Large Hadron Collider

[muchado]

What do you guys think of this??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider



Search google for more info... Everyone at work has been talking about this and it sounds pretty nuts.

 

[BamaTJ]

I heard that people think it is going to create a black hole and swalow the universe. People are nuts. I heard it was a simulator of the big bang theory on a very smal scale. It will take a year until it is up to full strength.

 

[InDaShop]

Read up on it a few months back. No idea, but leave it to the french to **** up the world.

 

[Welderd]

sounds pretty fawked up to me

watch a show about it on the history channel last night

Few quotes I remember

Interviewer: If a beam escaped would it just vaporize you?
Scientist type guy: No you'd just die (WTF so that's better?)

Interviewer: What do you hope to learn from this?
Scientist type guy: Alot of things really, blah blah blah stuff about science stuff. But in reality we don't know what will happen we could learn things we never thought about.

Really sounded to me like these MF'ers don't have the slightest clue WTF is gonna happen but have the attitude of "it'll be cool as ****!"
it better be for the 10billion they spent!

But whoever funded that I'd sure as fawk want to know what the fawk was gonna happen

 

[blacksheep10]

that took a while to read. thanks
I'm intrigued
I remember stephen hawking making that bet like 10 years ago, they did a joke on weekend update about it. laughing1

 

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[under_psi]

those are some pics of it from that boston globe from a FEW MONTHS ago on PBB....the site kept locking up my computer, so i saved them....

that thing is overly impressive....

 

[Juan_Hong_Loe]

What happens if nothing happens? That would be tits! pepper.gif

 

[Cole]

So what the hell is it, and what is it supposed to do? I don't feel like reading that crap so someone give me cliff notes.

 

[wngrog]

So what the hell is it, and what is it supposed to do? I don't feel like reading that crap so someone give me cliff notes.

It is a collider. Smashes Neutrons. Goes against Einsteins theories. They smashed. We did not die.

Cool.

 

[vanguard]

It takes 30 seconds to get good but this nerd rap covers the project pretty well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

 

[Welderd]

It is a collider. Smashes Neutrons. Goes against Einsteins theories. They smashed. We did not die.

Cool.

they have not smashed yet

they won't for a while yet

they won't know if we'll die until we die - even if it's not immediate it could happen 2-300 years later from mini blackholes that no one will know were created


here's the guy that's spearheading the fight against it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL2ghqv5mCg&feature=related
the first 2 parts are pretty informative

 

[BamaTJ]

I believe it will be 1 year before it reaches full power and they can test the theory. I think it is just protrons now and they are adding neutrons in a month or so. I could be wrong, I am not good at science

 

[InDaShop]

OH NO IT BROKE!!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/18/hadron.collider.transformer.breaks.ap/index.html

Collider's transformer breaks, halts experiment

Story Highlights
Transformer that cools world's largest particle collider malfunctions
Break forces physicists to stop using atom smasher one day after launching
Faulty transformer replaced, ring cooled back down in 17-mile tunnel
Large Hadron Collider designed to collide protons to reveal more about universe


GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- A 30-ton transformer that cools the world's largest particle collider malfunctioned, forcing physicists to stop using the atom smasher just a day after launching it to great fanfare, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Thursday.

The faulty transformer has been replaced and the ring in the 17-mile circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border has been cooled back down to near absolute zero -- or minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit -- the most efficient operating temperature, said a statement by CERN, as the organization is known.

When the transformer malfunctioned, operating temperatures rose from below 2 Kelvin to 4.5 Kelvin -- extraordinarily cold by most standards, but warmer than the normal operating temperature.

The Large Hadron Collider was launched September 10, when scientists circled a beam of protons in a clockwise direction at the speed of light. That was followed by a counterclockwise beam. Check out the collider complex's six detectors »

"Several hundred orbits" were made, said the statement.

On the evening of September 11, scientists were able to control the counterclockwise beam with equipment that keeps the protons bunched tightly and ready for collisions before the transformer failed and the system was shut down, the statement said.

Now that the transformer has been replaced and the equipment rechilled, a similar attempt is expected shortly to tighten the clockwise beam and prepare experiments in coming weeks, it said.

The Large Hadron Collider is designed to collide protons in the beams so that they shatter and reveal more about the makeup of matter and the universe.

 

[J.A.B]

That's some wild stuff - almost down right scary laughing1