Moderator sanctioned "CERN: The Big Bang" thread.

[Limasol]

I hope they discover the unifying element. That would be useful.

Antiprops to BBC who can't get over the black holes idea. :-(

Aparently its being shut down in November until April because Geneva needs heating, when i heard that i lolled, it uses so much power its either use it or heat Geneva

 

[BardSeed]

I hope they discover the unifying element. That would be useful.

Antiprops to BBC who can't get over the black holes idea. :-(

Aparently its being shut down in November until April because Geneva needs heating, when i heard that i lolled, it uses so much power its either use it or heat Geneva

Do you have a source? I thought everything would be fine because it gets it's power from Switzerland and France.

 

[SmugFrog]

LHC is shut down until Spring.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26856525/

 

[SmugFrog]

There are also a new group of pictures (or maybe they're old ones) on a slideshow from MSNBC. The more I look at it, the more I think 'Half-Life'. I would love to tour that place... or even better, have a paintball match inside.

 

[titus_barca]

I wish that girl in India who committed suicide over this supposedly causing the end of the world had read this!
From the beginning I didn't think much of the ruckus... there isn't enough mass to create a self-sustaining back hole. I doubt there's enough mass in our solar system to create one.

 

[IAMEPSIL0N]

For the record I'm trying to be funny here.

I'm back from the looking glass. The LHC will not directly destroy the world but it will allow us to create the next step in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Sentience. I'm not predicting a robot uprising, we don't make humans slaves so why would we make sentient robots our slaves. But the addition of billions of sentient robots alongside human sentience will put us over the limit of questions and the laws of physics will warp and stop applying in larger and larger areas until the resulting distortions kill enough sentient life to allow stability to return.

Nobody ever thought of what would happen if we were able to increase the earths population and what effect that would have on the noosphere and us in general.

If something goes wrong I'm glad I have a crowbar handy and a whole pack of little bolts to throw at the distortions (see S.T.A.L.K.E.R.).

I'm voting we will end up with a portal that either leads us somewhere or brings something here.

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

Sorry to hijack the thread after it got serious and all, but I think this deserves a look. A while ago a bunch of people sent the scientists at the LHC a copy of Half-Life with a crowbar and head-crab fluffy toy as a joke. Nobody was sure if they would get it. Well...

Yes, that is the guy from the OP's original picture. Scientists are awesome

EDIT: Oops, wrong thread...

 

[SmugFrog]

That is awesome Strafe! Where did you find that picture?

 

[Aginor27]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/469806


Sort of on topic.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Well, if it does destroy the world, I really don't care as long as it happens slowly enough for me to see it on the news but fast enough to kill me quickly. And if it pays off as a scientific endeavor who knows what fancy new tech we might get out of it.