Happy Hadron day, everyone.

Assuming it wasn't secretly tested a fortnight ago (just so they wouldn't look like a bunch of twits if the power failed or anything) the LHC should have been on by the time you read this.

I didn't get around to organising a proper party, so I figure a new thread on the fforum most likely to pay attention to that sort of thing would do.

So, science-nerds among us, what do you think will happen (in a couple of months, when it's working properly)?

Time will reverse and we'll have to sit through the Olympics all over again!

<groans>

(BK, I know where you got that thread name from!)

Best quote I heard comes from a physics prof: The processes in the collider happen all the time throughout the universe, and nothing dramatic has happened yet. So, the very fact that the critics can speak out about their concerns prooves them to be wrong.

And the Olympics redivivus is allready going on: the Paralymics. All kudos to the athletes, but how many variants of table tennis can you watch: with one arm, without arms, sitting in a wheel chair...? It gets boring.

I've said it before, Bonz, and I'll say it again: no matter how powerful the motor is, it only becomes dangerous when some fool gets behind the wheel and takes it out of 'idle' mode.

We were all waiting for the recreation of the universal big bang and, theoretically, a 'full circle' effect that would signal the end of the universe as we know it. This would be signalled by two Protons, travelling at near the speed of light and in opposite directions to each other, having a head-on smash.

Owing to the Proton marque being a popular choice among local cab drivers, it is a regular event in my neck of the woods anyway, but only if they're on the same carriageway of the M25. Has no one realised that, in Atlas terms, THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED YET?! Of course all those big boys were happy playing with their new toy - all they did was switch the ignition on! Protons whizzing round and round in opposite directions isn't going to hurt anybody - not even local cab drivers - it's when the dome-heads line things up so one of those particles smashes through the central reservation, and there's a head-on collision with another one going equally fast, that humankind loses its no claims bonus.

As far as I was concerned, yesterday's little non-event simply meant I'd have to pay my electricity bill, after all.
It won't be half as big as the one in Geneva, though.



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I couldn't really start it with Zoidburg's routine, could I, Prinz?

Heard on U.K. radio: if it cost 4 000 000 000 GBP to pay for this, who paid for the first one?

I thought you might be interested in these links :D

[www.cyriak.co.uk]

[hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com]

(You have to read what the URL reads in the second one before clicking it, *Grins*)



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Ah... I've just read the alt tag on a certain cartoon...

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That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

*snigger*

I still wonder why all the fuss about it.

The benefits are there....
Of course, I like abstract knowledge.

My question is what happens if they do *not* find the Higgs Boson....

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It's a worthy project, but is they don't find the Higgs Boson then there'll be a public relations black hole there which might consume them all unless they find something even more interesting. No matter what happens, the indirect applications just of the technology developed for the experiment itself could be of immense use in other settings.

Really? I'd have thought if they didn't find it, they'd all be terribly excited because they get to start physics over again- pretty much from "Gravity probably makes things fall down"

I accept the indirect applications being useful. This is just idle musing. ;)

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
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How do you know that the universe didn't switch to an alternate time line when the collisions began?

We may be in local universe 1B right now.

As long as the chocolate and chico rolls came through with us I think i will be able to survive.

Chico rolls? There's no chocolate in the vending machine so maybe it didn't come through.

It can't be local universe 1B right now as they have square frisbees and mine is still round.

Egon.

Ah, it's been over a week & we're not dead yet, or at least I'm not-
maybe it'll just knock down the walls between all the parallel universes & start raining chocolate in a few years...

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EgonSpengler Wrote:
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> Chico rolls? There's no chocolate in the vending
> machine so maybe it didn't come through.
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> It can't be local universe 1B right now as they
> have square frisbees and mine is still round.
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> Egon.


Are you sure it is round?

Well it's definitely lacking in angularity... unless the local space-time continuum is shifting my perceptions so that round things are angular and angular things are round.

Nurse! The screens!