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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: one-eyed on September 08, 2008, 06:09:07 AM
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Will the Big Bang test end the world on Wednesday?
7 Sep, 2008, 1619 hrs IST, IANS
LONDON: If critics are to be believed, the end of the universe will begin on coming Wednesday when a Welsh miner's son launches the world's biggest scientific experiment to know how the universe was born.
The well-known Welshman physicist, Lyn Evans, dubbed Evans the Atom, will this week switch on a giant particle accelerator designed to unlock the secrets of the Big Bang.
On Wednesday, Evans will fire up the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile-long doughnut-shaped tunnel that will smash sub-atomic particles together at nearly the speed of light.
Built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the collider lies beneath the French-Swiss border, near the institution's headquarters in Geneva, at depths ranging from 170 feet to 600 feet.
The aim of the 4.4 bn-pound (over $7.7 bn) experiment is to recreate the conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang - the birth of the universe - and provide vital clues to the building blocks of life.
It will track the spray of particles thrown out by collisions in a search for the elusive Higgs Boson, a theoretical entity that supposedly lends weight, or mass, to the elementary particles. So important is this mysterious substance that it has been called the "God Particle".
Scientists also hope to shed some light on the invisible material that exists between particles - dubbed "dark matter" as no one knows what it really is - which make up most of the universe.
But a handful of scientists believe that the experiment could create a shower of unstable black holes that could "eat" the planet from within, and they are launching last-ditch efforts to halt it in the courts.
One of them, Otto Rossler, a retired German chemist, said he feared the experiment may create a devastating quasar - a mass of energy fuelled by black holes - inside the earth. Jets emanating from it would grow and catastrophes such as earthquakes and tsunamis would occur at the points they emerged from the earth.
"The weather will change completely, wiping out life, and very soon the whole planet will be eaten in a magnificent scenario - if you could watch it from the moon. A Biblical Armageddon. Even cloud and fire will form, as it says in the Bible."
He said that attempts were still being made in the European Court of Human Rights to halt the experiment on the grounds that it violated the right to life. The court has, however, already rejected calls for a temporary delay in the project.
Walter Wagner, an American scientist who has been warning about the dangers of particle accelerators for 20 years, is awaiting a ruling on a lawsuit he filed a fortnight ago in his home state of Hawaii.
Evans, however, is dismissive of the "doom-mongers".
"There are thousands of scientists around the world who have been preparing this machine and they know what they are talking about, unlike these guys," he is quoted as saying in a national newspaper.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET_Cetera/Will_the_Big_Bang_test_end_the_world_on_Wednesday/articleshow/3455435.cms
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Bit scary hey
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you would be peeed off if you got 7 numbers in tuesdays lotto :rollin
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LOL talk about science fiction :rollin.
There's a bit of an explanation here why it won't happen:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,570487,00.html
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Probably happen around midnight AEST.
With any luck I'll be doing my own Big Bang experiment around that time. I won't bother tabling a report.
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LMAO
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Large Hadron Collider team sent death threats
Staff writers
September 09, 2008 01:09pm
SCIENTISTS about to conduct one of the biggest experiments ever have received death threats amid fears they could destroy the world.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a giant particle accelerator built by European science organisation CERN, will start its atom-smashing activities tomorrow in an experiment it is hoped will uncover some of the secrets of the Big Bang.
Professor Brian Cox of Manchester University told the British Telegraph newspaper that LHC scientists had been receiving threatening emails and phone calls demanding that the experiment be halted.
But Prof Cox, ex-keyboardist for 1990s pop group D:REAM, dismissed the hysteria in rock-star style.
"Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a t---," he said.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24318570-24331,00.html
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CERN was where the internet began out of interest.
This is what the Particle Accelerator looks like and how big it is.....
(http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6241747,00.jpg)
(http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/io9/2008/08/LHCabove.jpg)
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Probably happen around midnight AEST.
With any luck I'll be doing my own Big Bang experiment around that time. I won't bother tabling a report.
lol
There's always Superfriends or the Justice League to save us. ;D
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Probably happen around midnight AEST.
