September 9, 2008 at 3:21 pm
..., then we are still alive!
Save the date: 10 September 2008, 07:30 GMT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XotvwgnaY
I just hope that they know what they are doing 😉
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Chris Büttner
September 9, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Glad I'm on this side of the pond 🙂
September 10, 2008 at 4:11 am
Still here, live and kicking 😀
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September 10, 2008 at 4:27 am
Christian Buettner (9/9/2008)
..., then we are still alive!Save the date: 10 September 2008, 07:30 GMT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XotvwgnaY
I just hope that they know what they are doing 😉
They know what they're doing Chris, but they don't know what the consequences will be!
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September 11, 2008 at 1:31 am
Chris Morris (9/10/2008)
They know what they're doing Chris, but they don't know what the consequences will be!
Thats true.
By the way: http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2131/freemanae8.jpg 😀
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Chris Büttner
September 11, 2008 at 8:06 am
AHA! I was wondering why Google had a collider ring graphic around their logo yesterday. @=)
September 11, 2008 at 8:13 am
To my understanding, they didn't actually perform any collisions yesterday, they just fired some particles around in a circle to make sure it was working.
Plus, if it goes wrong in one way (miniature black holes that escape), you might not know about it till weeks, months or even years later, as they slowly eat the Earth's mass. Not like when they set of the first atomic bomb and it burned up the Earth's atmosphere and killed everything on the planet.
(What? You didn't know about that? Maybe you were too young to remember the day that all life on Earth was destroyed. Or maybe you slept through it. Probably the same reason you don't remember dynomite destroying the world.)
Of course, what will actually happen will be significantly less theatrical and significantly more exciting, but only to people who get excited about scientific advancements. (Like me! 🙂 )
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September 11, 2008 at 8:28 am
GSquared (9/11/2008)
To my understanding, they didn't actually perform any collisions yesterday, they just fired some particles around in a circle to make sure it was working.
They did some collisions, but not at full power. There's a pic on the newscientist website
Of course, what will actually happen will be significantly less theatrical and significantly more exciting, but only to people who get excited about scientific advancements. (Like me! 🙂 )
"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. Always a boom tomorrow"
I'm excited about it. I want to see the pretty pictures. 😛
Any bets on what they uncover first? Higgs boson? Proof of super symmetry? Evaporating black hole?
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September 11, 2008 at 9:06 am
My bet is a lot of what will come out of this is how to collect, manage, store, and anlalyze a tremendous amount of data.
September 11, 2008 at 10:57 am
OOH! Yes!
I can see it now.
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September 11, 2008 at 11:08 am
I just wonder:
- how many figures behind the decimal point is their working unit :w00t:
- do they have ctrl+alt+del :hehe:
- do they run on alpha software or RC-1 😀
- finally we will know what is _IN_ nothing
(And I've got a pile of that ) 😛
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September 12, 2008 at 5:07 am
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
just in case you need to check .. after all it might have ended in one place and not another !
September 12, 2008 at 7:04 am
Perhaps the most important thing for people to realize is that the energy level of the collisions that will take place in the LHC is actually less than the energy level associated with most of the cosmic rays that have been impacting Earth and it's atmosphere since day 1 of Earth's existence. Seeing as how that's been going on for the last 4.5 BILLION years or so, I'd say the likelihood of a lesser energy level somehow producing some catastrophic result is pretty much nil.
Especially when you consider the rather long livelihood of most astronomical objects. They all get a roughly equal dose of cosmic rays, and they've all been around for billions of years. If there was any reasonable likelihood of disaster from a lesser energy level collision, the universe would be a LOT less populous than it is, and chances are, we wouldn't even be here to notice.
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September 12, 2008 at 7:42 am
smunson (9/12/2008)
Never miss an opportunity to get a good education - especially in the science arena, as it's one of the few disciplines that can help people avoid irrational fear.
AHEM. Excuse me, Steve, but I'm a DBA. I LIKE my irrational fears, thank you very much.
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September 12, 2008 at 7:46 am
at the end of the day its just yet another contender (albeit not a very strong one) to cause the end of the world ..
there should be a top five list of the current most likely/unlikely threats to civilisation as know it
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