just in case......

oleorezinator · Post by **oleorezinator** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:02 am

make sure you tell the kids about the change.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
If I should get sucked into the Large Hadron Collider before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:15 am

No...it's just not right.

Try this:

My alpha-waves I can't deny,
May all my 'lectrons orbit nigh,
(ok...gets a little awkward here...)
If I should get sucked into the Large Hadron Collider before I wake,
The dude who plotted that event horizon made a BIG mistake.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:17 am

Arr. Whaur's me boson. Arr.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:25 am

I understand virtually nothing about this machine other than that it has the potential to swallow the universe. Is there any way to describe what is going on in normal-people, non-astro physicist terms?

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:25 am

Nanohedron wrote:Arr. Whaur's me boson. Arr.

Probably with your bosun. He's the one with the whistle that plays three notes.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:32 am

Jack wrote:I understand virtually nothing about this machine other than that it has the potential to swallow the universe. Is there any way to describe what is going on in normal-people, non-astro physicist terms?

Here ya go.

Wait...This might be better.

the page I'm linking wrote:Starting sometime in the coming months, two beams of particles will race in opposite directions around the tunnel, which forms an underground ring 17 miles in circumference. The particles will be guided by more than a thousand cylindrical, supercooled magnets, linked like sausages. At four locations the beams will converge, sending the particles crashing into each other at nearly the speed of light. If all goes right, matter will be transformed by the violent collisions into wads of energy, which will in turn condense back into various intriguing types of particles, some of them never seen before. That’s the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:37 am

Hey I used to be blond!

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:40 am

Jack wrote:Hey I used to be blond!

Yeah...join the club.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:44 am

That’s the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out.

Sounds like your average session.

oleorezinator · Post by **oleorezinator** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:06 am

emmline wrote:No...it's just not right.

Try this:

My alpha-waves I can't deny,
May all my 'lectrons orbit nigh,
(ok...gets a little awkward here...)
If I should get sucked into the Large Hadron Collider before I wake,
The dude who plotted that event horizon made a BIG mistake.

i like, i'll try it.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:39 am

Nano wrote:Arr. Whaur's me boson. Arr.

Wasn't there an old salt's tale about the guy who tried to mate with his boson during a collision?

Or maybe it was an old saltine ....

djm

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:48 am

Glargh. It's too early in the day for your awful puns, Deej.

Thomaston · Post by **Thomaston** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:57 am

emmline wrote:No...it's just not right.

Try this:

My alpha-waves I can't deny,
May all my 'lectrons orbit nigh,
(ok...gets a little awkward here...)
If I should get sucked into the Large Hadron Collider before I wake,
The dude who plotted that event horizon made a BIG mistake.

Just to be needlessly anal, alpha waves are during wake, and then it shifts to theta and delta waves during sleep.

Am I the only one that keeps reading this as the Large Hardon Collider?

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:04 pm

Thomaston wrote:
emmline wrote:No...it's just not right.

Try this:

My alpha-waves I can't deny,
May all my 'lectrons orbit nigh,
(ok...gets a little awkward here...)
If I should get sucked into the Large Hadron Collider before I wake,
The dude who plotted that event horizon made a BIG mistake.
Just to be needlessly anal, alpha waves are during wake, and then it shifts to theta and delta waves during sleep.

Am I the only one that keeps reading this as the Large Hardon Collider?

Oh no...one can never be too anal.
Please, insert whichever of those terms--theta or delta--you find the most poetic.
On the other hand--wouldn't it be the alpha waves setting in which tell us to go to bed? Does it work from that standpoint? I am always happy to stand corrected.