The LHC going online

[fukuda 351]

No, they'll send the first beam, but there won't be collisions for some weeks

[your_adress_here 11]

The world may end tomorrow, but I saved money on car insurance by switching to Gecko!

[saathoff37 11]

So when does this actually go online? Tommorow like headlines say? or when?

[TV-VCR 15]

Originally posted by: saathoff37 So when does this actually go online? Tommorow like headlines say? or when?quote>

They're going to circulate a beam through the entire LHC on September 10th. The first collisions start taking place on October 21st.

Originally posted by: your_adress_here The world may end tomorrow, but I saved money on car insurance by switching to Gecko!quote>

Couldn't have said it any better !

-VCR

[coolotter88 2]

destroying the world is so easy, a caveman could do it!

[PhilsCafe 8]

I trust those scientists that they don't blow up Geneva...

[Jersey_17011 0]

just another way in which we can end human civilization yay!

no, but seriously im interested to see what they'll find

either we'll unlock the key to the universe, or not.

lol

so the LHC got a 00:20 second spot on the news for me

although the airports are taking all the weapons collected at security to make an art exhibit -

obviously more important *sigh*

this is why i don't really watch the news haha

[Hamish 1,370]

Is it just me, or were there more people worried about the Y2K bug than instant death at any time?

Personally I not worried about this, because I cant stop it, if it does kill everyone then whats the point of spending your last few weeks in utter terror. But mainly because its not going to destroy the world.

[coolotter88 2]

lol @ someone in India who committed suicide because of the "experiment in europe that will kill us all"

[Boggy1 45]

There is a really cool live webcamera of the LHC facility Here. Not much is going on at the moment..I saw a couple of engineers walk past, but it is still quite awesome to watch.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: Boggy1 There is a really cool live webcamera of the LHC facility Here. Not much is going on at the moment..I saw a couple of engineers walk past, but it is still quite awesome to watch.quote>

 

Very nice

[Muck308 55]

I don't get it... did the world just end? Cause I really wanted to use this coupon for a free bagel with purchase of small coffee... And I haven't finished The Merchant of Venice yet.

But seriously, that is quite enjoyable.

[SimRabbit 48]

It's Thursday and we are still alive.

It's incredible what people can do, like this girl in India that took her life because the thought the world would end.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24328351-401,00.html

[vailo 13]

There is a really cool live webcamera of the LHC facility Here. Not much is going on at the moment..I saw a couple of engineers walk past, but it is still quite awesome to watch. quote>

Someting creepy happened. As soon as I saw that webcam, red lights flashed and everything went black

[coolotter88 2]

Originally posted by: SimRabbit It's Thursday and we are still alive.

It's incredible what people can do, like this girl in India that took her life because the thought the world would end.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24328351-401,00.htmlquote>

What I was laughing at. What's the point? We'll all go when we go.

Was she trying to beat the traffic?

[Danlikebooks 6]

Originally posted by: vailo

There is a really cool live webcamera of the LHC facility Here. Not much is going on at the moment..I saw a couple of engineers walk past, but it is still quite awesome to watch. quote>

Someting creepy happened. As soon as I saw that webcam, red lights flashed and everything went black

quote>

Same here!  I almost wet myself (almost).

[Boggy1 45]

Well, the LHC has had a MAJOR fault and setback. Damn. this sucks...

The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) says.

Part of the giant physics experiment was turned off for the weekend while engineers probed a magnet failure.

But a Cern spokesman said damage to the

[TV-VCR 15]

^ Bugger! I guess we'll have to wait until December. But yes, that sucks.

-Chris

[Boggy1 45]

We'll have to wait a lot longer than December. The first collisions are now scheduled to take place in April 2009, with the first high energy ones sometime in Autumn 2009. Darn. They were going to shut down the LHC over the winter anyway (it draws too much power from the surrounding area), but still.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Dang

I suppose they can still use it to erase VCR tapes.

[GMT 389]

It took me g**damn 4 weeks to get stuff together to get prepared for the end of the world, I blew my kredit allowance by a 7 figure digit to get me a floating device and a waterproof baseball-cap, a portable microwave oven and a 1-barrel bottle of corona and now what?

god must hate me. I was soooo looking forward to the end of the world and now this. damn scientists. cant even blow up our planet... or suck it up... or let it disappear in a black hole... or let cat-sized headcrabs turn us into zombies...

anyone wanna buy a waterproof baseball-cap?

[Hahayoudied 3]

Lol GMT, you are joking, right?

Anyways, I doubt a black hole would form, if anyone wants me to type out a wall of spam to prove it, then I will.

[TV-VCR 15]

Originally posted by: GMT It took me g**damn 4 weeks to get stuff together to get prepared for the end of the world, I blew my kredit allowance by a 7 figure digit to get me a floating device and a waterproof baseball-cap, a portable microwave oven and a 1-barrel bottle of corona and now what?

god must hate me. I was soooo looking forward to the end of the world and now this. damn scientists. cant even blow up our planet... or suck it up... or let it disappear in a black hole... or let cat-sized headcrabs turn us into zombies...

anyone wanna buy a waterproof baseball-cap?quote>

Too funny GMT.

