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Are we nearing the end? LHC is turned on for the first time
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:47 am
by Jeemie
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26439957/
Are we on the threshold of a new understanding of the universe's origin, or will we create a black hole that swallows the earth?
Tune in in four years or so (Hmm- that would be 2012. Coincidence?)
Re: Are we nearing the end? LHC is turned on for the first
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:57 am
by eyégor
Jeemie wrote:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26439957/
Are we on the threshold of a new understanding of the universe's origin, or will we create a black hole that swallows the earth?
Tune in in four years or so (Hmm- that would be 2012. Coincidence?)
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fiiiine..."
Re: Are we nearing the end? LHC is turned on for the first
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:08 am
by Rexer25
eyégor wrote:Jeemie wrote:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26439957/
Are we on the threshold of a new understanding of the universe's origin, or will we create a black hole that swallows the earth?
Tune in in four years or so (Hmm- that would be 2012. Coincidence?)
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fiiiine..."
Some of the first protons to be accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider smashed into an absorbing device called a collimator at near light speed, producing a shower of particle debris recorded in this image. About an hour later the beam completed a full circuit of the 27km tunnel, to cheers from physicists (Image: CERN)
I don't see a black hole...
Re: Are we nearing the end? LHC is turned on for the first
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:20 am
by minimetoo26
Rexer25 wrote:eyégor wrote:Jeemie wrote:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26439957/
Are we on the threshold of a new understanding of the universe's origin, or will we create a black hole that swallows the earth?
Tune in in four years or so (Hmm- that would be 2012. Coincidence?)
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fiiiine..."
Some of the first protons to be accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider smashed into an absorbing device called a collimator at near light speed, producing a shower of particle debris recorded in this image. About an hour later the beam completed a full circuit of the 27km tunnel, to cheers from physicists (Image: CERN)
I don't see a black hole...
Are they killing those poor particles? I'm appalled!
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:20 am
by frogman042
...smashed into an absorbing device called a collimator at near light speed...
I've had a collimator once, it was not fun - I can't imagine what it would have been like if was performed at near light speed. Ouch! (I'm not even going to touch the black hole reference at this point)
---Jay (In Chang'an, China, according to 1st century records the first human in the air, using feathery wings occured in this year CE - know the year and you know the rest...)