Large Hadron Collider

jkwest · Post by **jkwest** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:17 pm

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?

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:21 pm

I have no concerns about this, as it is a well-known fact that certain benign agencies from other worlds are monitoring its progress and are prepared to act in case of any unforseen complications.

djm

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:01 pm

They turned it on and burned a big hole in California

Ventura County.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:43 pm

Thoughts:
It will not create a black hole.

That thing sure eats a heap o' real estate.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:48 pm

we're going to try and get a tour, our's here is just too small. we need more POWER!

jkwest · Post by **jkwest** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:02 pm

dwest wrote:They turned it on and burned a big hole in California Ventura County.

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:14 pm

Denny already posted a photo of what's about to happen. Prepare to meet your 11-dimensional overlords!

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:19 pm

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

jkwest · Post by **jkwest** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:45 pm

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...

Post by **Dale** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:47 pm

I'm ready to get sucked into Western Europe and compressed into semi-nothingness. Let's get small, y'all.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:40 pm

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!

oleorezinator · Post by **oleorezinator** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:55 am

remember, pack a towel.

Killaloe · Post by **Killaloe** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:21 am

Hmmm kinda makes you wonder what happens if it has just one lose wire?

Getting sucked into a balckhole??

Could be worse ways to die. Think of the view!

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:23 am

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

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:37 am

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.

Ugh. Call the metaphor police.

What the heck is a "boffin", anyway?