Large Hadron Collider

[hm0504]

Those of you who have been following the development of the recently finished Large Hadron Collider [1] and the concerns over its black hole experiments may find these live webcams of it interesting (you should watch for at least 15 seconds):

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

[1] http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080910/sc_livescience/willthelargehadroncolliderdestroyearth

[Qikdraw]

We're all going to die.

[brainyguy9999]

HA!!! Very funny!!

I'm hoping they discover a way to make a better television set. Like when they discovered the electron and people asked "What good does it do us?" And then they created Cathode Ray Tubes...

Stay nude!! (and dodge any black holes you see coming toward you. They can be nasty.)

bg

[Navigator]

Pretty Funny.

So.....a neutron walks into a bar in Geneva and says to the bartender: "How much for a scotch and soda?"

The bartender says: "For you, no charge."



(nerd joke alert!!! shocked)

[brazhunter]

Pretty Funny.

So.....a neutron walks into a bar in Geneva and says to the bartender: "How much for a scotch and soda?"

The bartender says: "For you, no charge."


(nerd joke alert!!! shocked)

Drum roll, rimshot!!

[usmc1]

I'm really excited about this. I read everything I can, that is in layperson language. I'm currently reading a Short History of Everything, which has some good chapters on this general topic.

Some things being hinted at are pretty much beyond the human mind's ability to fathom or even imagine. For example, how can particles be in one place and in an instant be in another place without having passed through the intervening space? Or how is it that particles pop into existence, apparently from nowhere, and just as suddenly depart back from whence they came?

And the grand-daddy of mind stretchers is that the universe, starting at a point of singularity is expanding, but its expansion is into nothingness, as there is nothing outside the universe. It's not as though the universe is like a balloon expanding into the space around it, there is absolutely nothing outside the universe. Nothing, in this case does not mean an empty void, there is not even an empty void, there is nothing!

Some of the theories hint at 11 dimensions, yet we have not a clue as to what those dimensions might be.

[Dolby]

Interesting thoughts usmc1. Sometimes when I'm watching a tv show about the universe I find that I can't always get my head around some of the things they talk about. I guess that's why I'm not a scientist or physicist.

Eleven dimensions? Way too many. I can barely understand the Fifth Dimension!

[lordshipmayhem]

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? Answer here!! (http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/)

[DSailing]

I see no purpose in it.

[Naturist Mark]

I heard that when they turned on the Large Hadron Collider for the first time it did nothing for several minutes, then displayed the number "42".

-Mark

[lordshipmayhem]

I heard that when they turned on the Large Hadron Collider for the first time it did nothing for several minutes, then displayed the number "42".

-Mark

Well of course. It's running Linux which, like "42", is the universal answer to everything!! :D

(With apologies to the *BSD fans out there!!)

[Qikdraw]

I heard that when they turned on the Large Hadron Collider for the first time it did nothing for several minutes, then displayed the number "42".

-Mark

LOL

One of my favorite books of all time. I even had my wife read it, and she liked it too. :D

[Bob S.]

I am very interested in the findings regarding any hint at the Higgs Boson and therefore, part of the answer of the theoretical Higgs Field. How was it that pure energy coalesced into mass? That is what this experiment is trying to determine.

Bob S.

[Bob S.]

An update on the collider. There has been a malfunction that led to a helium leak. Liquid Helium act as a super-coolant to conduct the experiment in near absolute-zero conditions.

The collider will be down at least two months. The reason for the lengthy downtime is because they have to gradually warm it up in order to get in to fix it, and then gradually cool it down again. That takes a lot of time.

Bob S.

[PBinglevum]

"And the grand-daddy of mind stretchers is that the universe, starting at a point of singularity is expanding, but its expansion is into nothingness, as there is nothing outside the universe. It's not as though the universe is like a balloon expanding into the space around it, there is absolutely nothing outside the universe. Nothing, in this case does not mean an empty void, there is not even an empty void, there is nothing!"

Or to look at it another way, everything could be getting smaller. Which from our perspective makes the gaps between cosmic matter seem further. Now that would explain a few things to my wife ! Size matters.