Large Hadron Collider - The Final Countdown!

[bhouncy]

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (dadadada dadadadada dadadada dadadadadadada) (http://quegrande.org/countdown/)

[FlyGuyOU]

thats a cool looking picture...what is it?

[bhouncy]

It's part of a particle smasher. They are going to fire protons into each other near the speed of light and see what happens. Maybe nothing. Maybe they will find the Higgs Boson particle. Maybe they will kill us all!

Here are some more impressive pics.
Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html)

[killerweed420]

Good news and bad news.
Bad news:
Its going to open a giant vortex to another dimension and the whole world is going to get sucked into it.
Good news:
There will be free weed for everyone.:jointsmile:

[Delta9 UK]

I think it will be MORE interesting if they don't find the Higgs

That means we need to do a re-think :thumbsup:

[LuciferN]

I think it will be more interesting if they create a mini black hole and warp themselves to another part of space. :stoned:

Or maybe in a parallel universe. We actually don't really know a lot about black holes. I just hope they don't "make" one !

[killerweed420]

They already did. I watched the documentary "The Mist".lol:jointsmile:

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

let's hope they create a self sustaining black hole with enough power to pull in faster-than-light particles and ultimately end up collapsing the entire solar system...


that'll teach y'all damned scientists to mess with physics!

[flyingimam]

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for some reason i cant get this thing to work in embed mode, if any1 knows why plz lemme know:( video's first screen did appear for a moment in post preview but then once i posted it, this is the crap that showed up!

this is a JAM!!! YouTube - Large Hadron Rap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM)

[flyingimam]

You take the 'j50ZssEojtM' part of the youtube link, and put it within

Like this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

great! :D

[Delta9 UK]

LOL - that video is superb thank you

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

errr.... doesnt magnetism hold the universe together?

[Delta9 UK]

errr.... doesnt magnetism hold the universe together?

Is this posted in the right thread? ;)

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

Is this posted in the right thread? ;)


haha sorry, i was responding to something one of the (in my honest opinion dumbassed) "scientists" said in the video lol

uhh...



maybe this thing will liquify all solid matter, turning liquids into the equivelants of solids now, gases, into the equivelant of current liquids and gases... uh into light? i dunno im just BSing at this point lol

[flyingimam]

u know what will be funny? if this thing ends the world as some suspect lol

that will be like the most unexpected and preventable thing in current world affairs!

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

DO black holes even "open"? (or close for that matter!)

[Delta9 UK]

For anyone worried - read the CERN safety page on the LHC:
The safety of the LHC (http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html)

[Esoteric416]

I think it would be MOST interesting if it works exactly as expected and the research leads to huge breakthroughs in quantum physics.

Stop laughing, it could happen! :D

[PlainJane]

Considering that there are not going to be any collisions until October I would be most surprised if they formed a black hole tomorrow.

[killerweed420]

For anyone worried - read the CERN safety page on the LHC:
The safety of the LHC (http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html)
Thats like going to Phillip Morris to find out how safe smoking is.:jointsmile:

[Coelho]

As a physicist, i should be excited about this new LHC, but i dont give it a damn anymore... what if they find the higgs boson? What will it change in my life, or yours, or everybodys else, for this matter? The only who will profit with this will be the few scientists that work there, which probably will win some nobel or something like this... but for us all, the world will keep being exactly the same, with higgs or without higgs.
I dont think they will create a black hole, but even if it happened, it would evaporate instantly, so we dont need worry about it.
And the LHC energy is not enough to enter "other dimensions" and things like this... But even if it were possible, still it would be completly useless. If they need a machine with dozens of miles to "open a door to another dimensions" with the size of a subatomic particle, how great should be the machine for make this "door" large enough for having any practical use?
Im pretty sure the world would be far more benefited if they take the money they wasted to make this enormous thing and used to fight the hunger, the poverty, and such...

[Delta9 UK]

Thats like going to Phillip Morris to find out how safe smoking is.:jointsmile:

LOL touche!

It really isn't that dangerous though, really.

honest... (ducks for cover come October)

Hawking has a bet for $100 that they won't find the Higgs - and I agree.

@Coelho: We could end world hunger and poverty tomorrow, it just needs the political will to do it and that (shamefully) doesn't exist. This is still important research imho but it has also been very expensive - it shouldn't be an either/or thing. We have the money and means to do both :)

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

what? they've got bets? f-damn i want in!

[motahead]

I am so excited for the end of the world! Should be cool.:thumbsup:

[TurnyBright]

I'm gonna go blow vacuum bubbles with my 17-mile bubble ring! Yay bubbles!

[flyingimam]

so when is this black hole gonna suck us all in at once? any1 knows exact day n time + date of the test?

