LHC Created 16 years ago2008-09-09 08:43:28 UTC by kraken

yes, the large hadron collider is being tested tomorrow (10th) with a small chance (perhaps null in effect) of destroying the world!

this is probably the most advanced structure ever built by man, do you think it is right to turn it on given that there is a risk of annihilating the world? I mean it did take a very long time, and a lot of money to build, perhaps not using means it was just a huge waste of time and money.

do you think it is right to turn it on given that there is a risk of annihilating the world?

Science fiction might make people believe that, but I'm actually interested in what kind of discoveries we'll make with this thing.

I am more so interested in the results of the experiment rather than the whole world ending scenario, considering there isn't even enough mass/energy on earth to create one of these micro black holes.

But I was more exploring the issue of is it right, given there is a risk of actually destroying the world.

Anyway, if the world did end, I would be off the hook for exams!

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2924802

[quote]So will the LHC Kill us all? Is it dangerous?[/quote]

No.

Even so don't think Nature can't turn on you

"Uh, it's probably not a problem, probably, but I'm showing a small discrepancy in... well, no, it's well within acceptable bounds again. Sustaining sequence...."

The whole idea of a Large Hard-on Collider destroying Earth sounds a bit far fetched.

What does it do?

It will give scientists a hard-on.

Use the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHC

Spike might have been joking, but i watched a program on it where a British scientist takes the camera crew around his part of the LHC and it is actually built, down to the the last bolt like a HL1 test-chamber look-a-like.
I'll try to find the program on BBC iPlayer and show you.

Is this program called "The Six Billion Dollar Experiment"?
I have it on my harddrive. If anyone is interested in this documentary ill upload it.

Spike's picture is funny because its true

I've been waiting to see what this thing can do. Very much looking forward to the results.

Shit, if it DOES destroy the world it's gonna be an awesome way to go.
Second only to dying in a blackhole. That's my dream.

In the best case scenario, it creates a blackhole and we die. Okay, maybe it's not the best, but still.

I want to meet the Xens

Yea, I have been a lot on this Hadron Collider and what it promises to do for science. It is just mind boggling on the type of "cosmic questions" this experiment could answer, we all should be feeling lucky that this is happening in our life's time. Of course, there's always the potential for disaster, which in this case, the world gets sucked in from the inside by a man made black hole, but then again, this is what some people who fear the unknown are saying. Well, I guess we will just have to see what happens......

Part of the Large Hadron Collider's particle pathway in a tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland:

Not surprisingly a lot of people have been going completely batshit over this, claiming it will create a black hole and destroy the earth. As far as I'm concerned nothing bad will happen, and even if it did, who cares?

Stfu and eat some icecream instead.

I am wearing a HEV suit right now.

Ten bucks says the only scientist who makes it out alive is the one that played Half-Life.

I've seen Gman in one of the LHC pics.

I honestly can't see the point in that thing. It's just a really expensive and possibly apocalyptic way of gaining useless knowledge. I say fuck facts and hails ideas!

A theory is fun because it can be wild. Facts are always disapointing.

And still, if it actualy works and they get some random bits of information, that will only lead to new theories and no real answers.

Useless sience is useless.

Ignorance is bliss

This really reminds me of HL1.

Perhaps someone can make a map that's inspired by this photo.

The HEV suit...

They don't actually smash anything until the 21st of October I heard. This thread's a tad early.

i read a science fiction story about a boy who bought a 'make your own sun' kit. His sun grew as he fed materials to it inside a special glass chamber. Then it became a strange oval shape and stopped growing, so he tried to feed it more things like bricks and metal. It didn't change, then one day it began to shink and then it imploded and became a 'letterbox' black hole. it then crushed the chamber and grew to consume the entire galaxy. so i think if a boy can destroy the earth, can scientists do any different???

Nice one, Blitzkrieg. Now, for you posting that picture, aren't you a bit afraid that Valve executives might send a hit man after you for blowing their secrete agent's cover?

Urghhhh Gordon is ugly

BTW, I'm still alive

Doesnt a blackhole need a certain minimum amount of mass to have any chance of life? i Doubt there's enough mass/matter on earth for it to be able to exist.

This machine could unravel new parts of the mystery of life and might help us knowing were we came from. Lets hope they find something smaller then quarks!

Doesnt a blackhole need a certain minimum amount of mass to have any chance of life?

Yes, 4 times sun's mass.

LOL

HL Scientist who thought he knew what was going on: "We've assured the administrator that nothing will go wrong..."

I don't think stories like this should be featured in mainstream media until they've already happened. All it takes is a handful of uneducated twats misquoting "black hole" and suddenly everybody seems to think it's the end of the world. I'd rather trust thousands upon thousands of the worlds most highly decorated physicists than a few people who are totally out of their field incorrectly estimating the danger of something going wrong and filing lawsuits.

Personally, I'm really excited about the whole project and I can't wait until they're ready to start producing collisions. Even if the skeptics and paranoid lunatics are correct and the world does get eaten up by a black hole, on the plus side, at least we'll all die, and as the majority of the earth's population is a waste of flesh, it'll be good for the universe in the long term.

