Large Hadron Collider

To be fair to the throbbing frontal lobed geeks running this little jolly, you can't know the full implications of anything. It's the nature of the universe.

According to my other half reports from Radio 4 indicate that there might be a collision today.
They've passed beams in both directions already, and it had done the first 13km in half an hour.

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Theres a similar chance as the hadron collider doing any damage (like creating a black hole) as there is of me being able to put my hand through a warm wall because the bouncing molecules happened to align and let it pass right through

I was wondering where Tynan has been for the last couple of weeks . . clearly his search for a power source for the HHSB Light Sabre Post has been taken to another level

They both favour white hats and erectronics.. I think you're onto something!

Theres a similar chance as the hadron collider doing any damage (like creating a black hole) as there is of me being able to put my hand through a warm wall because the bouncing molecules happened to align and let it pass right through

David Copperfield does that in his sleep.

if youre worried as to when the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world, use this website for live updates....www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com

I think the scientists arguments against the charge that they are going to destroy the Universe is that:
a) Particles are constantly slamming into the atmosphere at close to light speed/relatavistic speeds, and that has not killed us all yet
b) It's a really cool toy so let them have a go

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Even better

http://largehardoncollider.com/nyt_lhc.gif

A comment that's been posted regarding whether or not the LHC will wreak havoc and destruction on us all:

If 10,000 of the world's most intelligent scientists are all wrong, then the human species might as well go extinct.

To do real BAAAAAAAAAAAD Shit you'd need a path circumference round the planet plus a little more material- which given the mass implications makes getting to the speed of light even more difficult, which we cant do now.
Saying that, would losing France and Switzerland to bitz of string be that bad?

if youre worried as to when the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world, use this website for live updates....www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com

who changes it over to the Yup page when it does destroy the world?

who changes it over to the Yup page when it does destroy the world?

That's the joke.

Or a theological question?

Or a theological question?

yup

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The way I see it:

A Texan warlord with the IQ of a mentally challenged chimpanzee with his finger on the nuclear button and the capacity to destroy the world hundreds of times over is a far greater threat than the Large Hadron Collider which has been planned for the last 20 or so years by hundreds of eminent scientists who are the leading minds in their field and will have run millions of simulations of the potential outcomes of this experiment.

Yet which one do we choose to get worked up about? The idea of being swallowed by a black whole is actually far more appealing than being vaporised in a nuclear blast.

who changes it over to the Yup page when it does destroy the world?

Someone who isn't in/on the world..

We're doomed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM&eurl=http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/top-10-amazing.html

I work for the Institute of Physics and we had to issue a press release earlier in the week to assure people that the world would not end! Made BBC breakfast news (for what that's worth) and also the Guardian which is quite exciting for us! Needed Steven Hawkins this morning to enforce the point! Basically the force of a collision is about the same as two gnats running into each other! If that's enough to create a black hole we are all doomed! :-)

man i cant wait for my hoverboard, and the post apocalyptic future that comes with it.

[quote=Dammit;289084] as they possibly rashly cross the streams of the two colossal energy guns, ramming protons into one another at almost light speed.

In Ghostbusters crossing the 'streamers' was a bad thing right? We knew that back in the 80's...

Keep up to date with developments through new webcam...
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Keep up to date with developments through new webcam...
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Brilliant!

love it, for a nano second when the red lights started flashing I did actually start to worry