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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:04 am    Post subject: LHC Reply with quote

Boston Globe has some very nice pictures of the almost-finished Large Hadron Collider.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

Go science.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, damn.

That is freaking huge, and amazing. Go humanity.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is some freakin alpha-level hotness.

We're living in the future, man. That's some crazy shit.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Supposedly they're starting up soon. They're cooling it down to 1.9 K or something, which takes time since it's huge.

I know a lot of physics professors at MIT who are going to be quite eager to see how this beast turns out. Pretty much every single one of them tried to talk about this guy:

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

in class.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



Hot.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Scientists hope the Large Hadron Collider will help understand how the universe was formed. Skeptics fear it will lead to the Earth's demise


http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/08/lhc.collider/index.html

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Fears have emerged that the collider could produce black holes that could suck up anything around them -- including the whole Earth. Such fears prompted legal actions in the U.S. and Europe to halt the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, alleging safety concerns regarding black holes and other phenomena that could theoretically emerge.

Although physicists acknowledge that the collider could, in theory, create small black holes, they say they do not pose any risk. A study released Friday by CERN scientists explains that any black hole created would be tiny, and would not have enough energy to stick around very long before dissolving


We're all going to die.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Game over, man.

Game over.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



CERN = Black Mesa?

We're done for.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The link doesn't work unless you go directly to the picture, but yes, that is definitely problematic...

Also, the thing is on and we're not all dead yet as far as I can tell.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mchicken wrote:
Also, the thing is on and we're not all dead yet as far as I can tell.


And I quote, "You are dead, and this... is...Hell...."
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is just too crazy not to share.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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"This particle has been nicknamed by the scientists...freemasons...same thing..."


So good.

Yeah I watched the whole thing. The man is on to something.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This guy has to be lying, despite the tremendous plausibility of everything he has to say. We have another 4 years before the world ends.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mchicken wrote:
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/


So last year.
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