Its being turned on this SATURDAY!!! Large Hadron Collider goes ON

Steyr

The Machine!

Hi Gang,

Nice knowing you all. :eek:


The machine has been called the largest scientific experiment in history and it straddles the French and Swiss border buried at a depth of 330 feet underground.

It cost $5.8 billion to set up and with it scientists will hunt for signs of invisible "dark matter" and "dark energy"

The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some strange discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on this Saturday.

However the safety of the powerful collider has been debated for years.

Some critics fear that the Large Hadron Collider may actually exceed physicists' wildest calculations by creating a black hole that could swallow Earth, or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead mass, or release theoretical killer particles known as strangelets.

Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, say this is ridiculous.

Project leader Lyn Evans said: "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on."

"There is a huge army of scientists who know what they are talking about and are sleeping quite soundly as far as concerns the LHC."

And David Francis, a physicist on the collider's huge ATLAS particle detector said: "If I thought that this was going to happen, I would be well away from here."

Comforting words indeed.

The Collider
The collider basically consists of a ring of supercooled magnets 17 miles in circumference attached to huge barrel-shaped detectors.

When it is at full power, two beams of protons will race around the huge ring 11,000 times a second in opposite directions. They will travel in two tubes and speed through a vacuum that is colder and emptier than outer space.

Large detectors and cameras will collect data as the protons collide and 15 petabytes of data will be collected each year equivalent to a pile of CDs 12miles tall

No danger
Martin Rees, a physicist, has estimated the chance of an accelerator producing a global catastrophe at one in 50 million which is about the same odds as winning some lotteries.

A CERN team has also issued a report concluding that there is "no conceivable danger" of a cataclysmic event.

However, skeptics theorize that micro black holes produced by the collider might be trapped inside the earth's gravitational field and eventually threaten the planet.

Either way we find out this Saturday.

Kold

Daycent. Hopefully we all cease to exist.

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http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=267

Conor108

Should have built it in Cork so:D

thelordofcheese

Good, i have a deadline next week so if the world ends i don't have to worry about it.

Come on Black Mesa incident for real, everyone stock up on crowbars!

Seachmall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3iryBLZCOQ

:cool:

Terry

About time.

redshoulder

If a micro black hole were produced they would only last for a fraction of a second.

Trev M

Seachmall - that was quality

Terry

redshoulder wrote: »

If a micro black hole were produced they would only last for a friction of a second.

Some typos are funny.

phantom_lord

Terry wrote: »

About time.

yup
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Drift

Steyr - do you know if the world is going to be annihilated in the morning or the afternoon on Saturday? I bought tickets to go see Galway vs. Kerry in the afternoon but if the world is going to end circa 4pm Saturday I'm f*cked if I'm going to spend my last hours on earth sitting in traffic on the N6!!

Also seeing as we're on the topic and ladies out there who want to make sure they feel like a real woman before they die would need to get in contact quick as I only have until Saturday to do it you all.

On the up side a black hole would nicely sort out the global warming problem!

AARRRGH

I still don't understand how a bunch of scientist nerds managed to talk loads of countries into giving them billions of euros to build something which could destroy the earth.

Quality.

Terry

phantom_lord wrote: »

yup
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Awesome.

Terry

AARRRGH wrote: »

I still don't understand how a bunch of scientist nerds managed to talk loads of countries into giving them billions of euros to build something which could destroy the earth.

Quality.

Ahh, they said the same about the atom bomb and we're all here now, minus a few hundred thousand Japanese and what would have been their descendants.

Kold

AARRRGH wrote: »

I still don't understand how a bunch of scientist nerds managed to talk loads of countries into giving them billions of euros to build something which could destroy the earth.

Quality.

It's win-win.

-annex-

Unfortunately for all you black hole fetishists out there, it's only an injection test. The end of the world doesn't come until October/November.

dfx-

I'll be on the watch out for Zombies. This is exactly the cunning decoy for Z-day.

keane2097

dfx- wrote: »

I'll be on the watch out for Zombies. This is exactly the cunning decoy for Z-day.

Agreed.

biko

I don't think we'll be missed much

holylucifer

Conor108 wrote: »

Should have built it in Cork so:D

:-) cork,as for blackhole at cork hahah.

Wreck

-annex- wrote: »

Unfortunately for all you black hole fetishists out there, it's only an injection test. The end of the world doesn't come until October/November.