With any luck I'll be doing my own Big Bang experiment around that time. I won't bother tabling a report.
lol
There's always Superfriends or the Justice League to save us. ;D
Or maybe action league now
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:0OI7x1U17thRyM:http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g264/Rasengan_adept/ALN.jpg)
The Flesh — "He's super strong and super naked!"
Thundergirl — "She flies—like thunder!"
Stinky Diver — "A former navy commando with an attitude as bad as his odor!"
Meltman — "With the power to...melt!"
Will save us :rollin
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Only 20 minutes to go to the end of the world ;D.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Black_hole_ver1.jpg)
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They just said on the radio it was at 6.30pm, MT
The end of the world would be while A Current Affair was on
And going on the crap on there maybe it's a good thing :thumbsup
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Making a hamburger with the lot just in case lol
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Making a hamburger with the lot just in case lol
Was switched on 50 minutes ago - so off for a run Moi ;D
Then again we could allready be in another dimension - who knows ???
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Looks like they stuffed it up. They could maybe run trains through the tunnel.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-iN-28VxLQ4/SMbJaVjbUaI/AAAAAAAACsc/OzubJu36L88/s400/coolider)
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lmao@nothing happening as a result of the biggest,most expensive experiment the world has known.
(http://whyfiles.org/236math/images/math_practice.jpg)
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They've only got the machine up and going at the moment. The cranking it up to maximum and smashing part is still to come.
Love the t-shirt FF :rollin
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Sheer comedy in some of the public responses in the Herald-Sun about this :rollin.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/comments/0,22023,24318570-24331,00.html
People seriously asking for survival tips for when they get sucked into the black hole or running around in a fit of panic :wallywink :rollin
You scientist are such idiots you could kill us all and you can be killed too why can't you do a different experiment that doesn't involve killing the world!!!! Its not funny stop this experiment now!!! There are little kids that haven't live a full life and there are some that are just born. This is a stupid experiment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Alan Pham 7:55pm September 09, 200
Are there any survival tips, incase something goes wrong? Suppose everyone and everything will be sucked into the Black Hole. Its pretty scary. Seriously, think about it!
Posted by: Sava of melbourne 2:45pm September 09
This is so irresponsible. How dare a handfull of scientist play God. Did they ever think, we are not suppose to know things. Now they have the whole world frightened cause they need to know something.
Posted by: mother of two of Melbourne 2:16pm September 09, 2008
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Here's a rap for our physics nerds among us ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6aU-wFSqt0
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Here's a rap for our physics nerds among us ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6aU-wFSqt0
Some people have too much time on their hands :wallywink
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Nothing pee's me off more than these doom and gloom merchants. They need to get a real job instead of playing pocket billards.
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The end of the world has been delayed by 2 months lol
LHC shut down for months
September 21, 2008
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) says its new particle collider will be out of commission for at least two months after having more damage than previously believed.
CRN spokesman James Gillies said experts have gone into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to inspect the damage.
The LHC operations ceased after an electrical fault forced it to stop just days after being launched to global fanfare this month.
The problem affected a cooling system for high-powered magnets designed to steer beams of particles around the LHC's 27-kilometre circular tunnel, Mr Gilles said.
Supercooled helium escaped because of the faulty connection between the two magnets, he said.
CERN would shut down the LHC to make the repairs and the section that was damaged would need to be warmed up to well above absolute zero, Associated Press has reported.
The LHC took nearly 20 years to complete and at six billion Swiss francs ($6.57 billion) is one of the costliest and most complex scientific experiments ever attempted.
It aims to resolve some of the greatest questions surrounding fundamental matter, such as how particles acquire mass and how they were forged in the "Big Bang" that created the Universe some 13.7 billion years ago.
The September 10 switch-on saw the testing of a clockwise beam, and then an anticlockwise beam.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24378565-5005961,00.html
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Supercooled helium escaped because of the faulty connection between the two magnets, he said.
They're all talking with high squeaky voices today ;D
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It must be a full moon or some people have watched Terminator one too many times lol.
Large Hadron Collider is 'being sabotaged from the future'
October 19, 2009 5:12PM
SCIENTISTS claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/large-hadron-collider-is-being-sabotaged-from-the-future/story-e6frf7jo-1225788421196