[Delta9 UK]

It gets switched on in 5 mins (08:30 local GMT)

But the first collisions are not set until October iirc

To be honest though there are more 'energetic collisions' happening in my pants :thumbsup:

[flyingimam]

It gets switched on in 5 mins (08:30 local GMT)

But the first collisions are not set until October iirc

To be honest though there are more 'energetic collisions' happening in my pants :thumbsup:

ahahaha , u pervert! lol

[bhouncy]

Will be teleported to Xen?

[killerweed420]

What would happen if you put Obama in one end and McCain at the other end and fired them at each other?

[Coelho]

What would happen if you put Obama in one end and McCain at the other end and fired them at each other?

You would be doing a great good to mankind! :D

[GreenDestiny]

One of the doomsday scenarios involving this said that it would take about 4 years for the artificially created black hole or quasar or whateverthefuck would have enough energy to begin really destroying the world.

right on time for 2012.

maybe as it's eating up the planet, the extra gravity will pull in a meteor or comet too. We can go out with an extra helluva bang. or maybe it'll be the moon that will be reunited with the earth.

4 more years of peace on earth. party all you can.

[bhouncy]

Ahhh.. Mr Freeman.

[Delta9 UK]

What would happen if you put Obama in one end and McCain at the other end and fired them at each other?

McBamageddon?

[bhouncy]

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[flyingimam]

um, this is really disturbing... i rather die not knowing its coming my way or i will suffer day and night b4 i eventually become "nothing"

but i also think if such a think happens it will happen in a split second and guess what? the rest of our solar system will join us in there as well!

u know what, im gonna get me a G first order of business in the mornin, all this crap and the shitty hurricane coming my way... i dont wann die regretting why i didnt enjoy my last days when i could get some bud

1.5 years break is most likely gonna get a brief break till i find out if im gonna die or not within the next couple of months... then i will suspend smokin again if i was alive

[PlainJane]

^ this (http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/) is not the stuff that "ends the world"... that is happening subtly before our eyes. ;)

Any unlikely black holes that are formed will be so tiny and vanish almost instantly. You simply cannot artificially create the sort of scale of a black hole that would be cause for alarm. There's just not enough room for a massive star to collapse within this planet. Real estate is way too expensive! :D

[Fugitive]

Live webcam here:

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

[MIDNIGHTspecial]

Will be teleported to Xen?

lol,
I heard that someone sent a package to the scientists containing a crowbar, a half life 2 strategy guide, and a note that says: "get this to gordon freeman, he'll know what to do."

[Delta9 UK]

lol,
I heard that someone sent a package to the scientists containing a crowbar, a half life 2 strategy guide, and a note that says: "get this to gordon freeman, he'll know what to do."

LMFAO! That's solid Gold :thumbsup:

[Nightcrewman]

Live webcam here:

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

Just clicked on webcam link, very good, very witty but hopefully if this reply gets posted it's not happened yet :thumbsup:

Cheers
NCM

[bhouncy]

lol,
I heard that someone sent a package to the scientists containing a crowbar, a half life 2 strategy guide, and a note that says: "get this to gordon freeman, he'll know what to do."

:D

head crabs :rambo:

[bhouncy]

Live webcam here:

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

We're Dooooommed!

[bhouncy]

Atom-smasher hit by electrical hitch - Yahoo! News UK (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080918/tsc-science-physics-cern-c2ff8aa.html)

[nschell_420]

We're safe for at least 2 more months then. That's good.

[Nightcrewman]

We're safe for at least 2 more months then. That's good.

We are safe for a lot longer than that, the damned thing has broken down, you couldn't make it up,LOL

Cheers

NCM

[MadSativa]

I have heard some intersting stories, about this whole thing, such as another colider has been in exzistance for some time now, and it is in the US some where. Also the one collider is actulay a twin of another one built some where elese. But some of these stories are right outta star treck or the twilight zone, either way some one needs to make movies about these stories. Not all the black hole stuff, but the interesting stories that I think are made up but some crditiable people say they are true and they happend, and some say we unknowingly open up another pandoras box, but I would just like to see these stories on the big screen.

[JakeMartinez]

I thought they had already smashed a few protons to make sure the thing moves them...I read in Popular Science that what they're doing right now is finishing construction on the ATLAS monitoring systems...

[daihashi]

I thought they had already smashed a few protons to make sure the thing moves them...I read in Popular Science that what they're doing right now is finishing construction on the ATLAS monitoring systems...

yep.. they've already tested it. It works and is not broken down like others have suggested on here.

:thumbsup:

[bhouncy]

Took a while but we're back in business. :D