I don't think I've ever been so disappointed a post. (Well, except maybe when I found out Tar's true gender.) Is there any chance that if this injection test goes wrong the world may still end on Saturday? Cos I'm going to very drunk on Friday night and I'll probably sleep a lot better if I know I won't be waking up with a terrible hangover.

Fad

pardon my ignorance but will it take more than a day for the particles to collide or will they be traveling at massive speed?

SimpleSam06

It may doom us all, but it really is a beautiful machine...

Hansel

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

It may doom us all, but it really is a beautiful machine...

some of the comments on there are quality.

nyarlothothep

The Hadron Collider restores my faith in humanity, such a triumph of pure thought

Fratton Fred

Drift wrote: »

Also seeing as we're on the topic and ladies out there who want to make sure they feel like a real woman before they die would need to get in contact quick as I only have until Saturday to do it you all.
!

Yeah, I need some shirts ironed as well:D

Wreck

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

It may doom us all, but it really is a beautiful machine...

Wow, it looks amazing. The scale of it really drives home how much money,effort, and intelligence has gone into this, with the simple goal of increasing our understanding of the world. Makes me feel kind of warm and fuzzy inside. I really wish I knew more about physics though.

Hansel wrote: »

some of the comments on there are quality.

The half life ones are good, but this

Zippy wrote:

Well, if this does kill us all, it will be a shame we won't have this blog/comments section to learn why America was to blame...

and

Don_Durito wrote:

The end of the world is pretty

are pure class.

tech77

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

It may doom us all, but it really is a beautiful machine...

Amazing photos.
Some feat of engineering.

Kold

Will we be able to divide by zero after this?

Terry

Kold wrote: »

Will we be able to divide by zero after this?

1/0=1

Fratton Fred

this could be the breakthrough that takes the hman race to the next "Level".

the Vulcans may be about to make first contact.:cool:

Conor108

Hansel wrote: »

some of the comments on there are quality.

Best one is

74.

more like large HARDON collider amirite?
Posted by David August 1, 08 05:04 PM

R0ot

"Unforeseen Consequences" anyone? [/half life] :pac:

AlmightyCushion

Guess I'm not working on Sunday afterall. AlmightyCushion; 1. Boss: 0

Terry

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Guess I'm not working on Sunday afterall. AlmightyCushion; 1. Boss: 0

Screw that.
If it all goes down it'll be Terry: 1. The state Vs Terry: 0 because Monday won't happen.

Bring on the apocalypse.

skyhighflyer

Hope it doesn't run Windows Vista

It's only there to play Crysis on max settings

/nerd hat off

mukki

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/lhc_08_01/lhc4.jpg

look at the swinging hips on him/her (hopefully her)

[bee gees]

oh
oh
oh
oh
staying allllllllllliiiiiveeeeeeee

[/bee gees]

nyarlothothep

Terry wrote: »

Screw that.
If it all goes down it'll be Terry: 1. The state Vs Terry: 0 because Monday won't happen.

Bring on the apocalypse.

Unless the state turns into a superstate

Aodan83

Fratton Fred wrote: »

this could be the breakthrough that takes the hman race to the next "Level".

the Vulcans may be about to make first contact.:cool:

next level!!! but i havent found all the bonuses yet. I NEED MORE TIME!!

Captain Chaos

The switch on date is September 10th, we still have a month of existence to live, enjoy.

Pride Fighter

Kold wrote: »

Will we be able to divide by zero after this?

Chuck Norris already can.

Steoob

i for one cannot wait to be spaghettified

MagicMarker

Those pics are pretty feckin savage!! I hope it wasn't built by the same people who make christmas tree lights, one wire goes and they're ****ed.

Seachmall

Does anyone have link because I can't find anything about it being turned on today. I've been googling and looks like it was first turned on in 2006 but the first 'beam' is set to go Sep. 10 this year

*runs to the Zombie Apocalypse Forum*

keane2097

mukki wrote: »

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/lhc_08_01/lhc4.jpg

look at the swinging hips on him/her (hopefully her)

[bee gees]

oh
oh
oh
oh
staying allllllllllliiiiiveeeeeeee

[/bee gees]

This needs waaaay more love imo.

Turnip2000

Sanka... you dead?

Ya mon.

??

Karoma

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/08/cern-rap-video-about-the-large-hadron-collider-creates-a-black-h/

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

Cunny-Funt

someone already posted that vid in this thread man....

Sully

Karoma wrote: »

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/08/cern-rap-video-about-the-large-hadron-collider-creates-a-black-h/

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

Fail.