recreating the big bang?

Flemingovia

Flemingovia

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So, let me summarise....

On Wednesday in Switzerland they are turning on this bloody great big particle accelerator.....

This will accelerate hadron particles to as-near-as-dammit the speed of light and smash them into each other, to see what happens.....

Millions of times a second.......

creating immense amounts of energy......

This recreates what happened in the big bang.....

They say the chances of creating a black hole in the middle of europe are "very small, less than 500m to one."

Repeating again: This recreates what happened in the big bang....

To see what happens.....

and......

wait for it........

One of the chief designers of this accelerator is the former keyboard player in the indie band D:Ream.....

No, I am not making this up....

all I can say is, Gatesville had better get their asses in gear and invade before Wednesday.
 
They're not recreating the big bang for the whole universe just seeingwhat happens when you bash particles together at ultra high speeds. It's like geek Nascar.
 
I like the idea that all universes end with someone trying to recreate the start of it just to see what it was like...
 
How do you think the Universe was created last time? Some idiot with a massive particle accelerator trying to reenact the birth of the Universe. I don't know about you but I'm going to go find a paper bag and put it over my head now.
 
Not long now. See you all on the other side.

Although the bookies favourite is most of Alps turning into a back hole, the smart money is on the zombie apocalypse 100:1 outsider.

Hmmmm, brainz...
 
Blue Wolf II:
How do you think the Universe was created last time? Some idiot with a massive particle accelerator trying to reenact the birth of the Universe. I don't know about you but I'm going to go find a paper bag and put it over my head now.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHA! The paper bag comment get you a "Romanoffia Award for A Most Hysterical Comment Award"!

I love all the hype over the CERN project. I have the whole thing described to me by a Turkish engineer I know who works on this project. He visited the US and stopped by the farm to ride horses and hunt and gave me the low-down a while back.

The accelerator in question is doing nothing that any other accelerator doesn't do. They are just looking at what happens using a different paradigm for sensor arrays and methods. Essentially, the worst that can happen with this experiment is that they have a failure to properly observe what happened followed my the major catastrophe of a really, really big electric bill and a lot of late-night TV show jokes.

I can just see the Star Trek Next Generation Character Q saying......."Oh, Look!........nothing happened."

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In case something catastrophic actually happens, look at the bright side - George Carlin picked a really good time to check out.
:lol:
 
:blink: :blink: :blink:

Are you all still there? Am I the only one left??

I'm assuming we once again failed to initiate Armageddon haha.

Damn! Maybe next time...
 
No black holes here. However it did rain chunks of whale meat in my back yard just a while ago. Oh, and Flem now has two heads. ;D
 
Atom smasher's computers hacked


HACKERS claim they have broken into the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider, the mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos.

A group calling itself the Greek Security Team left a rogue webpage mocking the technicians responsible for computer security at the giant atom smasher as "schoolkids", Britain's Times and Daily Telegraph reported.

The hackers vowed they had no intention of disrupting the experiment at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) on the Swiss-French border, they just wanted to highlight the flaws in the computer system's security.

"We're pulling your pants down because we don't want to see you running around naked looking to hide yourselves when the panic comes," they wrote, according to the Daily Telegraph.

The hackers claimed to have gained access to a website open to other scientists on Wednesday as the LHC passed its first test with flying colours, the reports said.

They appear to have tried to gain access to the computer system of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment, one of the four detectors that will be analysing the progress of the experiment.

James Gillies, a spokesman for CERN, told the Times: "We don't know who they were but there seems to be no harm done. It appears to be people who want to make a point that CERN was hackable."

Scientists hailed the success of the start of the experiment on Wednesday in the Large Hadron Collider, the 27km circular tunnel in which parallel beams of protons will be accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

Superconducting magnets will then steer the counter-rotating beams so that strings of protons smash together in four huge laboratories, fleetingly replicating the conditions that prevailed at the "Big Bang" that created the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

:duh:
 
I think I read somewhere that there is approximately a one in either 10,000 or 100,000 chance this thing could actually spawn a black hole and kill us all. Here's something to think about: Maybe it already did!

Seriously, in order for this to theoretically work, the machine must break Einstein's Theory of Relativity, as Hawking Radiation is what will hopefully save us from these "mini black holes".
 
"We" lost parts of Georgia? First, who is we? BW is Georgian!!
And they are not "lost", just under a different rule (as opposed to the effect a black hole would have).
Calm down boys.
 
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