CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider

**kronus** · 09-10-2008, 09:17 AM

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** · 09-10-2008, 10:41 AM

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Hawking is betting on it...

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

**s0urce** · 09-10-2008, 10:50 AM

"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

**eric (^__^)** · 09-10-2008, 11:21 AM

no he was thinking in BSW (british standard weeks)

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

**s0urce** · 09-10-2008, 03:58 PM

**uofom3** · 09-10-2008, 04:05 PM

Originally posted by s0urce

pretty colors (wtf does that picture mean)

**Farbin Kaiber** · 09-10-2008, 04:38 PM

Looks like the arrays, maybe ATLAS?

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

**uofom3** · 09-10-2008, 05:41 PM

Originally posted by Farbin Kaiber

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.

**s0urce** · 09-10-2008, 07:02 PM

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

**kowalski** · 09-10-2008, 07:37 PM

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

**s0urce** · 09-10-2008, 07:39 PM

Originally posted by kowalski

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

Nintendo: The answer to the universe.

**Farbin Kaiber** · 09-10-2008, 08:01 PM

Originally posted by uofom3

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.

**Farbin Kaiber** · 09-10-2008, 08:06 PM

Here are the other sensor arrays/experiments;

ALICE

ALICE

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