Large Hadron Collider will not turn world to goo, promise scientists

[south]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4682260.ece

 

[draggar]

Oh god oh god we're all gonna die?

(Quote anyone?).

It'll be interesting to see what happens - I think it's going to not work.

Edit: I guess I was wrong. It worked.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc.collider/index.html

 

[south]

Wow.. 17 miles of tunnel beneath France & Switzerland.

Have the French surrendered to the Aliens yet?

 

[draggar]

We can't let it swallow up France, though, where would we get our corssanwiches? :lol::smilewinkgrin:

 

[Sonny Banks]

Nice experiment

 

[RatherGood]

Oh god oh god we're all gonna die?

(Quote anyone?).

It'll be interesting to see what happens - I think it's going to not work.

Edit: I guess I was wrong. It worked.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc.collider/index.html

The real experiment isn't slated until a few months from now.

 

[HarveyJ]

Sorry, but the sheer ignorance of people, internet wide, regarding high energy physics is really starting to piss me off.

MACHINES LIKE THIS EXIST ALL OVER THE WORLD ALREADY!!!
THOUSANDS OF THESE EXPERIMENTS HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED SINCE THE 80S!!!

The only difference is that the LHC is bigger than previous ones, and cost a hell of a lot more because it had to be built below ground.
Re: Black holes - Earth won't be sucked into a singularity because they won't be able to generate something sizeable enough before it sucks itself up. Yes, they can do that, it's actually been observed according to telescope data.
Re: Strange matter - It's only a theory at this point in time to make the maths work out in M-theory. Strange matter's existence is sort of disproven by the very fact that the universe hasn't been gobbled up into strangelettes yet.
Re: what's the point? - Oh, gee, I don't know... What was the point of testing out working nuclear fission or scraping mouldy bread for penicillin? The reason is that maybe we'll be able to fogure out how to get things like hot-fusion working, and how to harness gravitons and tachyons, if they actually exist like the maths seem to imply they do.

 

[draggar]

If people are that scared someone has set up a website to let them know if it's destroyed the earth yet.

They keep it current but also offer a full refund if they are wrong.
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

 

[Justin Hulsey]

haha funny site.

 

[exponent]

Even if it does turn the world to goo or gobble it up with a black hole, it only happens one-dimensionally. If string theory holds true, there are an infinite number of permutated parallel universes, so in theory the following is true:

I hasn't happened, but will.
It has already happened.
It will not happen.
It is currently happening.

etc.

Get the picture? Some scientists are trying to link it to the human brain (deja vu) but its anyones best guess. Personally, any micro-atomic black holes would evaporate in billionths of a second through the emission of Hawking Radiation.

 

[katherine]

The black hole story looks like buzz marketing to me :smilewinkgrin:

 

[DomainMagnate]

I think it's great that they managed to get this kind of funding and attention for a science project. You might say it's $8 bn for just one experiment, but it could help reveal how the universe was created and provide answers to many open questions in physics. As well as give some insight into some extremely efficient ways of generating energy.

btw a recent joke: scientists have a tradition, every 14 billion years they all gather together and build a Large Hadron Collider

 

[south]

The black hole story looks like buzz marketing to me :smilewinkgrin:

Nothing wrong with a little buzz every now & then

 

[HarveyJ]

It's not just one experiment. It's one device, and it will be used for running hundreds of experiments. Yes, they're all based on the same thing, but the data will be used by different research teams for different purposes.
Possible outcomes of this include learning about Gravitons (dunno about you, but the idea of a gravity engine sounds good to me), learning more about tachyons and quantum-pairings (wouldn't faster than light info transmission be useful?), and perhaps even finding out a little bit more about nano-tech by being able to create objects atom by atom.
There's a lot of practical science that can potentially come out of this if people look beyond the immediate.

Anyway, to prove it's perfectly safe, people should just sit and watch how amazingly dull the live feed is.
Here: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

 

[thevirtual]

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html[/URL]

lol

 

[south]

Anyway, to prove it's perfectly safe, people should just sit and watch how amazingly dull the live feed is.
Here: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Excellent!
:cheers:

 

[replic8te]

Surprised no one mentioned the stargate orbitting Mars in the same breath

 

[south]

Surprised no one mentioned the stargate orbitting Mars in the same breath

Has the mothership arrived for the Scientologists too?

 

[south]

Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future

A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49305387,00.htm

Of course this begs the question.. If the world is about to be destroyed, how did his ancestors survive?

Edit: Just realized this was posted April 1st

 

[Gerry]

Edit: Just realized this was posted April 1st

You can't believe anything the Brits say.

After all, they lost the colonies after swearing Cornwallis would not lose and two centuries later they blindly followed us into Iraq.

I just don't trust the UK. Devious, they are. Not to be trusted.