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

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    #62
    Carrigart Exile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Carrigart Exile


    Steyr wrote: »
    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.


    I will laugh myself silly if the evidence from the collider is 'there had to be a creator':D


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    #63
    entropi
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Ah the event has come and gone, we wait until Sept now to see what happens on the first proper test using the whole thing and more power :)


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    #64
    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    It may doom us all, but it really is a beautiful machine...

    jesus that site just locked my copmputer, some fecking beautiful pics though once my computer stopped frazzling


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    #65
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Well, I've got my crowbar. I'll be okay.
    http://www.shift-1.net/mutes/gordon2.jpg


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    #66
    LouOB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭LouOB


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

    isnt that how hellboy came out?:P


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    #67
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Can they not wait til Sunday? There's a beers on Saturday! :(


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    #68
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,434 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Hmm, I wonder was it originally Sept 11th? The date obviously being when the world kinda changed anyways.

    I for one welcome our new spaghettified Black Holians.


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    #69
    Hansel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭Hansel


    As fascinating as I find this subject (i really do), am I the only one who keeps reading it as "Large Hardon Collider"?


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    #70
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    *touches self*

    We still here?

    The real test will be in September. I for one will be living like a Roman God between now and then just in case.


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    #71
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I keep reading it as "colinder" which is quite ironic


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    #72
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    How many super heroes do they reckon that this yoke will accindentally produce?


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    #73
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Bambi wrote: »
    How many super heroes do they reckon that this yoke will accindentally produce?

    Will I start making a costume out of Rampant Rabbits?


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    #74
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Just one: Dr. Manhattan. (snigger!)


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    #75
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    HouseHippo wrote: »
    We get it you are smart we are not...

    if i was really smart, i would have been there for 4 years and got a degree as well....


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    #76
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    dam those pictures are amazing.

    kinda complicated no!

    imagine if one wire were to break in the middle of it all.

    repair costs 5billion! rofl.


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    #77
    daveharnett
    Registered Users Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭daveharnett


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    It may doom us all, but it really is a beautiful machine...

    Incredible photos. Possibly the coolest non-commercial thing mankind has done since the moon landing.

    Still...
    Scientist 7: "Now, now, if you follow standard insertion procedure,
    everything will be fine."
    Scientist 6: "I don't know how you can say that. Although I will admit
    that the possibility of a resonance cascade scenario is extremely
    unlikely."


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    #78
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,425 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    daveharnett wrote: »
    Incredible photos. Possibly the coolest non-commercial thing mankind has done since the moon landing.
    Very true, yet hardly a mention of it in the mainstream media, especially TV. The only exception is a program on one of the Discovery channels about the building of it .. absolutely incredible, from every standpoint .. scientific, technical, engineering. There are people there who've been working on that one single project for almost 15 years.

    In Victorian times, projects on this scale (relatively speaking, of course) were constant headline news in the newspapers, and the engineers responsible were national heroes (Brunel, Stephenson, Telford), but these days we all seem to have become a bit jaded and immune to the magnificence of these great engineering wonders. Sad, really.


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    #79
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users Posts: 5,176 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    instead there are features on britney spears and so on. Its all about the "story" and what "sells." Oh dear. The photos are really humbling, they demonstrate what the human mind can achieve and the potential of our species. The people who designed this, whether they are cool or not, I already admire the way their minds work.


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    #80
    thelordofcheese
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    daveharnett wrote: »
    Incredible photos. Possibly the coolest non-commercial thing mankind has done since the moon landing.

    Still...
    Scientist 7: "Now, now, if you follow standard insertion procedure,
    everything will be fine."
    Scientist 6: "I don't know how you can say that. Although I will admit
    that the possibility of a resonance cascade scenario is extremely
    unlikely."


    i think we should prepare for..... unforeseen consequences.


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    #81
    boogle
    Registered Users Posts: 777 ✭✭✭boogle


    Forget all the spin, this is the truth about the collider:

    http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/large-hadron-collider.php


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    #82
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Why isnt this been covered more by da meedja?

    What arent they telling us?


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    #83
    hal9000
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭hal9000


    well Ill be skeeter if that isnt the fanciest looking donut ring doo-hickey I ever did see!


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    #84
    One-Day-Juande
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭One-Day-Juande


    Went to look at those photos there and my computer tried to commit suicide on me.

    Either my crappy slow computer couldn't handle loading some pictures...

    or it recognised it for what it was, the machine that will destroy everything. I'm gonna have to let my computer sleep with me tonight and convince it that it was all a bad dream.

    Shhhh it's ok.


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    #85
    Dogster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭Dogster


    The Large Hadron Collider seems to share some features with this baby
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    Hutchinson Whampoa's enormous $4.3-billion network accelerator or atpx 45/9697uv fast pipe splitter service, to be activated as early as October 2008, is generating both excitement and fear.

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    Best and Warm Regards
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    #86
    HashSlinging
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭HashSlinging


    Seems like a lot for just one black hole.


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    #87
    Riamfada
    Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    Is it not a bit dosconcerting that whoever loggs onto their website to view their pictures. Their computer crashes? If they cant get basic webdesign right I dont trust this large hardon thing. :pac:


    "Huge-Dick-Smasher-o-matic"
     lol

    http://wttf.org/strips/2008-02-01.jpg


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    #88
    flanum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭flanum


    HashSlinging wrote: »
    Seems like a lot for just one black hole.

    lols!


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    #89
    Conor108
    Registered Users Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    Whens it being activated nowadays?


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    #90
    rhapsody!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 529 ✭✭✭rhapsody!


    Well, to pass time, drink as much as you want because if the world ends then you won't have to wake up to a hangover so...

    apocalypse party wooooooowoooooo.

    :P


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    #91
    bus77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭bus77


    Conor108 wrote: »
    Whens it being activated nowadays?

    According to wikipedia, ''the first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.''


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