The LHC!

SerephelSerephel
edited July 18 in For SCIENCE
It's on! It's on! The Large Hadron Collider is turned on!

Hooray!

This is a great day for SCIENCE! We will hopefully be one step closer to explaining why the universe does what it does! Let us find the elusive Higgs Boson!

We should continually post here as a way to show contempt for those doomsday naysayers who don't understand SCIENCE!

And if we're wrong and they're right... well it won't really matter after that now will it?

Comments

  • deku12345deku12345
    edited September 2008
    Yay for not being apocalypted!
  • QueenQuinlinQueenQuinlin
    edited September 2008
    We're not dead! Those naysayers obviously don't know SCIENCE!
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited September 2008
    The Higgs Boson is actually Jesus.

    Discuss.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited September 2008
    If the Higgs Boson is Jesus, then the Catholics have been transubstantiating it for the last 2000 years or so.

    Hey I got a joke I heard on the internets!

    What do you get when you put a cat into a particle accelerator?

    A fucking mess.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited September 2008
    This oughtta clear things up. This is a CERN-sponsored video, apparently.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited September 2008
    http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

    Hey, there's a RSS feed too!

    http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/rss.xml
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited September 2008
    Well.... it's still a little too early to tell, apparently the first collisions won't happen for about two months.
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited September 2008
    Still, what a relief I can get regular updates!
  • brucebruce
    edited September 2008
    Oh, I got all my affairs in order last night, though. I played and finished Portal in like three hours just in case :(
  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited September 2008
    I was so excited for today. Activating the LHC can only end in massive amounts of SCIENCE!, apocalyptic doom, or super powers. Everybody wins!
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited September 2008
    Apparently it was being referred to as the "Large Hardon Collider" for a few hours on CNN.com this morning in one of the articles.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited September 2008
    I'm actually very, very terrified of this new thing.

    Too many things we have no idea about.

    They're saying "uh...let's do it and see what happens"
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited September 2008
    Stop worrying. The odds that this thing will create a black hole is infintesimally small, and even if those EXTREMELY EXTREMELY LOW ODDS pay out (I'm talking getting struck by lightning twice while winning the lotto jackpot in several states all on the same day that Mario updates Zelda Comic times a billion) the physics of it mandate that the ABSOLUTELY TINY black hole will either

    A) Evaporate into nothingness.
    or
    B) Be ejected from the earth's gravitational field at near-light speed, being too small to interact with any of the Earth's matter in any significant way.

    Stop adding to the ridiculous hysterics.
  • QueenQuinlinQueenQuinlin
    edited September 2008
    Don't feel bad, Agentcel, fear is the natural reaction to knowledge!
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited September 2008
    They say everything is bigger in Texas.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited September 2008
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    Urgent update, September 10, 2008

    It is our duty to inform you that as of 7:35:05am UTC on September 10, 2008, the Earth has been destroyed.

    The destruction of Earth was first reported by Mr Jonathan Barber of Wisconsin, United States, who spotted that his home-made seismic Earth Detector had ceased to give readings at around 8:00am (2am local time). Several other amateur geocide spotters noticed this at the same time but Mr. Barber was the first to place a telephone call to the IEDAB's Geocide Hotline (+44 115 09Ω 4127, ask for Other Dave) at which point IEDAB officials performed an emergency check of their own instrumentation and verified Mr. Barber's report, as well as fixing the exact time of geocide.

    Evidence is still being collated, but preliminary results suggest that the Earth was destroyed pre-emptively by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, before the commencement of their experiments to locate the Higgs Boson, as a precautionary measure to ensure that the experiment itself could not result in the destruction of the Earth.
  • brucebruce
    edited September 2008
    How odd, earth still seems to be here. Still, we'd better all drink beer and eat peanuts.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited September 2008
    Night Lord wrote: »
    How odd, earth still seems to be here. Still, we'd better all drink beer and eat peanuts.
    From the FAQ on the same page:
    The Earth hasn't been destroyed! What are you talking about?

    Some of you will find it tougher to let go than others. There will be counselling sessions running on Pluto starting in mid-April. The first is at 7:15pm on Thursday 18th. BYOO2.
  • QueenQuinlinQueenQuinlin
    edited September 2008
    Hallelujah! I didn't think I could get over the trauma of losing my home planet!
  • brucebruce
    edited September 2008
    Drooling Iguana wrote: »
    From the FAQ on the same page:

    Goddamnit, you will not take away my opportunity to drink beer and eat some bloody peanuts. You got it?!
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited September 2008
    My cell phone, which I use as an alarm, mysteriously lost two hours last night, and I was consequently two hours late for work. My computer and wrist watch were on the same time.

    Clearly it had something to do with the earth being destroyed.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited September 2008
    Has anyone checked on the dolphins recently?
  • deku12345deku12345
    edited September 2008
    Live webcam of the LHC:
    http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

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