Large Hadron Collider

bikezappa
bikezappa Posts: 2,463
edited September 2008 in The Clubhouse
Most people may not be know that this new collider will be operational in a few days. A lawyer/safety person is trying to stop its start up with a law suit because he fears the world will end. I would be concerned if the person had any scientific background.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24556999/?GT1=43001

Is a good article that explains why do this and what will the long term results.
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  • ShinAce
    ShinAce Posts: 1,194
    edited September 2008
    He's crazy. It's not the first lawsuit and won't be the last.

    Believe me, there are more powerful particle interactions going on in the atmosphere than we will ever produce. Somehow, through billions of years of this, we're still here.

    We ain't going nowhere.

    p.s. I just realized the LHC is gonna be smashing leptons and not hadrons. Hadrons will be later.
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  • tugboat
    tugboat Posts: 393
    edited September 2008
    Well if something does happen, we won't have to worry about global warming anymore! Maybe it'll open up a portal to another dimension for the polar bears. One to a world that's all ice, all the time. One with seals everywhere you look. :)
    Driver carries only 20 dollars in ammunition

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,704
    edited September 2008
    from a risk management standpoint: if complete annihilation of the Earth and/or all of space-time results... well, there's really no mess to clean up; so I say "stay the course".
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2008
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    from a risk management standpoint: if complete annihilation of the Earth and/or all of space-time results... well, there's really no mess to clean up; so I say "stay the course".


    Ding ding! For those of you who believe in a higher power, make sure your affairs are in order, just in case ;)
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited September 2008
    Umm, forget the atmosphere and all the chicken littles. This is not the first particle accelerator humanity has built nor is it the last. It just happens to be the largest to date.

    Personally, I can't wait to see what happens!
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited September 2008
    Black hole here we come!
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited September 2008
    Will I miss my baseball game tomorrow?
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited September 2008
    You all should read a short story called "The Hole Man" by Larry Niven

    It's a story about a quntum sigularity otherwise known as a "Black Hole"

    I have a text copy of it somewhere so if you are interested and can't find it easily, PM me and I'll send you a copy.
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited September 2008
    Demiurge wrote: »
    Will I miss my baseball game tomorrow?

    Is it a night or day game?
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited September 2008
    Jstas wrote: »
    You all should read a short story called "The Hole Man" by Larry Niven

    It's a story about a quntum sigularity otherwise known as a "Black Hole"

    I have a text copy of it somewhere so if you are interested and can't find it easily, PM me and I'll send you a copy.

    Larry Niven was great. Does he still have it?
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited September 2008
    Have what?
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited September 2008
    Jstas wrote: »
    Have what?

    The ability to write interesting and great SF.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited September 2008
    Oh, I have no idea. I haven't read any newer stuff. Only older stuff I borrowed from a friend.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited September 2008
    The largest black hole they've seen is right down the street-relatively speaking.
    As long as it's quick & painless, I'm cool with it.
    BUT, if it's slow & torturous, as in the song 'Cygnus X-1', then that'll SUCK ****!
    And I don't mean cute, petite, Jessica Alba ****, I mean, big, hairy, unwashed, Rosie O'Donnell ****!
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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