Doomsday Collider of Doom

Harlowe · Post by **Harlowe** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:58 pm

Cool and yet, a weeee bit scary

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/30/doom ... index.html

Post by **Ddrak** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:50 pm

It's just going to spew Higgs Bosons everywhere, which will then have to be hunted down and put back where they came from!

Dd

Harlowe · Post by **Harlowe** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:25 pm

http://xkcd.com/401/

The BBC ran this, but at that time Nov 2007 was the "turn on" date.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJ6PMfnz2E

Freecare Spiritwise · Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:51 pm

My intolerant religious viewpoint is that if God wanted us to smash atoms, he would've given us all tiny hammers.

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:15 pm

Harlowe wrote:http://xkcd.com/401/

That site is great Harlowe. This one made me crack up:
http://xkcd.com/276/

Rsak · Post by **Rsak** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:22 pm

Really a shame the super collider in Texas was never completed or turned on.

Post by **Ddrak** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:49 pm

Rsak wrote:Really a shame the super collider in Texas was never completed or turned on.

I hear the buildings make great warehouses for toilet tissue though.

Dd

Arathena · Post by **Arathena** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:55 am

They can only manage to come up with $15 mil a year for Fermilab; they're passing out the pink slips this year. The SCSC would have wound up costing about $30B at the rate the price was inflating and probably about a million bucks a day to operate. Congress has been hack-slashing research across the board for a while now. Particle physicists looking for private funding is not a pretty sight.

I'm not sure if I hope they find the Higgs Boson or not. I think the truth is probably a lot more elegant than the Standard Model.

Select · Post by **Select** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:50 pm

Here we go!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 682260.ece
Same old story still, but now we can sit back and watch the world not end.
I can't even wrap my head around how the hell you collide atoms. I'd knock on wood and call it a day.

Post by **Ddrak** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:59 pm

Select wrote:I can't even wrap my head around how the hell you collide atoms. I'd knock on wood and call it a day.

You collide protons (they aren't doing anything with atoms) the same way you collide billiard balls - slam them into each other.

Also note they aren't actually doing anything real there in the way of experiments for at least another few weeks. Right now they're just running 1 beam around the loop. The actual experiment involves 2 beams running in opposite directions.

Dd

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:06 pm

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

Njorls · Post by **Njorls** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:11 pm

Live LHC Webcam

Select · Post by **Select** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:36 pm

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroy ... ldyet.com/
(Check the page source)

Sinaiel · Post by **Sinaiel** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:32 pm

LHC out of comission. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080920/ap_ ... e_collider

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