Poll: Large Hadron Collider

[grimsprice]

More like Large Money Sink Collider.

Seriously, if they don't find the Higg's Boson like they intended from the start, then all they have is a giant particle accelerator.

Do you realize that America alone spends 10 times the cost of the LHC on cigarettes. Yearly.

NASA receives less money annually than Americans spend on lip balm.

If the Coca Cola company stopped spending money on advertising they could build a Large Hadron Collider once every 2 years. (and lets be honest, Coca Cola does not need advertising)

The "carbon credit" bullshit planet wide moves enough money to build the international space station. annually.

The U.S. spent enough money on the B-2 "Spirit" Bomber, from inception to production, to fund NASA for 8 years.

Each Virginia class nuclear attack submarine (which serve precisely 0 purpose) is over 3 times the cost of both the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. Bots, rockets, launch, and ground crew for the entire duration of the mission.

The Gross Domestic Product of Luxembourg is enough to fund every space agency on the entire planet.

OPEC makes enough money to launch the space shuttle 3 times a day.... for a whole year.

Science is cheap compared to keeping 7 billion people alive, happy, and protected... from themselves.

 

[Mumorpuger]

I know what it is, because I like finding out the reasons that "ZOMG END OF THE WORLD soon!!!11!1!" theories are crocks and it was part of my research.

 

[Altorin]

Not only do I know what it is (not enough to write a paper on it, mind you) but I'm still hoping something will go awry and it'll open up persistent black holes that'll run the risk of sucking Earth into it.

you can hope for a unicorn and have about the same chance of getting it. These collisions happen all the time in space.. but they're quantum, so you can't detect them without throwing off the readings.

If you ever want to wonder just how fucked up the quantum world is, read anything by Brian Greene (Fabric of the Cosmos or The Elegant Universe).

It's pretty amazing.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

If you were learning about it in highschool, don't expect many people to know what it is. They're probably very-well versed in the Twilight series, though.

 

[Biosophilogical]

It's that thing that accelerates particles and slams them together right? Which, by the way, makes it sound far more useless than it actua ... oh yeah, nevermind, it rams particles together at high speed to make stuff happen, admittedly, I find it hilarious that in all our knowledge, we reverted back to the 'banging two rocks together' thing, just on a smaller scale.

 

[Altorin]

your physics class didn't know what the LHC is?

Oh well, they're just kids, but I assure you, if they're at all interested in Physics for more then just needing to take a science in school they should know

a machine than rams particles at very high speeds buried under CERN in belgium (its not but i for the life of me cant remember) to attempt to create a black hole and end the world as we know it

CERN isn't a place, it's a company (or organization) It's a non-english acronym, but in english it is the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

the LHC is buried under Geneva Switzerland actually.

I know CERN is not a place but their head quater is. Other than that thanks!
it's an acronym for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire

yes, but it's not actually called that anymore, but it's still CERN.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

It's that thing that accelerates particles and slams them together right? Which, by the way, makes it sound far more useless than it actua ... oh yeah, nevermind, it rams particles together at high speed to make stuff happen, admittedly, I find it hilarious that in all our knowledge, we reverted back to the 'banging two rocks together' thing, just on a smaller scale.

Yes, but instead of sparks and flint, we get theoretical sub particles! Isn't that fun?

 

[Enou]

Nope i have no what you are talking about because i don't pay attention to most things that don't directly affect me. Call me ignorant if you must but that's the way i am

But its gonna blow up the whole world and collapse the universe, of course it affects you!

Its also gonna cure cancer.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

I was writing my research paper on the Large Hadron collider for my English composition class and no one knew what it was. My physics and calculus classes didn't fare much better I thought this was pretty big news.

Do I understand what the large Hadron Collider is? After a fashion. I know they're smashing particles together real fast and they're hoping to discover really tiny particles after they go boom.

I think I'm on par with Simple English Wikipedia here. I've heard of the LHC, I know they're doing science, and I know there are bosons involved.

Is this above the understanding of your peers?

 

[WayOutThere]

no

NO

NO!

I can't take this anymore!

delay, delay, DELAY

Will they find the higgs boson, sparticles? I need to know NOW

Argg!!!!

*starts hyperventilating*

Yes, I've heard of it.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

I was writing my research paper on the Large Hadron collider for my English composition class and no one knew what it was. My physics and calculus classes didn't fare much better I thought this was pretty big news.

Do I understand what the large Hadron Collider is? After a fashion. I know they're smashing particles together real fast and they're hoping to discover really tiny particles after they go boom.

I think I'm on par with Simple English Wikipedia here. I've heard of the LHC, I know they're doing science, and I know there are bosons involved.

Is this above the understanding of your peers?

Be careful, they're sciencing over there! If you get to close, they may science you up something fierce!

 

[d3structor]

Is this above the understanding of your peers?

I was met with blank stares and a few scattered "wut" when I said out loud that I wanted to do my research paper on the Large Hadron Collider followed by the professor asking "waht is that"

so yeah...

 

[conchshellthegeek7]

The largest supercollider ever created, possibly the doom of mankind and the universe.

Except they already turned it on, and we're fine.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Is this above the understanding of your peers?

I was met with blank stares and a few scattered "wut" when I said out loud that I wanted to do my research paper on the Large Hadron Collider followed by the professor asking "waht is that"

so yeah...

What college is this?

 

[Altorin]

I was writing my research paper on the Large Hadron collider for my English composition class and no one knew what it was. My physics and calculus classes didn't fare much better I thought this was pretty big news.

Do I understand what the large Hadron Collider is? After a fashion. I know they're smashing particles together real fast, and they're hoping to discover really tiny particles after they go boom.

I think I'm on par with Simple English Wikipedia, here. I've heard of the LHC, I know they're doing science, and I know there are bosons involved.

Is this above the understanding of your peers?

they're hoping to discover something.. but really, the LHC just gives them the ability to know exactly where a particle is and also know it's velocity, so that they can study what happens when it hits things.

Particles are crashing into eachother all the time in the natural world, but there are only certain things you can study about subatomic particles in the natural world. You can't know where a particle is and how fast it's going for instance. If you try and measure its speed, it's already moved to a completely different place.. and if you try and measure where a particle is, you can't tell how fast it was moving before or after you detected it.

also, in nature, subatomic particles can be ANYWHERE until you detect them. and it isn't just that they CAN be anywhere, it's that they basically ARE everywhere (or everywhere within a certain area.. a photon of light from the sun for instance is most likely within a few thousand AU's of the sun.. the odds of finding a single photon out in the dead of empty space is pretty slim, but still, not impossible)

Only when you find a specific particle does its probability of appearing anywhere else drop to 0. Until then, it truly is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

 

[d3structor]

Is this above the understanding of your peers?

I was met with blank stares and a few scattered "wut" when I said out loud that I wanted to do my research paper on the Large Hadron Collider followed by the professor asking "waht is that"

so yeah...

What college is this?

Palm Beach State in Florida

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Be careful, they're sciencing over there! If you get to close, they may science you up something fierce!

Heh, that pretty much sums up every LHC doomsday scenario.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Be careful, they're sciencing over there! If you get to close, they may science you up something fierce!

Heh, that pretty much sums up every LHC doomsday scenario.

Those depraved men and their dark science, they will doom us all. They're consorting with the devil for their science powers. If we don't stop them soon, the world will fall to science!