What some of these doomsday-obsessed idiots who seem to think the world is going to end today forget is that not only are they not even producing any collisions today, they're not even firing a single beam at FULL POWER. All they did today was power up a single beam at low power and try firing it around the whole circuit. I've heard they're going to test the other beam too, not at full power and not colliding with the other one, but merely to make sure it's aligned correctly.

But besides that, even if they were producing collisions today and a OMG LOL SCARY BLACK HOLE LOL did form, become stable and find matter to sustain itself with (the chances of that happening are probably as low as those of a black hole forming to begin with), it wouldn't instantly gobble the whole planet up within a day.

I am no physicist m0p, but as for not instantly gobbling up the planet in a day... I think you could incredibly wrong, considering light cannot escape a black hole, it could consume the earth in an unimaginably short time.

Yes physicist do say there is actually no real risk, considering the types of rays they are creating from the collisions, are hitting the earth constantly.

also, my bad, you are right, they won't be doing any collisions until October, but they successfully circulated a beam today!just something interesting lol

I've heard that we have created micro black holes before, and that they decay faster than a millisecond efter being created.
If that's true then they really don't pose a threat to mankind.

There are however other theories of what might happen if something would go wrong. Can't remember them tho, but the chances are, as said earlier, very small. And even if something does go wrong it will happen so fast we won't notice it anyways.
lololol we're all gonna die

I'm really looking forward to seeing the progress of the LHC projects.
Imagen if they'd prove the theory of everything! Shit awesome.

Edit: Oh and m0p is right.

hey posting from french border here
sorry guys

the back hole is out of control

talk to your loved ones

before its to olate

I hope they have a policy that states if you see a mysterious man with a briefcase wandering around, STOP EVERYTHING!!

gman is a terrorist, theres a bomb in his briefcase.

You know, I was wondering what would happen if somebody were to be inside the Large Hadron Collider while operational. So I came up with this not so plausible theory:

Man gets bombarded by atomic lightning:Man then starts to get de-molecule-rise:Man is on it's way to become one with the universe:But hold on, man apparently has turned in to some kind of freaky blue thing with god like powers:Well, at least it sounds better than a micro black hole eating up Earth.

as the majority of the earth's population is a waste of flesh

There's no waste . Learn the conservation theory .

There will be no black hole . You need a huge star to do that .

In our solar sistem that's impossible , because the star is medium size . 5 billion ( i don't know if this is correct , but I think 1 billion = 1000 million in english ... in romanian is "miliard' ) years in the future , it will transform in a white dwarf , and we will die because of the low temperature .

[EDIT] Oh , I forgot to say . You need lots of mass to create a black hole . A black hole is basically a thing that remained from a star , but it generates a lot of gravity .

it will transform in a white dwarf , and we will die because of the low temperature .

Well by then, faster than light warp drives would have been invented and man would be spread out among the stars, but only if the warp drive thing happens.

The LHC is actually a very advanced computer.
Ever heard of Skynet?

The plasma motor was invented recently , so I think in the future the human being will be able to travel and explore freely in our galaxy .

But the LHC will stop it, using cybernetic dwarves. Haven't you learned anything yet?

travel and explore freely in our galaxy

Lol, nothing can travel faster than light, and if matter did, it would create a black-hole, that's what Einstein said. You can't "travel" through the space with megarockets or something like that. But there's a possibility of doing it with worm holes, which I doubt humans will discover in 1000 years

wtf spike I didn't say "travel and explore freely in our galaxy at speed of light"

And if you weren't attentive , I said "in our galaxy" because we won't be able to travel 100.000 light years lol .....

Actually, the plasma motor isnt really new, we only recently found a good use for it.

I' ve been reading up on Einstein's relativity theory, fascinating book i must say.

Hey, did you all know that the LHC originally was to be located in Texas? They actually started building it about 15 years or so, but never got passed the giant ring shaped hole they did under ground. Even to this day, that huge 4 Billion dollar underground hole is still there doing nothing, which by the way, if the LHC would have been built in Texas like it was supposed to, it would have been about 3 times bigger than the one now in Switzerland making history. Let this serve as a monument to the failure and interference of the Congress and it's politics that drove away this big scientific project. Read more here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5992574.html

wtf spike I didn't say "travel and explore freely in our galaxy at speed of light"

And if you weren't attentive , I said "in our galaxy" because we won't be able to travel 100.000 light years lol .....

Oh yeah, and at which speed do you want to travel our galaxy? 120 km/h? LOL

im scared

Actually, the plasma motor isnt really new,

We have plasma mortars? im late

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(Quote from the failed texas one linky thingy)

After spending $2 billion on the effort, Congress pulled the plug in 1993

Hey wait a minute, 1993? Er, what year did they make hl1 in? i dont suppose thats where they got the idea from? i meen it all matches up, Scientists, big lab thingy, very expensive technology, Texas...