientific benefit if it doesn't end the world?
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1. This will finally tell us whether or not string theory is correct. If string theory is right, the CERN collider should be able to reveal the properties of the strings. If not, it will reveal something else. It will also be able to tell us whether or not there are other tiny dimensions within the subatomic particles other than the three we observe in the everyday world.

2. This might reveal the Graviton, a theoretical particle responsible for gravity. If we find the graviton, and find that it pops in and out of existence, it will be evidence of the existence of parallel universes. If we discover that gravitons can leak out into parallel universes, it might allow us to discover the properties of those other universes, and perhaps learn something new about the birth of our own universe, as well as discover what gravity really is.

3.It might create tiny black holes. This would be a very exciting discovery, because it would allow us to examine the properties of these black holes and better understand the giant ones out in space.

4. It might also reveal the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

5. ??? - It most certainly will discover something completely new which nobody has even thought of yet. It could discover new forces, particles, fundamental constants, anything really, we must simply wait to see what data starts pouring out of it.
 
theotherguy said:
3.It might create tiny black holes. This would be a very exciting discovery, because it would allow us to examine the properties of these black holes and better understand the giant ones out in space.
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Black Holes? I don't give a sh** how much we can learn from this, you are not making a Black Hole on this planet unless im already dead.
 
They need to eventually invent a black hole bomb, that would be awesome yet horrifying and have a terrible back lash...
 
upon watching the video...this is truly like black mesa. really scary :o
 
Some physicists are trying to keep the LHC from powering up, believing it could create mini black holes that won't dissipate or
stranglets, a particle that would convert every particle it touches into a stranglet...
 
Cool, the company I'm going to be working for after graduation (NI) is doing all the DAQ and stuff for this. This makes me +1 cool. However, if this causes the end of the world this gives me a -2 cool. darm.
 
Was I the only one who read "I just got a hard on" in the thread title? Anyways awesome, watching brain cox vid now.
 
TimoJay said:
Cool, the company I'm going to be working for after graduation (NI) is doing all the DAQ and stuff for this. This makes me +1 cool. However, if this causes the end of the world this gives me a -2 cool. darm.
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Polaris said:
Yeah, I almost forgot. Company where I work developed and made state of the art pixel detectors for CERN's project ATLAS- part of Large Hadron Collider.

Brian Cox have brand new video at TED Talks about LHC.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_6uKZWnJLCM

Thanks theotherguy for your great post. +100 public understanting of science points for you.
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So we will have you two to blame for the death of the known universe? Good to know who the enemies are.


mchammer75040 said:
Was I the only one who read "I just got a hard on" in the thread title?
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Hey you got the joke! \o/
 
CONGRATULATIONS YOU ALL GOT THE JOKE

*facepalms*
 
This is some crazy interesting stuff. Cant wait to see it turned on.
 
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