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The Large Hadron Collider is now online

Started by Valerie Valens, Sep 13 2008 05:15 AM

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#1 Valerie Valens

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Posted 13 September 2008 - 05:15 AM

...it has been for 3 days, yet no topic has been made.

Required viewing :

TED Talk : LHC
Atom : The Illusion of Reality

Required Reading :

Supersymmetry
Hierarchy Problem
Grand Unification Theory
Higgs Boson
Higgs Mechanism

Discuss :

1 - Will we be able to finally find the Higgs Boson?
2 - What is the likelyhood that we will find even more elementary particles and realise that the quarks, bosons, fermions and leptons are made of even more elementary particles?
2a - Or do they come in more flavours?
2b - What would it entail for the current working model of equations used to calculate the physics of particles?
3 - Will we be able to discover the mystery behind the theory of Particle Supersymmetry?
3a - Will it be able to solve the Hierarchy problem?
3b - Will it unite the Electromagnetic, Strong Nuclear Force and Weak Nuclear Force?
3b1 - What would failure of such mean for physics?
3b2 - What would the success of such entail for uniting Gravity with the Electromagnetic-Nuclear superforce?

By the way, no doomsday talk please, we have heard it a million times ; Black holes, Ice-9 type strangelet transition, vacuum bubbles. It's all junk science propagated by sci-fi novels and exit mundi enthousiasts and it is no cause for any real concern. [Link]

#2 furrykef

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Posted 13 September 2008 - 04:10 PM

QUOTE ("Valerie Valens":1crera9g)

By the way, no doomsday talk please, we have heard it a million times ; Black holes, Ice-9 type strangelet transition, vacuum bubbles. It's all junk science propagated by sci-fi novels and exit mundi enthousiasts and it is no cause for any real concern.

But what about this?

QUOTE ("some website":1crera9g)

At four points in the tunnel, the scientist will use giant magnets to cross the beams and cause protons to collide.

- Kef

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#3 fishtheimpaler

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Posted 13 September 2008 - 06:34 PM

QUOTE ("furrykef":2pydza24)

QUOTE ("Valerie Valens":2pydza24)

But what about this?

QUOTE ("some website":2pydza24)

At four points in the tunnel, the scientist will use giant magnets to cross the beams and cause protons to collide.

- Kef

. . . .

. . . . that's what a particle accelerator does? I don't get it.

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#4 furrykef

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 02:37 AM

Ever seen Ghostbusters? What's the most important rule when dealing with your proton pack?

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#5 Kaotix

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 06:52 AM

Never cross the streams.

"He who is strong conquers others. He who is mighty conquers himself."

#6 chief

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 09:35 AM

Never smack one proton into another Making small big bangs.

Neh... This is cool but nothing I'm going to jump outa my chair for

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 02:43 PM

QUOTE ("Kaotix":2kzq7j1r)

Never cross the streams.

True, but the article claimed they would cross the BEAMS, not streams. A beam is quite different, but this is still dangerous, because everyone knows that where the beams intersect, you will find the Dark Tower and, O Discordia, it'll be the end of all things.

#8 furrykef

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 04:25 PM

I knew that the actual quote is "never cross the streams", not "beams", but a lot of people remember it as "beams", so the joke still works. Except on crazy little pedants like you.

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#9 chief

An7imatt3r was here =p

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 04:52 PM

QUOTE ("Red Sonic":27t12200)

QUOTE ("Kaotix":27t12200)

Never cross the streams.

Aye... I wonder when Roland will appear? And those bastardly type 1 vampires.

#10 GamemasterAnthony

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 10:29 PM

Wait a minute..."Ice-9"?!? I thought I was the only one here who knew about "Cat's Cradle"?

#11 Tristan Palmgren

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Posted 16 September 2008 - 07:04 PM

QUOTE ("Valerie Valens":f270iqpk)

Discuss :

1 - Will we be able to finally find the Higgs Boson?
2 - What is the likelyhood that we will find even more elementary particles and realise that the quarks, bosons, fermions and leptons are made of even more elementary particles?
2a - Or do they come in more flavours?
2b - What would it entail for the current working model of equations used to calculate the physics of particles?
3 - Will we be able to discover the mystery behind the theory of Particle Supersymmetry?
3a - Will it be able to solve the Hierarchy problem?
3b - Will it unite the Electromagnetic, Strong Nuclear Force and Weak Nuclear Force?
3b1 - What would failure of such mean for physics?
3b2 - What would the success of such entail for uniting Gravity with the Electromagnetic-Nuclear superforce?

The problem with discussing all of these questions is that, if we knew the answers, we wouldn't need to build the LHC.

I'm surprised no one's linked to Hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com.

It even has an RSS feed--in case it needs to update.

#12 Guest_Telgin_*

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 01:51 PM

Well, whatever becomes of it I'm glad that it's online now and that they'll be able to get information out of it "relatively" soon. Forget the naysayers who believe it'll destroy the world...

I hope that they find the Higgs boson and all, but quite frankly I don't believe that's exactly what they'll find. Something that theoretical and hard to observe just can't be done right the first time. I suspect that they'll find something that either leads them in the right way, or something very similar at the least, though.

Any other knowledge gained is surely a plus.

#13 Kaotix

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 06:24 PM

http://www.joystiq.c...adron-collider/

No good can come from this.

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#14 ALIENwolve

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 06:29 PM

QUOTE ("Kaotix":1tn36vsl)

http://www.joystiq.c...adron-collider/

No good can come from this.

That... that can't be real... There's no way both the G-Man and Gordon Freeman are going to be spotted with the same company on big science experiments.

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#15 Jman1236

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 08:27 PM

This just in, The Large Hadron Collider is no longer called the Large Hadron Collider, it is now called "Halo".

I'm not making this up. http://kotaku.com/50...-was-its-name o

So don't worry, it won't make micro black holes or stanglets now, the only danger is it making parasitic aliens bent on eating all life on the planet, or joining with serveral other Halos to kill all life in the galaxy. LMAO.