Finally people can stop screaming at the top of their lungs that this experiment can prove to be catastrophic ("unforeseen consequences" anyone?) and realise that it actually works and can prove useful. Pretty amazing thing they did with those Lead ions...
[QUOTE=General_Xing;25952388]I didn't say [b]it wouldn't work[/b], I said that it breaks down alot.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=General_Xing;25828079]It keeps failing, over and over. I will be convinced if anything actually happens.
It's a good idea, but [b]it doesn't work[/b].[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=The golden;25953775]Probably quite a lot. But then, they also probably have massive amounts of education.[/QUOTE]
Afaik they actually don't earn that much. Maybe the top scientists and engineers get payed a lot but that's probably it.
2 or 3 of my professors work part-time for CERN on the LHC project.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;25944379] Well of course there are the obvious reasons for it being impossible, but it would take around [B]314159 [/B]years for the particles to travel right around our galaxy at the speed of light. Just an interesting fact for the day.[/QUOTE]
Isn't that pretty much the first 6 numbers of pi without decimals?
This LHC thingy will blow up and leaves nothing but shreds of millions of euros
[QUOTE=Garik;25956477]This LHC thingy will blow up and leaves nothing but shreds of millions of euros[/QUOTE]
It's worth a try though, because if it works, it will profit billions.
Page two and you guys are already talking about religion and dicks.
On topic: this is rather awesome.
Small Big Bang.
:byodood:
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;25954810]The LHC facility is called CERN[/QUOTE]
There's a lot more to CERN than just a single particle accelerator, though. CERN has existed since 1954 and conducts research within several fields of science, high-energy physics and computer science being among the most prominent (the WWW was invented at CERN).
[QUOTE=Fatman55;25956634]Small Big Bang.
:byodood:[/QUOTE]
They made a bunch of Little Big Planets
[QUOTE=bravehat;25951125]He's an antitheist, don't lump atheists in with those asshats, it's like the westboro baptists being used to describe all of christianity.[/QUOTE]
Antitheist. I like that.
[QUOTE=kukiric;25956441]Isn't that pretty much the first 6 numbers of pi without decimals?[/QUOTE]
:tinfoil:
Although I very much approve the fact that it can create an amazing aspect for future fuel resources, billions have been spent on it where as it could've been spent on making the world a more viable place to live for every person.
In this day and age, its getting really ridiculous.
Holy shit, this is big.
that's what she said :smug:
[QUOTE=kukiric;25956441]Isn't that pretty much the first 6 numbers of pi without decimals?[/QUOTE]
Mind=Blown
Also this thread is giving me a Brainer.
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Today is the anniversary of Carl Sagan's birthday.
[QUOTE=Akayz;25958047]Although I very much approve the fact that it can create an amazing aspect for future fuel resources, billions have been spent on it where as it could've been spent on making the world a more viable place to live for every person.
In this day and age, its getting really ridiculous.[/QUOTE]
Seriously?
God only knows what this information could lead to. Knowing the deeper levels of how the laws of physics work could allow us to capitalize on that and enhance technology as a whole.
Also...
[IMG]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Kuchinawa212/Science.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;25943969]Well appart from the fact they managed to do this with lead ions which is pretty impressive (lead ain't light) They are also one step further towards finding the Higgs boson, and who knows what that will lead to[/QUOTE]
If the Higgs exists. If it doesn't, it could turn what we know upside down. That would be pretty cool.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM[/media]
Musical explanation of the LHC for you the people that want it
[QUOTE=SuperLoz;25956294][/QUOTE]
Yeah, I said it didn't at the time.
I don't get it.
[QUOTE=helpiminabox;25943766]Well, it's nice to know that we're all [b]still alive[/b].
Might want to fix your source link though.[/QUOTE]
GLADOS was trying to kill us all. Where's my cake?
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;25943969]Well appart from the fact they managed to do this with lead ions which is pretty impressive (lead ain't light) They are also one step further towards finding the Higgs boson, and who knows what that will [b]lead[/b] to[/QUOTE]
Tell me I'm not the only one that saw this awful pun
She blinded me with Science! :science:
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I love the fact that we get to see shit like this happen in our lifetimes. :)
[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;25945191]Awesome, that's pretty fucking cool. The religious kid in my class had a fight with my teacher about the big bang. He yelled at her and almost got her fired for not respecting religion. I'll kick his face in with this.[/QUOTE]
You do realize that god could've used the big bang as a tool to create the universe, right? Big bang doesn't prove that god doesn't exist.
[QUOTE=kukiric;25956441]Isn't that pretty much the first 6 numbers of pi without decimals?[/QUOTE]
Yep, considering the galaxy is estimated to be 100000 light years in diameter. I just worked out the circumference. Wasn't all that hard.
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[QUOTE=Saza;25960747]Tell me I'm not the only one that saw this awful pun[/QUOTE]
Didn't even notice it myself.
[QUOTE=MarioMan10CP;25961550]You do realize that god could've used the big bang as a tool to create the universe, right? Big bang doesn't prove that god doesn't exist.[/QUOTE]
"the big bang" is the term used for the initial expansion; it doesn't tell us anything about what happened beforehand, or if there even [B]was[/B] a "beforehand" (:ohdear:)
so yeah the idea of a creator isn't completely incompatible with the big bang, and it leads to interesting discussions about the anthropic principle
[QUOTE=aVoN;25955700]Why do people keep sticking with "it creates mini big-bangs" - That's false and has been invented by the media to sound more dramatic. Smashing the lead-ions is meant for producing e.g. a quark-gluon plasma, a state the universe was filled with quite shortly [b]after[/b] the big-bang.
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No, it's a state like it was after the big-bang. Media just read "Big-Bang" and therefore called the LHC "big-bang"-machine. Sadly, people believe everything they read in the newspaper or see at FoxNews.[/QUOTE]
Well I learned something today.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;25952784]protons are ions
on their own anyway
[/QUOTE]
A single proton is considered a cation or whatever?
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Man all those large hardons making big bangs all over place...
I dont know what they did, but it sounds fucking awesome
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