CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider

[uofom3]

Thank you FK

[Farbin Kaiber]

Here are the other sensor arrays/experiments;

ALICE

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/ALICE-en.html

ATLAS (readers digest from above)

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/ATLAS-en.html

CMS

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/CMS-en.html

TOTEM

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/TOTEM-en.html

From CERN main site.

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/WhyLHC-en.html

[Farbin Kaiber]

Great - now explain that for those that still thing an ATLAS is a fucking map.

ATLAS = http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/index.html

One of the two arrays for picking up the collisions and their products of collisions.

[s0urce]

the bottom image reminds me of the first mario bro's

Nintendo: The answer to the universe.

[kowalski]

the bottom image reminds me of the first mario bro's

[s0urce]

I have no fucking clue what this is, other than the results from todays test.

[uofom3]

Looks like the arrays, maybe ATLAS?


Then I full screened, and saw the text on the image, I guess I was right.

Great - now explain that for those that still thing an ATLAS is a fucking map.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Looks like the arrays, maybe ATLAS?


Then I full screened, and saw the text on the image, I guess I was right.

[uofom3]

pretty colors (wtf does that picture mean)

[s0urce]

[eric (^__^)]

no he was thinking in BSW (british standard weeks)

they're a bit longer. I think the conversion is 1w/1.46bsw

[s0urce]

"Renowned British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has bet 100 dollars (70 euros) that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science, he said Tuesday."

Yea, I'd bet on his side as well, seeing as they're not even colliding particles this week. LULZ

[Farbin Kaiber]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080909150154.yzfml9cn&show_article=1

Hawking is betting on it...













Not being a huge deal. And, Higgs not being found.

[kronus]

If any of you think this is going to end the world, I hate you and I want all your balls to die.

With that said, this should be awesome. Lots of fresh data is always a good thing.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Ice-9 is a fictional chemical compound, and in a Kurt Vonnegut novel Cat's Cradle), the concept of ice-9 was a new type of ice crystal, that when it came into contact with regular water, it converted/froze every water molecule to be an ice-9 molecule. Then the WHOLE world was frozen over and everyone died, the end.

So, if anti-matter particles came into contact with their matter counterparts, they would create a huge explosion (see: Big Bang) due to the two things, (one a -, and one a +) balancing out their charges, effectively vaporizing them into nothing and the result of the interaction is the huge boom.

I'll find a better explanation of ice-9 as a concept to use for understanding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-9