Ugh, I'm still dissapointed as hell that we're going to have to wait almost another year to get to see the LHC in action...

[Mistagnerd 0]

@ GMT: Your kidding right?

Sucks that we have to wait. I still can't believe that a girl committed suicide. Was that true or made up?

[Yeah_Right 2]

The world is not going to end ffs.

And you will have to wait 4 years until the protons actually get up to speed... or something like that,

And if in that 1% chance that black hole appears, it will be as small as a proton, and they will isolate it so it doesn't expand.

But if it does expand it will take 4 months at an exponential rate to reach the other side of the globe: Australia woo lol

So there will be no instant death..

side note: imo being sucked into a black hole would be kinda fun..u get turned into spaghetti ...hmm

[GMT 389]

of course I wasn't joking!

I was a oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonehundred % serious!

as for the LHC thing, I'm kinda sad it didn't work the way it should. after all, I had pretty high expectations (no, not the end of the world... albeit it would have been a great "some kind of scientific oops that'll end us all"). After all, they were, amongst other things, looking for a new energy source.

Now that they have to repair it first and then fire it up again, we gotta wait even longer for possibly usefull results.

as for the black hole... well... if it would happen, we're screwed. I doubt they'll be able to isolate it within the fields of the LHC. Just can't imagine a manmade machine can isolate the most fearsome, known occurance available (right after mankind that is) in space.

as for the australia part, yeah right, you forgot that the black hole actually sucks in and not just spread, so it won't take 4 months to make ayer's rock become ayer's dust, I guess it'll be close to instant, maybe a couple of hours only.

BUUUUT, then again, maybe a black hole is some sort of a worm hole and we find ourselfs in one piece in a world with infinite resources of crude oil, gold, beautiful beaches, highways w/o speedlimit and free supermodels for everyone...

what did you say? stop dreaming? cmon, it's sunday...

[xV.I.N.C.E.N.T.x 0]

Originally posted by: Yeah_Right The world is not going to end ffs.

And you will have to wait 4 years until the protons actually get up to speed... or something like that,

And if in that 1% chance that black hole appears, it will be as small as a proton, and they will isolate it so it doesn't expand.

But if it does expand it will take 4 months at an exponential rate to reach the other side of the globe: Australia woo lol

So there will be no instant death..

side note: imo being sucked into a black hole would be kinda fun..u get turned into spaghetti ...hmmquote>

 

Curious.  How do you know this?  I mean I agree with ya, however.  Physicist don't post in simtropolis.com...although, I have learned a lot here.   Hmmmm

But I hear ya.

Vin

Side Note.  They weren't looking for speed...only to smash protons together in a specific destination.

[Yeah_Right 2]

Im no physicist, but i am a physics student and have been studying it in class...

hehe, why wouldn't scholars lurk the revolution that is simtropolis

You can't just smash protons together...protons repel,

try hitting 2 magnets on the same side, if you do it slowly they will not hit, but hit them fast enough and u will get contact.

Nobody knows what a black hole is, but if it sucks things in, it must get bigger?

Stuff (or matter) can't just vanish, which is what the LHC is trying to disprove/prove/do something interesting.

When the big bang occured, they think matter and anti-matter connected and exploded.

But now the anti-matter does not exist...so it must have gone somewhere?

The LHC is recreating the big bang, (they think hitting 2 protons can do it :s) to see where the anti-matter is gone.

If a black hole is created, it will be about 1.65

[Boggy1 45]

Yeah_Right: Actually...antimatter does exist. Everytime a type of reaction in an accelerator occurs, a few nanograms of antimatter is produced. So far we have a few tens of nanograms of antimatter.

The Big Bang wasn't produced by antimatter and matter colliding; as the Big Bang created matter and antimatter. Before it, there was neither.

Stuff can vanish; 'stuff' is appearing and vanishing every few seconds everywhere around you on the quantum scale. It's related to the Uncertainty Principle.

The LHC isn't really recreating the Big Bang. It's trying to recreate the exotic particles that existed in the Early Universe that are now gone. (when you collide particles together; the 'debris' that comes off the collision is new exotic particles.

A black hole that small wouldn't be called a black hole, it would be a Quantum Singularity. And it won't be created. Why? Because ultra-high energy collisions 10000% more powerful than anything created in the LHC are happening all over the world all the time in the upper atmosphere. They have done for the last four billion years or so. No singularity has come from them; nothing like that will come from this.

[sim-Al2 4]

Originally posted by: Boggy1 Yeah_Right:

 No singularity has come from them; nothing like that will come from this.quote>

Actually, those atmosmeric collisions DO produce Quantum Singularitys. It's just they diappear before they suck all the air off the planet.

I remember watching a documentry of particle accelerators, and man has made himself a couple grams of anti-matter since the early fifities or something like that. Doesn't seem like much, but you can produce quite bit of enegry with that