So in case the LHC does kill us all tomorrow...
 

Say some things here. Thread will be re-created before 21st October, when the first high energy collisions take place.

I'd miss you crazy muthafuckers if this happened.

what?
please clear me up :)

see you in hell.

thats not clearing up. at least not for me

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of 7 TeV protons. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

The LHC is the world's largest and the highest-energy particle accelerator.[ It is funded and built in collaboration with over eight thousand physicists from over eighty-five countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
The collider is currently undergoing commissioning while being cooled down to its final operating temperature of approximately 1.9 K (−271.25 °C). Initial particle beam injections were successfully carried out on 8-11 August 2008, the first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for 10 September 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on 21 October 2008 .
When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.
Although a few individuals have questioned the safety of the planned experiments in the media and through the courts, the consensus in the scientific community is that there is no basis for any conceivable threat from the LHC particle collisions.

The Large Hadron Collider has been featured in a number of novels, including Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer, Black Hole, by Angelo Paratico, and Decipher by Stel Pavlou, which described it in some detail. One of the most visible examples is Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, which involves dangerous antimatter created at the LHC used as a weapon against the Vatican. CERN published a "Fact or Fiction?" page discussing the accuracy of the book's portrayal of the LHC, CERN, and particle physics in general. The movie version of the book had footage filmed on-site at one of the experiments at the LHC; the director, Ron Howard, also met with CERN experts in an effort to make the science in the story more accurate. BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting "Big Bang Day" on 10 September 2008 to coincide with LHC being switched on. Included in this event will be a radio episode of the TV series Torchwood, with a plot surrounding the LHC, entitled Lost Souls. Katherine McAlpine, aka "alpinekat", a science writer working at CERN, wrote the lyrics for a personal rap video about the LHC called the "The Large Hadron Rap". The song was added to YouTube on July 28, 2008, and, as of September 6th, it had been viewed more than a million time




fuck me!!!!!!!
read the rest of the blurb here

...well, if it does kill us all, I'll miss the ATP festival in December. Crap!

ah yes. under hamburg here is such a thing too. was the biggest some time ago I think

Hooray for the possibility of creating black holes.

teeny tiny smaller than a proton black holes, which exist for less than a millisecond,a nd instantly "evaporate" will do NO harm to anything

grow up people! READ SCIENCE!!!!

I can tell you what happened, switzerland is a direct neighbour, hahaha

that is, assuming Hawking is/was right.

mayhaps they require critical mass before they emit Hawking radiation and "evaporate".

:)

*crosses diodes*

Just read that the evaporation of black holes is a THEORY ( by Hawking ).

I would much rather assume a fucking genius like hawking is right than a bunch of no-science-reading freakouts!

despite the quote, I'm going to assume that you aren't talking to me. :)

please note: even fucking geniuses are wrong sometimes.

you know the "law" of gravitation by newton is actually a Theory?

You know relativity is a "theory?"

sxcientists know that nothing can ever be fully 100% understood or proven, because of the near infinite nature of our universe. the word "law" in science means a theory that has been tested and tested and tested and nothing ahs ever show it to eb wrong. the instant something does a theory/law is thrown out.

ablak hole that tine, and the universe is populated by maybe TRILLIONS of them, can fly right through a solid object like the earyh without ever interactig wityh even one bit of matter.

neutrinos do the sam ething. each second you are bombarded by millions of neutrinos travelling at lioght speed shooting out of our uper atmosphere andthe sun, and they do nothiong/

chills! it's just science!

who said they were not?

I said I will take a genius' educated and extremely well informed guess ove rthe hye of thousands of dolts talking mad smack about shit they know nothing about.

easy tiger, all I'm saying is I'd never put all the money on "currently predicted by theory".

beyond that, there's really no worry.

this world has 4 more years.

:)

lets see, is tomorrow the day where the blackholes will be procuced maybe? or is that in october?

Hey, how about this: whatever happens happens.

they fire it up on the 10th.

Large Hard-on Collider panic pops up everytime they warm it up though.

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and as Rob is starting to prove, it's not just the kooks that get c-c-c-razy over it.

lulz.