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Are you serious? WOW, people were were ing dumb back then...
*fast-forward 50 years*
"Remember that Large Hadtron Collider? People thought it'd create a black hole, but all it did was give us superpowers."
LOL...Hm, did not know that. But you're older than I, so I guess that's to be expected.
I do remember all the hoopla about Y2K though. I actually got a great price purchasing plane tickets to fly that day.
Good for you.
What I remember of Y2K was my $30k+ stock profits in the semiconductor industry. The business was booming to replace all the older computers. Bought a new 2000 Z28 with $19k down. Financed enough to reestablish some lacking credit. Could have paid cash... $25,800... is what I got it for.
Are you serious? WOW, people were were ing dumb back then...
*fast-forward 50 years*
"Remember that Large Hadtron Collider? People thought it'd create a black hole, but all it did was give us superpowers."
WC is right. When humanity first decided to split the atom, there were those physicists who thought the nuclear reaction would set off a chain reaction with the atmosphere, basically nuking and killing every living thing on Earth.
Needless to say, they were wrong.
The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva succeeded early Tuesday in colliding subatomic particles at three times the highest energy levels previously recorded.
Scientists gathered in a room at Caltech and in similar groups around the globe witnessed the achievement at 3:58 PDT.
"There were cheers in all the control rooms," said Caltech physicist Harvey Newman. "As soon as we get the data, we're analyzing it … it's been a long time coming."
Researchers were waiting for the promised flood of data that would come as protons from two particle beams from the 17-mile-cir ference collider smashed into each other.
Several experiments using the particle accelerator could help test for smaller particles, dark matter, other dimensions, supersymmetry and other theories in particle physics, researchers said.
"We're pretty happy because we've been waiting all night," said Andy Yen, 21, a senior who had worked on experiments related to the collider for most of his undergraduate career. "Some people have been waiting 15, 20 years – it's late, but it's worth it."
Earlier that night, two previous attempts to ramp up the accelerator had been cut short, and the researchers, who at peak attendance numbered two-dozen-plus, were running low on pizza and energy. The buzz of conversation between professors and doctoral candidates died down each time the two beams were spun in preparation for the planned collision.
Many said they had planned stay all night until the data began to flow in, even though they would not have immediate access to the measurements. Caltech particle physicist Bertrand Echenard said he was staying for the experience.
"When you watch the Olympic Games, you can watch the flame for 15 days, but what you want to watch is the [torch] lighting," Echenard said, standing below two clocks: one with "GENEVA" pasted over the glass, a second covered in "CAL TECH."
"It really is the start of something."
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/...tory?track=rss
please visit the site so they don't go all E-N
Buffy wasn't cancelled. They ended the show on their own terms.
But it was still a sad day.
This is freaky. Yesterday I came to my office, sat around, and did some work. Today? Same damn thing. I'm pretty sure that this collider doo-hickey has thrown us all into an inescapable loop.
Yeah, but the people doing it at the time also did not know for sure that these people were wrong but they went ahead and did it anyway.
alright guys
we are still here. no black hole destroying the earth.
woot science.
Yes and no. The LHC almost mirrors the two endeavors exactly, except that with The Bomb, the immediate results were FAR more apparent, thus helping fuel the hysteria of Armageddon.
I'm not sure the refresh rate is going to be good enough to capture a shot of a proton going at speed 0.999933c.
If there's no black hole or superpowers, obviously they didn't do it right.
Dr. Evil will have to devise a new plan.
Are any of you SURE we're not dead?
this thread died cause no black hole...
THANKS CERN
cogito ergo sum
je pense donc je suis
I think we both sound a little pretentious right now
Get a room.
Oh gosh...just stop, you silly
So we're still alive?
The LHC is not prepared to let us know we are dead. It traveled back in time to enslave us in a kind of suspended animation to harvest our bodies for its nefarious purposes.
MUST. FIND. A. WAY OUT!
What exactly is "alive"? One has to ask themself.
just bein pretentious again
meh everyone's looking for a way to die that's painless and guiltless. that's why deep inside, most people were kind of hoping it would happen...
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