LHC Created 15 years ago2008-09-09 08:43:28 UTC by kraken kraken

Created 15 years ago2008-09-09 08:43:28 UTC by kraken kraken

Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 08:43:28 UTC Post #255067
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.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 08:48:48 UTC Post #255068
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.
Strider StriderTuned to a dead channel.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 09:19:26 UTC Post #255070
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!
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 09:54:02 UTC Post #255071
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 :D
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 09:59:52 UTC Post #255072
"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...."
ChickenFist ChickenFist<Witty Title>
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 10:19:09 UTC Post #255073
The whole idea of a Large Hard-on Collider destroying Earth sounds a bit far fetched.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 10:29:12 UTC Post #255074
What does it do?
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 10:51:04 UTC Post #255075
It will give scientists a hard-on.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 10:54:48 UTC Post #255076
What does it do?
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Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 11:16:15 UTC Post #255077
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 12:38:01 UTC Post #255078
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.
Archie ArchieGoodbye Moonmen
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 13:15:11 UTC Post #255081
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.
The Mad Carrot The Mad CarrotMad Carrot
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 13:26:22 UTC Post #255083
Spike's picture is funny because its true :P

I've been waiting to see what this thing can do. Very much looking forward to the results.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 15:56:43 UTC Post #255093
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.
Luke LukeLuke
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 16:10:55 UTC Post #255094
I want to meet the Xens :D
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 17:21:04 UTC Post #255097
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:
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Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 18:19:31 UTC Post #255098
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.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 18:21:07 UTC Post #255099
I am wearing a HEV suit right now.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 18:23:11 UTC Post #255100
Ten bucks says the only scientist who makes it out alive is the one that played Half-Life.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 18:27:05 UTC Post #255101
I've seen Gman in one of the LHC pics.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 18:41:57 UTC Post #255102
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.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 18:54:15 UTC Post #255103
Ignorance is bliss ;)
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 18:56:50 UTC Post #255104
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This really reminds me of HL1.

Perhaps someone can make a map that's inspired by this photo.
satchmo satchmo“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett”
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 19:00:25 UTC Post #255105
The HEV suit...
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satchmo satchmo“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett”
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 21:05:32 UTC Post #255106
They don't actually smash anything until the 21st of October I heard. This thread's a tad early.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 21:32:28 UTC Post #255107
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???
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 22:09:13 UTC Post #255108
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-09 22:23:35 UTC Post #255109
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?
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 01:14:09 UTC Post #255110
Urghhhh Gordon is ugly :(

BTW, I'm still alive
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 02:09:59 UTC Post #255111
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!
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 04:15:40 UTC Post #255112
Doesnt a blackhole need a certain minimum amount of mass to have any chance of life?
Yes, 4 times sun's mass.

LOL
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 05:36:31 UTC Post #255113
HL Scientist who thought he knew what was going on: "We've assured the administrator that nothing will go wrong..."
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 06:15:14 UTC Post #255114
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.
m0p m0pIllogical.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 10:33:19 UTC Post #255119
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!
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just something interesting lol
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 10:41:47 UTC Post #255120
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.
Madcow MadcowSpy zappin my udder
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 12:07:13 UTC Post #255121
hey posting from french border here
sorry guys

the back hole is out of control

talk to your loved ones

before its to olate
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 12:46:55 UTC Post #255122
I hope they have a policy that states if you see a mysterious man with a briefcase wandering around, STOP EVERYTHING!!
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 13:55:29 UTC Post #255123
gman is a terrorist, theres a bomb in his briefcase.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 14:51:53 UTC Post #255124
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:
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Man then starts to get de-molecule-rise:
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Man is on it's way to become one with the universe:
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But hold on, man apparently has turned in to some kind of freaky blue thing with god like powers:
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Well, at least it sounds better than a micro black hole eating up Earth.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 15:14:57 UTC Post #255125
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 .
Striker StrikerI forgot to check the oil pressure
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 15:16:58 UTC Post #255126
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.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 15:58:05 UTC Post #255127
The LHC is actually a very advanced computer.
Ever heard of Skynet?
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 15:59:04 UTC Post #255128
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 .
Striker StrikerI forgot to check the oil pressure
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 16:02:38 UTC Post #255129
But the LHC will stop it, using cybernetic dwarves. Haven't you learned anything yet?
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 16:23:31 UTC Post #255130
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
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 16:28:35 UTC Post #255131
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 .....
Striker StrikerI forgot to check the oil pressure
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 16:30:44 UTC Post #255132
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.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 16:32:37 UTC Post #255133
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
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 16:39:22 UTC Post #255134
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
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-10 16:48:05 UTC Post #255135
:o 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...
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