we're still here!!!!!

[wyndhy]

we weren't swallowed up by weird particles or black holes and the universe, as we know it, survives.


so far;)

Hadron Collider (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080910-collider-success.html)

[Scarecrow]

Wooooo a Hard-on collider :starwars:

[jseal]

So far, so good. :)

[PantyFanatic]

we weren't swallowed up by weird particles or black holes and the universe, as we know it, survives.


so far;)

Hadron Collider (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080910-collider-success.html)
Darn! :banghead: That was my retirement program.

[wyndhy]

:roflmao:
at the expense of the rest of us? mean old man:p

[Oldfart]

If I remember correctly, those sliding into a black hole would be unaware of the event.

[scotzoidman]

If I remember correctly, those sliding into a black hole would be unaware of the event.
Other than everyone becoming spaghetti-fied?

[dicksbro]

If we were unaware of the event then ... OMG ... maybe it did work.

Everything's gotten dark!


Oh wait, I had my eyes closed.

[Lilith]

I was very excited all day about this. *waited*waited*waited* no kaboom.


My son had to say goodbye to someone he loves today and I said, "it's not forever" and he said, "umm it could be if we all get sucked into the black hole." OK good point kid. Kiss me too :D Just in case.

[Aqua]

I really do love that kid of yours, Lil. :D

[Lilith]

He loves you too!

[Oldfart]

Scotz,

I have no fear of spaghettification for I am a secret pastafarian (with parmesan).

Yea though I walk through the process of spaghettification, no evil shall I fear,

because I am the (slurp) . . . . . .

[dicksbro]

Scotz,

I have no fear of spaghettification for I am a secret pastafarian (with parmesan).

Yea though I walk through the process of spaghettification, no evil shall I fear,

because I am the (slurp) . . . . . .

Hmmm ... wasn't that the 23rd recipe from the Book of Pasta.

[Oldfart]

Indeed, psalm say it is so.

[gekkogecko]

I have no fear of spaghettification for I am a secret pastafarian (with parmesan).

Can I get a RAmen from the congregation?

Of course the world is still here, they haven't even gotten to the contra-rotating part yet, let alone where they aim the freakin' beams at each other.

[sodaklostsoul]

Laughing out loud at all you ^^^^^^^^^^^ crazy and wonderful peeps.

[jseal]

I hope I anger no one by waxing poetic about the LHC; it is an awesome machine. When it is running in production, the protons going through it will be travelling within 30cm a second of the speed of light. That speed (beyond which it is impossible to accelerate) is 299,792 km a second. The accelerated protons will transit the 27 km ring 11,000 times each second! The power of this accelerator is about 100 million times that of the first cyclotrons tested by Ernest Lawrence at UC Berkeley (let's hear it for Oski the Bear!). Those were only a foot or so in circumference, but the basic idea behind the devices is unchanged.

It is one helluva microscope!

[FussyPucker]

I found two websites that anyone interested in this project has to see:-

Handy website in case you need to know....
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

LHC Webcams so you can see what's happening.....
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

It really is a wonderful experiment.

[FussyPucker]

Oh and if you don't have £3+Billion and the space to build a LHC but you still want to look for dark matter and find the answers to life, the universe and everything why not find a potash mine in the north of England and pack it with super sensitive equipment?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/2981103.stm

:)

[jseal]

Here is another take on the LHC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM). :)

[Lilith]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/18/hadron.collider.transformer.breaks.ap/index.html

[jseal]

Sic transit Gloria Mundi. :(

[wyndhy]

no way^^^ a minor setback. with so many parts, it's inevitable there will be breakages and failures and such. just a bump

[jseal]

I sure hope so! This tool can complete - and take us BEYOND - the Standard Model.

[Oldfart]

Something this complex will have breakdowns, Mr Murphy demands it..

It's the good bits in the middle that'll be awesome.

[jseal]

It seems the LHC will be down for 2 months. It has taken a long time to get it, I guess another couple of months is not too bad.

[scotzoidman]

Apparently there were some ill effects from messing with quantum physics; all the gasoline in Tennessee seems to have been sucked into some kind of black hole.

[wyndhy]

:roflmao:
weird

[gekkogecko]

Excerpt from the press relaease on CERN's webiste ( http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ ): "...it is already clear that the sector will have to be warmed up for repairs to take place. This implies a minimum of two months down time for LHC operation."

suXXorz

[jseal]

According to the BBC, the LHC now will be shut off until spring 2009 while the engineers work on the magnet failure problem. At least it will give them a larger window to resolve the problem.

[wyndhy]

snafu

[Oldfart]

fubar?

[wyndhy]

uh. NACK.

can't come up with a better one.:D

[Oldfart]

woftam.


(Waste of fucking time and money)

[Aqua]

They should have just invested in a SOFA™.

[scotzoidman]

Now there's an idea everybody can get behind. 700 billion my ass.

[Oldfart]

Selling it at last, Scotz?

Sick of driving?

[scotzoidman]

Nah, just wishing some of that govt. $$$ could have trickled down for R & D towards building an even better SOFA. Is that so wrong?

[Oldfart]

No, it's not wrong.

The economy will be gone the way of the dinosaurs, but at least we'll be smiling.

[jseal]

This time for sure! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8368417.stm) :thumb:

[scotzoidman]

A smashing time guaranteed for all?

[dicksbro]

This time for sure! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8368417.stm) :thumb:
From the article jseal linked to, "Engineers have sent proton particles all the way round the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine for the first time in more than a year."

At this early hour when I went to read that article, jseal, my mind read the large "HARDON" Collider ... and my first thought was, "It shot it's wad." Oh well, it's early. :D

[Oldfart]

DB, it's time has truly come.

[dicksbro]

Did you mean "cum?" :roflmao:

[gekkogecko]

No, but the string of really bad puns mean it's tempting to stick you in the collider.