Large Hadron Collider

HeadlessChicken said:
Picture fixed ;)

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Haha I guess Gordon wants his crowbar back...that's inappropriate use! You can't crack open the LHC with that! :eek:

Oh and is that Johnny Ball on the left? (or Tony Robinson) at least he has a comfy jacket on :D now kids this is the LHC and it smashes atoms...can you see the atoms smashing?

I switched my TV on this morning to BBC News just as they switched on the LHC - spooky :)
 
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at the moment it's testing at very low power which is why it's taking a while to go round, but even then it's only a few seconds to go the 17miles.
 
Delvis said:
It takes a fair few minutes to do a full circle? No?
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They're training the guiding magnets so it's slow going at the moment, the first loop took almost an hour. Basically they injected the protons and they hold them various sections whilst calibrating the magnets.

Once calibrated the protons will be accelerated to near light speed to it won't take very long to go around at all.
 
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When did the Big Bang Theory stop being a theory and become a fact?

Personally I don't buy it. Conceptually, maybe, but I can't see how you could ascertain the exact conditions before it occurred.
 
Jambo said:
When did the Big Bang Theory stop being a theory and become a fact?

Personally I don't buy it. Conceptually, maybe, but I can't see how you could ascertain the exact conditions before it occurred.
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It hasn't stopped being a theory yet. That is the entire point of this experiment, hoping to prove the big bang.
 
jonno.co.uk said:
and if this experiment doesn't work? 5bn down the drain :mad:
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yes, and I'm sure you really felt the 5bn come out of your wages ;)

Anyway...wasen't it 15bn? :p

Besides, it isn't just the one experiment they are doing, loads of thing's could crop up...Even thing's they haven't thought aabout...Say...White holes :D
 
nikebee said:
It hasn't stopped being a theory yet. That is the entire point of this experiment, hoping to prove the big bang.
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Well I wish they would stop describing it as if it is.

How did our universe come to be the way it is?

The Universe started with a Big Bang – but we don’t fully understand how or why it developed the way it did. The LHC will let us see how matter behaved a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Researchers have some ideas of what to expect – but also expect the unexpected!
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Everyone's at it.
 
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