Large Hadron Collider
08-09-2008 | 11:28 PM
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/t...n_collider.html ...56k warning!
New hyper-powerful supercollider being finished off this month in france/switzerland!
New hyper-powerful supercollider being finished off this month in france/switzerland!
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The energy of protons is expected to reach values that existed during the Big Bang. The behavior of particles at ultrahigh velocities and phenomena appearing in place of collision can hardly be predicted. While this fact seems to be very inspiring for scientists, it doesn't produce much excitement among other people. Several lawsuits have been filed against CERN, arguing that the research can produce potentially dangerous substances that could put the Earth at risk. In one of the lawsuits filed by a critic of the collider's safety measures, the LHC was labeled "a Doomsday machine". The suit claimed that high energy collisions may result in birth of miniature black holes which will swallow the whole planet, and sought to delay the launch of the accelerator.
08-10-2008 | 12:28 AM
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^^ Haha, It does bring Moonraker to mind.
Very cool stuff there, can't wait to see what they accomplish with it once it's up and running. Definitely one of the most complex machines on this planet.
Very cool stuff there, can't wait to see what they accomplish with it once it's up and running. Definitely one of the most complex machines on this planet.
08-10-2008 | 07:25 AM
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Scientists have been waiting for this for so long, I can't wait to see the news about what they discover.
It's funny to see all that high-tech superconductors and computers and stuff, and a guy using a CRT monitor
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_gra...08_01/lhc25.jpg
Maybe we can all chip in and get them a LCD lol
It's funny to see all that high-tech superconductors and computers and stuff, and a guy using a CRT monitor
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_gra...08_01/lhc25.jpg
Maybe we can all chip in and get them a LCD lol
08-10-2008 | 01:36 PM
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For those that don't believe in the Big Bang theory, it's not quite so worrisome. lmao.gif
There were people who thought the first nuclear bomb test would burn off the planet's atmosphere.
Remember we're talking about smashing a couple of atoms together at a time, not a planet's or a star's worth of mass. Even if you make that superdense, it's not likely to suck the planet down the drain. That's why the pointy-headed scientists doing this stuff aren't afraid they're going to kill us all. fing02.gif
There were people who thought the first nuclear bomb test would burn off the planet's atmosphere.
Remember we're talking about smashing a couple of atoms together at a time, not a planet's or a star's worth of mass. Even if you make that superdense, it's not likely to suck the planet down the drain. That's why the pointy-headed scientists doing this stuff aren't afraid they're going to kill us all. fing02.gif
08-10-2008 | 02:23 PM
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^ it's not that simple. The problem is that the current theory allows the possibility of a black hole forming (regardless of the amount of mass). So it's not an unfounded claim.
In fact, the argument against this is empirical/practical rather than theoretic: it's that some particles that come to us from outer space ('cosmic rays') sometimes have larger velocities (energies) that what particles in this collider will have - thus if such a collision could result in a black hole, it would have happened by now.
In fact, the argument against this is empirical/practical rather than theoretic: it's that some particles that come to us from outer space ('cosmic rays') sometimes have larger velocities (energies) that what particles in this collider will have - thus if such a collision could result in a black hole, it would have happened by now.
08-10-2008 | 10:19 PM
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haha, this thing can divide by 0.
the bunches of proton beams will be accelerated to 0.999991 times the speed of light, in other words they will travel the 26km circle approx 11,000x in one second. I don't even want to bust out the calc to figure out what that is in quarter mile time and 0-60.
the bunches of proton beams will be accelerated to 0.999991 times the speed of light, in other words they will travel the 26km circle approx 11,000x in one second. I don't even want to bust out the calc to figure out what that is in quarter mile time and 0-60.