Large Hadron Collider
- jkwest
- Posts: 838
- Joined: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:01 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: the beautiful, untainted NorCal..yes there is one..
Large Hadron Collider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
It goes live this month...
some speculations seem to think that if something goes wrong, it could create a black hole..
any thoughts on this thing?
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
It goes live this month...
some speculations seem to think that if something goes wrong, it could create a black hole..
any thoughts on this thing?
- MTGuru
- Posts: 18663
- Joined: Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:45 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Location: San Diego, CA
Denny already posted a photo of what's about to happen. Prepare to meet your 11-dimensional overlords!
Vivat diabolus in musica! MTGuru's (old) GG Clips / Blackbird Clips
Joel Barish: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.
Joel Barish: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.
- peeplj
- Posts: 9029
- Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2002 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: forever in the old hills of Arkansas
- Contact:
It is not a serious worry.
We know that much higher-energy collisions occur in nature, and they don't appear to destabilize the celestial bodies involved.
Of course, they don't necessarily happen on inhabited planets.
On the other hand, you can't anticipate everything. Sometimes you just have to flip the switch and hope.
Look at the bright side: in a reality-falls-down-and-goes-boom scenario, nobody's gonna care what your credit score is. And gas will be, like, free. In fact, it'll probably be all that's left.
--James
We know that much higher-energy collisions occur in nature, and they don't appear to destabilize the celestial bodies involved.
Of course, they don't necessarily happen on inhabited planets.
On the other hand, you can't anticipate everything. Sometimes you just have to flip the switch and hope.
Look at the bright side: in a reality-falls-down-and-goes-boom scenario, nobody's gonna care what your credit score is. And gas will be, like, free. In fact, it'll probably be all that's left.
--James
http://www.flutesite.com
-------
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending" --Carl Bard
-------
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending" --Carl Bard
- jkwest
- Posts: 838
- Joined: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:01 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: the beautiful, untainted NorCal..yes there is one..
well...they are shooting it in 6 days...
if you need a reservation to see your priest, I'd book it now...
here's a great slide show of the LHC...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/0 ... lider.html
Warning....large photos...don't open if you are on Dialup...
if you need a reservation to see your priest, I'd book it now...
here's a great slide show of the LHC...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/0 ... lider.html
Warning....large photos...don't open if you are on Dialup...
- emmline
- Posts: 11859
- Joined: Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:33 am
- antispam: No
- Location: Annapolis, MD
- Contact:
That could be an interesting place to work.
I wonder if the left hand ever has any idea what the right hand is doing
I also wonder if it came with an folded sheet of assembly instructions, like the wire handlebar basket I just mounted on my bike today...
Step 1:
Check to see that you have all the listed parts.
Additionally, you will need:
1 Phillips-head screwdriver
1 5mm Hex Wrench
1 small block of wood to insulate breakable parts from your ham-fisted hammering.
(Need help? Call IKEA's friendly answer staff!)
Step 2:
Insert three (3) Muon Small Wheels into ATLAS Magnet Toroid End-Cap A.
(A second person will be helpful for this step.)
Be sure that the L3 magnet is positioned + end out or damage to the product could result!
I wonder if the left hand ever has any idea what the right hand is doing
I also wonder if it came with an folded sheet of assembly instructions, like the wire handlebar basket I just mounted on my bike today...
Step 1:
Check to see that you have all the listed parts.
Additionally, you will need:
1 Phillips-head screwdriver
1 5mm Hex Wrench
1 small block of wood to insulate breakable parts from your ham-fisted hammering.
(Need help? Call IKEA's friendly answer staff!)
Step 2:
Insert three (3) Muon Small Wheels into ATLAS Magnet Toroid End-Cap A.
(A second person will be helpful for this step.)
Be sure that the L3 magnet is positioned + end out or damage to the product could result!
- oleorezinator
- Posts: 1625
- Joined: Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:21 am
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: I love uilleann pipes I love tin whistles I love flutes I love irish music I love concertinas I love bodhrans
- Location: Behind the anthracite and shale curtain.
Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe
"It is difficult for strange matter to stick together in the high temperatures produced by such colliders, rather as ice does not form in hot water". Although soup can be made in hot water, it seems that strangelet soup can't, or anyway not this kind of hot water. It ought to be called strangelet gazpacho, really; that would avoid confusion.
YMMV
"It is difficult for strange matter to stick together in the high temperatures produced by such colliders, rather as ice does not form in hot water". Although soup can be made in hot water, it seems that strangelet soup can't, or anyway not this kind of hot water. It ought to be called strangelet gazpacho, really; that would avoid confusion.
YMMV
Ugh. Call the metaphor police.Denny noted that Some Boffin wrote:It is difficult for strange matter to stick together in the high temperatures produced by such colliders, rather as ice does not form in hot water". Although soup can be made in hot water, it seems that strangelet soup can't, or anyway not this kind of hot water. It ought to be called strangelet gazpacho, really; that would avoid confusion.
What the heck is a "boffin", anyway?