CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider

[Miasma]

Geneva, 7 August 2008. CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN’s new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion.

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2008/PR06.08E.html

Is the world gonna end?

Discuss.

[Mtriple]

[eric (^__^)]

never cross the streams

[Ray Smoodiver]

I'm putting everything on black on the 9th of September

[SamE30e]

What is this?

Like the purpose...?

Edit: What the hell does this thing do?

[SamE30e]

Some Higgs Boson shit? So like 10billion dollars to discover a missing link in physics?

[Tavern Gnome]

I don't know why I'm so excited about that thing. I can't wait to see what things come of it. Hopefully it doesn't eat the universe!

[SamE30e]

Well from my understanding is that it could create mini black holes.

"Concerns have been raised regarding the safety of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the grounds that high-energy particle collisions performed in the LHC might produce dangerous phenomena, including micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles."

I still don't get what it does, something about Higgs Bosson Physics element.

[Tavern Gnome]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJ6PMfnz2E

Watch this. 3 parts.

[devonjordan]

They are going to run atoms into eachother at super high speeds and see what happens. They are trying to see that the Higgs Bosson exists, which I believe is some particle of physics theory.

Should be interesting...

[SamE30e]

They are going to run atoms into eachother at super high speeds and see what happens. They are trying to see that the Higgs Bosson exists, which I believe is some particle of physics theory.

Should be interesting...

That's what I thought.

[Sean5294]

I'm putting everything on black on the 9th of September

Remember, Always bet on Black!

[Huff]

What is this?

It's the worlds most powerful and sensitive particle accelerator.

Like the purpose...?

Its purpose is to smash atomic particles together and capture the results. It is sensitive enough to detect a possible graviton (proving that string theory might be right in being the "theory of everything"), it can also possible prove/disprove what dark matter might be.. [/quote]

Edit: What the hell does this thing do?

It will not, or can not produce a black hole. I defiantly can not produce a fusion re-action or fission explosion.. We're talking about 2 -3 atomic particles at a time here people...

The world of physics on both the astrophysics and quantum mechanics sides are about to get really, really, really freaking cool!! This machine will be able to possibly unlock the trade secrets of the universe.. I can't wait!

[Sean5294]

:p

[SamE30e]

It will not, or can not produce a black hole. I defiantly can not produce a fusion re-action or fission explosion.. We're talking about 2 -3 atomic particles at a time here people...

Do you have one of these in your backyard?

No? THEN IT CAN MAKE A BLACK FUCKIN' HOLE!

Point is, anything is possible.