Large Hadron Collider = End of the World?

[Stoic]

I think Kaylee says it best...

"Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me."

CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang

[i-grok]

1. I get a hadron just thinkin' about it.

:evilgrin:

[Tesha]

They should be baryon you for that pun! You should be lepton and crushed!

If you're going to get fermion us, I don't wanna know about it!
Especially if you make a meson your clothes.

Tesha

[Tesha]

27. (Ah -- DU must be busy. Self-deleting a dupe)

[neverforget]

2. Palin and the Rapture Fundies would love it to be the end of the world.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. No. According to SOME posters, one Gallup poll = End of the World.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

22. !

Nicely played~!

[cobalt1999]

4. Well, at least it'll be a quick and painless end.

In a few billion years our dying sun will boil the planet away anyway.

[annabanana]

5. Oh is that THIS Wednesday?

(Remind me to stock up on slim jims and seltzer...)

[annabanana]

8. LARGE HADRON RAP!

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

(scientifically correct!)

[Lyric]

12. OMG.

That was, in a word, FUCKINAWESOME.

:thumbsup:

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. They have a proper pop star working on it

1994: D:REAM reach #1 in the UK charts with "Things Can Only Get Better", with Brian Cox on keyboards
2008: Professor Brian Cox of Manchester University works on the ATLAS experiment on the LHC - and the BBC wisely get him to front their programmes on it.

wikipedia

[Lex]

24. I love that video!

:thumbsup:

[FVZA_Colonel]

6. Didn't an earlier particle accelerator already do a "near big-bang" test?

We're still here, so I doubt anything bad will happen.

[mrfrapp]

11. Yes

The LHC (and other particle accelerators) allows us to measure the result of particle collisions, something that happens all the time in nature. The LHC is a measuring device not a doomsday machine.

[Tesha]

28. RHIC prompted this concern as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Heavy_Ion_Collider

Tesha

[Canuckistanian]

7. That would be a bummer

I have a job interview on Thursday.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Hell yeah, boy!

[knitter4democracy]

10. They said the same thing about MSU's cyclotron lab.

When they first opened it, and people would freak out every time they built a newer and better one. We're all still here.

[zippy890]

14. that thing is incredible

Large Hadron Collider


I think its beautiful. National Geographic did a photo spread a few months back.
what a fete of engineering

17 miles around underground

and I cant wait until they discover...........whatever they discover!


:party:

[MilesColtrane]

15. .

[Buenaventura]

16. does this mean i may not have to vacuum next weekend?

[bmbmd]

17. Whatever you do

don't cross the streams. That would be bad.

[CitizenLeft]

18. OMG...

:rofl:

thank you for that!

[Tesha]

29. But that's precisely the idea! ;-) (NT)

[krispos42]

19. A black hole vastly smaller than an electron doesn't worry me

Worst case is that is falls to the center of the earth, sucking up like 5 carbon atoms on the way down.


I bet the "snap" as the thing engages will be awesome, though! I imagine all these Swiss people sitting in their homes, watching TV, then -snap- all metal furnishings slide three feet to one side...

[PVnRT]

20. This is why journalism majors need to learn more science

If they did, they would know that the LHC poses less threat to the Earth than a cute, fluffy bunny.

[cobalt1999]

21. Like this one...

[bmbmd]

23. That rabbit's got a mean streak

a mile wide.

[Evoman]

25. I can't believe people are so afraid of this.....oooh black holes.

Even if the thing doesn't blink out almost immediately, the microscopically tiny event horizon will ensure that absolutely nothing happens.

[okieinpain]

26. man I've always wanted to be married to a science girl. n/t.