September 10, 2008: Recreating the Big Bang
 

http://cellar.org/2008/cellarbigbang.jpg

aka faking an orgasm?

The image is of the Large Hadron Collider built by CERN, which the BBC reports is ready to be powered up after 30 years of planning and construction. It will be the world's most powerful physics experiment.

More on the Science of it all here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7604293.stm I just think it looks cool ;)

looks like an octopus drawing you in

Who ever picked the colors must have been a Denver Broncos fan.

There's a passably cool/nerdy rap on youtube explaining it all.
I can't link for you cause I am at work, don't want to look toooooo idle. Some keyword searches should find it.

Black holes drag in matter from their surroundings. Some critics fear the collider could create a miniature black hole that could swell and swallow the Earth:eek:

Fortunately, there's a way to find out if the LHC has in fact destroyed the earth.

And an RSS feed.

Particles liberated in this new superdupercollider will exist only for miniscule fractions of second, and they will be the much the same as zillions of particles that zip through us and the planet every second of every day, totally unnoticed. They will simply be liberated where they can be studied.

Hawking has long proven that mini black holes must exist if the rest of black hole theory is reasonably correct, so it is rather likely that we've encountered them before and didn't even realize it.

...or we might all wake up in the 11th dimension in a few days.

Here's a link to the rap ZenGum was talking about;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

Actual conversation in my household when I brought up this thread:

Me: Cool. Hey, want to see a picture of the Large Hadron Collider?
Him: Sure, I guess... Yeah, it looks like pretty much any other particle accelerator.
Me: I've never seen a particle accelerator before.
Him: [laughs]
Me: Why is that funny?
Him: I don't know. It just is.

Well I imagine when you've got large Hardons colliding you'd get a big bang. Am I missing something here?

Except for the critics, that sounds like the description I use in my craigslist ads. :D

OMG you really are one of those freaks from Craigslist, arent you?

Gotta love the work of M.C. Escher. ;)

So, you know the list huh? ;)

could have been Texas... the SSC

Oh Gawd......

If they painted it silver and black, it'd only find 14 particles, vs the 41 it'll find in orange and blue. Go Broncos!

Sorry, couldn't help it.

Well, in case the resonance cascade hits us, you would be well adviced to have your red crowbar handy. :nuke: :angel:

Well, I am a science geek.. This was a truly big and anticipated event in the history of science. I'm just drooling and sneaking and hopping around any news concerning all the multiple experiments at LHC like a squirrel around a nut he can't get. :ninja: Or whatever... :)

I have lots of experience with mini black holes. Nearly everything I drop disappears into one of them, along with a fair number of mundane household objects on a daily basis.

I am back briefly. Computer technician son sent me this yesterday-The Top 10 Ways the LHC Will Blow Your Mind. http://dvice.com/archives/2008/09/top_10_ways_the.php

You forgot this reason;
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...er&vt=lf&hl=en

Great live camera shots of the LHC here...
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html :eek:

:eek:

When it fails to work as planned, it'll probably make a great microwave .... I mean to say ... can you imagine the SIZE of the pizza, you could reheat in THAT!! .. :rolleyes: :D

Screw that!

Think of how many poodles you could dry!

Hadron Collider has first collisions. (looks around) I'm still here!

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11...st-collisions/

Wait.

OK, could one of you smart folks put that in something I might be able to relate to, please?

kthxbai

If it works we're all dead. :cheers:
I kid... I hope.

I think one electronvolt is the same as a normal volt (like in a 9-Volt battery,) but I could be wrong.

It is the amount of energy an electron picks up accelerating across an electrostatic potential difference of one volt.

There, did that make your life better?

[tw]of course! this is real science the basic kind that matters without that useless human stuff[/tw]

That's because after they're done with it, there won't be any useless human stuff left anywhere.

I hate to throw a simple statement in here, but isn't this sort of like an investment?

For the Geeks, this article
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...d-the-lhc.html
explains what it is doing, why, and where it can go next.

There will be a test next Friday. Study hard.

ETA

This one
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...html?full=true
Is less user friendly but is better on the science.

Is the test this friday as in the next friday or next friday as in next week. I need to schedule my time accordingly. kthxbai

Both. It's a quantum thing.

I so hope we find our way back from next Friday.

I'm looking forward to when they start selling Pet Black Holes.

Seriously, if we could create a pet black hole and contain it in some kind of toroidal magnetic field, that would solve all of our toxic waste disposal problems.

And unemployment, Camp X-Ray, and what to do with Sarah Palin all in one...

Date: Nov. 28, 2009

:p


Just think! We'll all meet ourselves coming the other way.

I think they'll have it perfected some time in ... oh ... say ... 2012.

Puh...don't know how many times I have to tell you guys the aliens are coming back for us in 2011. I'll be laughing as my bags are packed and I'm ready to go, and y'all are running around looking for your favorite socks.

Don't forget to wear your new Nikes.

Haggis - errr very interesting

That's cool. But really, what about the tape craft contest? $5K is nothing to sneeze at.

You may have seen this in the news, but it's really amazing/interesting/confusing.

Researchers at CERN have successfully made nutrinos travel faster than the speed of light, which is impossible. Fermilab in Chicago had reached similar results a few years ago, but their antiquated american equipment is so crappy, the margin of error was greater than the amount by which nutrinos exceeded light speed, so they tossed out the results. The newer CERN facility is much better and its margin of error is smaller, so they are certain that their results are accurate. Except for the little matter of it being impossible.

I really wish we hadn't scrapped our half built super collider in Texas. it would be useful to have a state of the art facility to compare the CERN results to.

Then they might have created anti-gravitons and sent Texas flinging out into space.

I hear that everytime I watch The Big Bang Theory, but I only now learned that it's by The Barenaked Ladies! Who'dathought.

My ex-roommate got sick of me saying, every time, "That's the Barenaked Ladies, you know." ;)

The Big Bang Theory makes me cringe.
To me it's a typical American comedy in that they forgot to put in the comedy and instead just used stereotypical characters, some shouting and occasional gay innuendo.
(John Barrowman auditioned as Will for Will and Grace - he was rejected for being too straight. So they employed a straight actor instead. But hey, thank FSM)

Sorry.
I thought Friends was awful, so what do I know?

ETA - to balance, there are British comedy shows that I find lame too.

Oh, another pooh-pooh.

We're such philistines.

Try watching Keeping Up Appearances with a straight face.
You'll think the wind has frozen it there.

Or My Family.
Or many more.

I might pooh-pooh. But I pooh-pooh on merit according to my own tastes, not according to awards or critics' choices or longevity. I pooh-pooh as I see fit. Etc etc ;)

There are British comedy shows since Monty Python? I kid, I'm kidding, I swear!

The only thing we can be sure of is that everything we know is wrong.

This would somehow be a bad thing?

:D