Large Hadron Collider going online in 3 hours.

[Sisk]

to be, or not to be, that is the question

[CubanSucks]

Hmm, much intellect has been shown in this thread all of a sudden. Perhaps...the LHC did do something? Perhaps...this is all just a dream? One also has to ask themself, what is dream? What is reality?

[The Reckoning]

if i were to saddle the particles and bask in the mini black holes, would i be granted immortality from the relative perspective of the world?

[Sisk]

How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all color blind?

[baseline bum]

How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all color blind?

Because green is defined by a wavelength and not a visual interpretation.

[Sisk]

Because green is defined by a wavelength and not a visual interpretation.

[Wild Cobra]

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.

I was feeling the same way when I woke up.

Isn't this suppose to be Wednesday?

[Wild Cobra]

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.

Wrong.

We knew enough about mathematics to know a chain reaction wouldn't continue in the lighter elements.

[ShoogarBear]

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.

Just wait til I get 4G!

[baseline bum]

Damn, where do you get a 4GHz monitor? My is only 60Hz. Newegg got a special on those?

[LnGrrrR]

Because green is defined by a wavelength and not a visual interpretation.

What about qualia?

[TDMVPDPOY]

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/...109-17m30.html

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva reproduced conditions that existed moments after the creation of the universe by colliding beams of lead ions - lead atoms stripped of their electrons - at close to the speed of light.

Okay so they can push something out of there asses at the speed of light, but cant push a space ship or something solid at the speed of light...these fkn european tools wasted 13b euros....

[phyzik]

Okay so they can push something out of there asses at the speed of light, but cant push a space ship or something solid at the speed of light...these fkn european tools wasted 13b euros....

Your talking about a system that is 17 miles in cir erence, pushing just a few particles of matter to collide with eachother.....

And you expect them to compress that into something managable as the size of a spaceship?

Even compressing that type of power into something the size of an air craft carrier is insane at this point in time, nevermind that it only pushes a few particles, not even mesurable on a weight scale.

Even then, the science of particle acceleration just doesnt work as a propulsion system even if we where able to do it.... at least not at this point in time.

I wont say its impossible, science has proven the impossible possible too many times to be counted out, but I doubt we see something like that in our lifetimes.

[Wild Cobra]

Okay so they can push something out of there asses at the speed of light, but cant push a space ship or something solid at the speed of light...these fkn european tools wasted 13b euros....

It's not a waste to see what particles do at relativistic speeds. It's good science.

If I did the math right, a single proton would have to travel 99.999999999996% the speed of light to have a mass of 1 kg. This is a multiplication of 6.2596 E 26. If we could accelerate ten grams of weed that fast, it would have a mass greater than the earth.

It takes energy to get these speed. Don't expect light speed travel any time soon.

[Soul_Patch]

So did the Hardons collide or not?

[Drachen]

As the years tick on, I'm beginning to realize there will never come a time that I don't initially read the name of this thing as the Large Hardon Collider.

There is a T-shirt that you can buy that says "Particle physics give me a Hadron"