Evans the Atom

[Fugitive]

Meet Evans the Atom, who will end the world on Wednesday | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1053091/Meet-Evans-Atom-end-world-Wednesday.html)


The man behind the worldâ??s biggest scientific experiment, which critics claim could cause the end of the world, is a Welsh minerâ??s son who has admitted blowing things up as a child.


4 years.. ;)

[Algag]

sweet

[psychocat]

Funny that the same thing that got him interested in chemistry was my reason for studying it too. :D
I will be watching with great interest.

[flyingimam]

if i had the position to, just in case the world ends @ that moment, I would have been smoking when they do their thing... so at least i die high n happy :D

[smok3y]

Nice!

:jointsmile:

[SFGurrilla]

2008 + 4 = 2012

[rebgirl420]

2008 + 4 = 2012

UH OH! *dramatic music in the backround*

:tin foil hat:

[psychocat]

Have you got your sandwich board ready ?

[rebgirl420]

I'll take your Al Gore and raise you a desperate college kid haha.

[Fugitive]

Nothing happened :)

[dragonrider]

Ha ha! The article talks about the earth being eaten from the inside by a black hole or some kind of quasar! Or possibly being blown up in a runaway "strangelet" supernova!

And then it says:


But Dr Evans, the leader of the project, who has devoted 14 years of his life to building the vast particle accelerator, is dismissive of the doom-mongers.

In fact, he is so relaxed about the project, he even wears shorts to work.

Ha ha! What would he wear if he were worried, his lead-lined underpants?

[Fugitive]

Live webcam's:

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

[andruejaysin]

Damnit, does this mean we have to wait another 4 years to noid out over nothing? Someone has to have an end of the world scare more short term. BTW people on another forum thought the name of the thing was the large hardon collider. I didn't have the heart to tell them, that was just to fucking funny.

[sarah louise]

BTW people on another forum thought the name of the thing was the large hardon collider. I didn't have the heart to tell them, that was just to fucking funny.

ah ha, a bit like my granny insisting my cousin had to use HIV progamme to get pregnant.

Hmmmm particle physics rap YouTube - Large Hadron Rap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM)

[dragonrider]

BTW people on another forum thought the name of the thing was the large hardon collider.

Many scientists believe the "Big Bang" was the result of a "large hardon" colliding with a "black hole."

[Nightcrewman]

Many scientists believe the "Big Bang" was the result of a "large hardon" colliding with a "black hole."

Err! I think it might have been Hadron, but hey, your version would have been more interesting when some alien intelligence got round to writing the history of earth's destruction LOL.

Cheers

NCM

[Dutch Pimp]

:cool:...

[Chronisseur]

I'm sure alot of you will consider me 'nuts' or foolish, but I believe our 'evolutionary clock' is at about 11:48 pm.

To 'evolve' is to essentially be born, live/grow, die and repeat. Humanity can only survive in the most delicate environments, a niche if you will. Isnt THAT amazing enough?

It's funny how curiosity killed the cat...and THAT mofo had nine lives! ;)

[psychocat]

I'm sure alot of you will consider me 'nuts' or foolish, but I believe our 'evolutionary clock' is at about 11:48 pm.

To 'evolve' is to essentially be born, live/grow, die and repeat. Humanity can only survive in the most delicate environments, a niche if you will. Isnt THAT amazing enough?

It's funny how curiosity killed the cat...and THAT mofo had nine lives! ;)

Whenever this cat hears that he answers with "Satisfaction brought him back". :D

You don't ask the questions you aren't ever going to find the answers.. :thumbsup:

[flyingimam]

there in lies the dilemma... how much is our technology reliable??

Large Hadron Collider suffers glitch within hours of launch - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/09/19/scilhc119.xml)

The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle collider, malfunctioned within hours of its launch, but its operator did not report the problem for a week.

read up and there is an amazing video there as well, or at least it looked cool:D

[dragonrider]

The article said a 30-ton Transformer broke down.

A 30-ton Transformer --- isn't that one of those cars that turns into a robot? Does Optimus Prime work for CERN?

[flyingimam]

hahaha one more !

it seems world's karma doesnt want this thing to work!

AFP: Atom-smasher down for two months: CERN (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h2zaZP4p6OqK0DYADDMbb0i4zrNg)

Atom-smasher down for two months: CERN

8 hours ago

GENEVA (AFP) â?? The world's largest atom-smasher has been shut down for two months following a helium leak, just ten days after it was switched on amid great fanfare to probe the secrets of the universe.

"There has been an incident in a test. One section of the machine will have to be repaired," James Gillies, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), told AFP.

CERN said in a statement that a fault occurred on Friday afternoon, resulting in a "large helium leak into the tunnel.

"Preliminary investigations suggest that the most likely cause of the problem was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets, which probably melted at high current leading to mechanical failure," it said.

There was no risk to people, added the centre, saying that a full probe was underway.

"There are people in the tunnel right now, we'll be giving updates as soon as we can," said Gillies.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was started on September 10, with physicists cheering the successful testing of a clockwise beam, comprising strings of protons, and then an anticlockwise beam in preparatory testing ahead of first collisions.

But the LHC had to be shut down a week later due to an electrical hitch that affected a cooling system for high-powered magnets designed to steer beams of particles around the LHC's 27-kilometre (16.9-mile) circular tunnel.

The cooling system is important as the steering magnets in the LHC tunnel are chilled to as low as -271 degrees Celsius (-456.25 degrees Fahrenheit), which is close to absolute zero and colder than deep outer space.

At this extreme temperature, electrical currents overcome resistance, thus making it easier and cheaper to power electro-magnets.

The LHC was only turned back on again on Friday, but the latest setback has once again forced operations to halt.

As the sector where the fault occurred would have to be warmed up from its extreme temperature for repairs to take place, the LHC would now be halted for "a minimum of two months," resulting in further delays to the first collisions.

The LHC took nearly 20 years to complete and at six billion Swiss francs (3.76 billion euros, 5.46 billion dollars) is one of the costliest and most complex scientific experiments ever attempted.

It aims to resolve some of the greatest questions surrounding fundamental matter, such as how particles acquire mass and how they were forged in the "Big Bang" that created the universe some 13.7 billion years ago.

Counter-rotating beams are whizzed around the tunnel and then are smashed together in four huge laboratories.

Over the 10-15 years in which the LHC will operate, masses of data will spew from these collisions and will be scrutinised by physicists around the world.

The Holy Grail will be finding a theorised component called the Higgs Boson, which would explain how particles acquire mass. Also dubbed the "God particle," the Higgs is believed to be ubiquitous but has also been elusive until now.