LHC is turned on

[Legio]

Today they startrd the LHC program. They'll accelerate the particules to light speed then will make them collide. First collisions in 6 months.

[MOlivo]

For some reason this whole plan strikes me as a bad idea...

[MOlivo]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc.collider/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Article about it.

[Legio]

For some reason this whole plan strikes me as a bad idea...

They said that other tests like that in the past led to ... "internet". Who knows. That thing cost 4 billion euros!!!

[Mighty Hd]

What's the point of this thing?

[Legio]

What's the point of this thing?

The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator designed to simulate conditions of the Big Bang that created the physical Universe.

[NonConformist]

For some reason this whole plan strikes me as a bad idea...


+1

I have long thought that scientistst would sooner or later push beyond common sense, either a super virus or zombies or something that could tear the fabric of space and time, AI etc

I may live to see it after all!

[yugoshooter]

IMO they are developing a new weapon.

[hitech_hick]

+1

I have long thought that scientistst would sooner or later push beyond common sense, either a super virus or zombies or something that could tear the fabric of space and time, AI etc

I may live to see it after all!

Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

I think we've already seen this movie...


hick

[ak474u]

They NEED to make that thing generate electricity with smashed atoms, the one at Fermi Lab made enuff energy per collision to power the entire earth for 1 second... We need to make electricity more than we need to make tiny black holes... I am all for science, but c'mon, who cares really?

[BobS]

It is pure science-knowledge and technology cannot advance without research to discover the principles behind the "why".

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

Best regards,

Bob

[yugoshooter]

Like in NYC when the first mechanical snow throwers came out. The snow shovelers of the time would through steel and other objects in the street to break the machines.

[NECROMONGER]

The paint on soda cans is dried using partical accelerators (MUCH smaller and cheaper ones) so a practical use has already come, we have tooth past in a tube because of the space program, give it time and something useful will come and the news media will never tell you what new thing it was. So the collider will never get the credit.

[Idaho Corsair]

The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator designed to simulate conditions of the Big Bang that created the physical Universe.
Ya know, I get a real kick out of this. :rofl:
Even if you could simulate the "big bang"... they're forgetting it took a massive machine, hundreds of minds and billions of euros to accomplish it. LOL! Anybody else see the irony of using technology, machines, many brains, and tons of money to re-create what supposedly happened by CHANCE?!!???!!!! :bang:

[Lunicy]

Creates little black holes? Jesus Christ!! does anyone see the end of the universe coming??
I'm all for technology but dammit, watch an episode of star-trek, or futurama.

[Christian for Israel]

hmm...

i wonder, what do you think a microscopic black hole, packed into the hollow point of a bullet and fired into a bad guy, would do?

[SHNIPE]

hmm...

i wonder, what do you think a microscopic black hole, packed into the hollow point of a bullet and fired into a bad guy, would do?

eat the bullet as the bullet tried to push past it

seriously guys. the amount of energy this thing could ever en conceivably produce from any reaction is far less than the other goings on in the universe. If something bad could come of it... it would have already happened somewhere else for us to know. There are black holes with accretion discs that eject MASSIVE jets of matter and they dont create further black holes as they do so.

Its protons smashing into protons. theres hardly enough mass available to create dense enough matter to be a black hole. Read up, learn, deny ignorance and the media.

[chicom]

I'm still here.

No harm no foul.

[ak474u]

i think i heard somewhere I think it was in sky and telescope magazine (my dad worked for nasa during the original space race and is fascinated by space) that the matter in a black hole is so heavy that a teaspoon of it would weigh as much as manhattan island, or some unimaginable weight.

Did someone just insert a futurama reference into a scientific discussion? LOL

[SHNIPE]

i think i heard somewhere I think it was in sky and telescope magazine (my dad worked for nasa during the original space race and is fascinated by space) that the matter in a black hole is so heavy that a teaspoon of it would weigh as much as manhattan island, or some unimaginable weight.

Did someone just insert a futurama reference into a scientific discussion? LOL

NIBBLER!! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbler_(Futurama)) haha A bit off on the weight comparison than reality but its close :D

[Enthusiast]

Evidently a 30 ton transformer is hard to sweep under the rug...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jb-KYaSJaMqYK4MtY2C2FmcmOl2QD939CCSG0
(http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jb-KYaSJaMqYK4MtY2C2FmcmOl2QD939CCSG0)

The thing has been broken since they fired it up the first time. Also there is a second failure, here...
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/919/2
... What concerns me now is how safe this thing is by design.
-Enthusiast