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08/02/2008 10:57:38 AM · #1 |
This story, coming from Boston.com, has some cool images of the Large Hadron Collider.
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08/02/2008 12:23:44 PM · #2 |
thanks for the link david! that thing has been anticipated greatly for quite a while now. i've been intrigued with it ever since i read, reread and still don't understand Brian Greene's "Fabric of the Cosmos" - the most awe-inspiring book ever, imo.
supposedly it may produce miniature black holes as a product of it's high energy collisions. That would be something! |
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08/02/2008 12:28:21 PM · #3 |
| Oh, to be given access to that place with a wide angle lens. |
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08/02/2008 12:29:32 PM · #4 |
| Very cool pictures. I can't remenber what book I read that used CERN and the LHC in the story. It must have been one of the Dan Brown books. Cool link thanks for posting it. |
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08/02/2008 12:48:51 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by DarkRider:
Very cool pictures. I can't remenber what book I read that used CERN and the LHC in the story. It must have been one of the Dan Brown books. Cool link thanks for posting it. |
It was Angels and Demons.
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08/02/2008 01:05:23 PM · #6 |
| I have trouble with a 500 piece puzzle, I can not imagine what kind of time and effort went into designing and putting that thing together. Very cool images! |
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08/02/2008 04:35:48 PM · #7 |
Enjoy it whilst you can, when it creates an uncontrollable black-hole that finds itself some matter to feed upon the earth will be sucked into it in roughly, what, a millionth of a second.
Seriously, some scientists don't want it switched on..
In the event it doesn't kill us but just rips a hole into another dimension, then I already have my crowbar handy for the outpouring of inter-dimensional creatures. right Half-Life fans?
Message edited by author 2008-08-02 16:44:04. |
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08/02/2008 04:47:32 PM · #8 |
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08/02/2008 07:12:42 PM · #9 |
The website was down for awhile, but it's back: LHC Countdown (currently 5 days, 6 hours 47 minutes)
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08/19/2008 09:28:42 AM · #10 |
How about some CERN rap?
//www.vimeo.com/1431471
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08/19/2008 09:45:37 AM · #11 |
| Ummm... me feel pratti stoopit wen me look at da fancee machines builded by da smart peeple. Grunt |
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08/19/2008 09:56:09 AM · #12 |
| A parent's worst nightmare: something like that as this year's must-have toy... in a very large box with "Some assembly required" stenciled on the outside. :-O |
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08/19/2008 10:24:44 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
A parent's worst nightmare: something like that as this year's must-have toy... in a very large box with "Some assembly required" stenciled on the outside. :-O |
Your comment wasn't all that funny until I looked at the pictures. yeesh. |
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08/19/2008 12:02:22 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Simms:
Enjoy it whilst you can, when it creates an uncontrollable black-hole that finds itself some matter to feed upon the earth will be sucked into it in roughly, what, a millionth of a second.
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Would take longer than a millionth of a second. I'm not too worried about black holes. It would take 1000 tones of iron crushed into a thimble to create a very tiny black hole. I don't think that landscape project in Europe will be able to achieve that.
But.... were they to succeed the resulting object would be so heavy that nothing could contain it. It would sink to the center of the earth.... but keep on going until it reached the far side of the earth the exact distance from the core as the starting point. It would "orbit" inside the earth like this for millions of years until it gobbled it up! |
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08/19/2008 12:06:16 PM · #15 |
| I thought I read somewhere that what this thing is going to do happens every day in our upper atmosphere. The only difference is that we are going to do it in a controlled environment for recording and study. |
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08/19/2008 12:08:00 PM · #16 |
I liked this quote:
"There is a chance that firebreathing dragons will be produced by the LHC. But the probability of this event is so small, one can show that it will not happen in the lifetime of the universe."
Yeah, but somebody does win the lottery every now and again.
The Bush cronies showed "Mission Accomplished" too.
Rats. Now I've got to sharpen me broadswoard. My horse hates wearing his armor too. Oh, well. On the bright side, I've got a shot for the Horses challenge. |
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08/19/2008 12:27:46 PM · #17 |
I think it's far more likely we'll see this headline...
"Vandals break into LHC, steal 270,000 miles of copper wiring"
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08/19/2008 12:40:39 PM · #18 |
I think the facts showed that the "Mission Accomplished" sign was put up by the "Ship's" crew on their own.
Originally posted by fir3bird:
I liked this quote:
"There is a chance that firebreathing dragons will be produced by the LHC. But the probability of this event is so small, one can show that it will not happen in the lifetime of the universe."
Yeah, but somebody does win the lottery every now and again.
The Bush cronies showed "Mission Accomplished" too.
Rats. Now I've got to sharpen me broadswoard. My horse hates wearing his armor too. Oh, well. On the bright side, I've got a shot for the Horses challenge. |
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08/19/2008 01:06:12 PM · #19 |
That is Ultra-Coolio. It reminds me of some of the Quake III maps I used to spend hours killing people in.
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08/19/2008 01:30:47 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
That is Ultra-Coolio. |
Yep, -271.25 °C to be exact. ;-)
Message edited by author 2008-08-19 13:31:03. |
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08/19/2008 01:49:54 PM · #21 |
why does that thing remind me of the movie 'Time Cop'?
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