Awesome Large Hadron Collider Pictures

hope they have built in plenty of secret tunnels and air ducts for Freeman to climb through when it all goes Pete Tong



edit: lol @ the little firetrain :)
 
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Hahah :D
 
andy@moFo said:
What actually does it do, Bar cooking chickens in less than 10secs flat.
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its basically a massive particle accelerator

When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.[6][1] The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only mavity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized novel particles that might be produced, and for which searches[7] are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider



edit: oh and may be able to teleport aliens from a distant galaxy to earth so they can annihilate the human race!
 
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it's actually been running for a week now, though no particles have been fired as of yet, they are basically testing it and increasing power daily iirc. They will start firing particles on 20th Sept.
 
I think we're safe.

First of all, mother nature can produce subatomic particles of greater energy than the puny LHC in the form of cosmic rays. These high-energy particles, which are accelerated to astronomical energies by huge magnetic and electric fields in space, have been raining down on Earth for billions of years, plenty of time to swallow up the planet - yet we are still here to write about it.

Secondly, these mini black holes are not just small black holes; they are actually subatomic in size, comparable to electrons or protons. The entire energy created by these particles would not even light up a light bulb if the LHC were running for a hundred years. Although the subatomic particles produced by the LHC can have trillions of electron volts, the LHC is expected, at best, to create mini black holes at the rate of one per second, which is much too small to cause any appreciable danger to anyone.

In the same way that animals from the cat family come in all sizes, from ferocious lions to harmless domestic cats, black holes also come in all sizes, from the astronomically colossal to the totally insignificant.

Thirdly, these mini black holes are unstable, and quickly decay. Instead of gobbling up matter and becoming big enough to eat up the Earth, they go in the opposite direction, emitting radiation so that they eventually disappear into nothing, a process proposed by the renowned Cambridge physicist, Stephen Hawking. So these subatomic black holes naturally self-destruct.
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