Kinda sad, a couple of years ago, that's all we'd talk about in year 10 science and then even moreso in year 11 physics, in fact, most of our lessons got derailed for a week or two by the class talking about it because our teachers had no idea the fuck he was on about.d3structor said:
Poll: Large Hadron Collider
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These people don't understand the power it requires to make a blackhole. A blackhole takes a star that's far FAR FAR FAR FAR larger than ours to form. Any black hole that would be created would be harmless because it wouldn't have the gravitational force to pull much of anything in and then dissipate (much like the one the chinese made that effected only microwaves).Abengoshis said:
Blackholes are impossible to make with our technology never the less without the mass of a dying super sized star.
You fool! Your classmates have you in a an extremely vulnerable position! Heck, even my 10th grade classmates knew about the thingamabob used to detect the Higg's boson.
MY take is that your peers are trying to dupe you into thinking they're a bunch of retarded twats and at the opportune moment they shall STRIKE!
Seriously, it happened to me except that the given situation had to do with the opposite sex. Anyway, we all know that the really smart ones appear to be stupid o first sight.
MY take is that your peers are trying to dupe you into thinking they're a bunch of retarded twats and at the opportune moment they shall STRIKE!
Seriously, it happened to me except that the given situation had to do with the opposite sex. Anyway, we all know that the really smart ones appear to be stupid o first sight.
All that comes to mind without specific questions isd3structor said:
1. Not going to destroy the world, at absolute worst has to potential to blow a 50 meter or so hole in the French countryside
2. Angels and Demons is *fiction* people
Also, about the black hole thing.
One way to describe a black hole is as a region of space in which the gravitational pull is so strong that light cannot escape it.
The most well known example of this is when a massive star collapses on itself. These black holes are kilometers across, have the gravitational pull of a very large star and would undeniably be dangerous on Earth.
However, you could get something that would technically qualify as a black hole by compressing a grain of sand down to some ridiculously small size that I can't be bothered to calculate. However, you would then have a black hole with the gravitational pull of a grain of sand that is so small the chances of it actually running into anything before it decays, or flies of into space, is minuscule. Hardly something likely to end the world.
Plus the whole idea of making micro black holes is just a theory at the moment anyway.
If you want to know what it is - all you need is to watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
So nerdy, I love it every time!!!
CMS and Atlas are two of a kind
So nerdy, I love it every time!!!
CMS and Atlas are two of a kind
Whats funny is that the Higgs Boson gets called the God Particle by relegious zealots, the irony is that the guy its named after (Higgs not God) is a massive atheist.
The LHC is partly in Swiss land and partly in France, and the worries from the media was that it would cause a devastating quantum singularity, this can only be a good thing, but if France gets turned into a singularity then thats still one too many of the cheese eating monkeys!.
Its ok guys, i'm French, i'm totally allowed to rip on my country men!.
The LHC is partly in Swiss land and partly in France, and the worries from the media was that it would cause a devastating quantum singularity, this can only be a good thing, but if France gets turned into a singularity then thats still one too many of the cheese eating monkeys!.
Its ok guys, i'm French, i'm totally allowed to rip on my country men!.
I didn't realize it had collided yet but as you said: American. All I hear on the news is why people in Italy aren't outraged at The Pope and, sports based garbage.
I notice we're all still alive though so, that's good! I don't see any rips in time or, singularities spilling out Dino-riding Nazi's so that too is good.
I notice we're all still alive though so, that's good! I don't see any rips in time or, singularities spilling out Dino-riding Nazi's so that too is good.
How many hours of paperwork and/or mathematics goes into one single firing of the LHC?chuketek said:
Has any damage been done yet (something that needed to be fixed before it could be used again)?
Is it intimidating to work with a large group of people who have PhDs while you are still working towards yours?
Are any of them hot? (Stupid question, but a fun one nonetheless.)
Have you found or discovered anything by accident yet? For instance, have you tried finding the Higgs Boson but instead found a quark somehow outside of a proton?
Have you guys considered putting something random and stupid inside, just for shits and giggles?
When will you actually try and find the Higgs Boson?
Wow really? I haven't been keeping up with all the collisions since they turned it on the first time and everyone thought the world would implode =P but I am well aware of what it is and its purpose.d3structor said:
I think I read in the papers the other day that physicists on CERN are predicting that we will have proven the existence of dark matter by the end of the year.
It's good to know that there are Escapists out there on the frontlines of science.chuketek said:
I know what it is and what it does, but the newspapers in europe where making articles about it for a good while.
Though I bet your classmates do not read those either.
Though I bet your classmates do not read those either.