Large Hadron Collider

Well well. According to the BBC it's all ok. Higgs Bosun has been found, we can all go home.

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Yep, because your washing machine would be compressed to the size of a pin head.
Is it right that the big bang started off with an object only the size of a penny colliding with something many moons ago ???
 
That was one of the quotes on BBC news this morning

Maybe I should work from the BBC then.

Anyways, massive achievement and its been an interesting project to follow. It has really inspired me to want to learn more about science, more than anything I ever did at school.
 
and if this experiment doesn't work? 5bn down the drain :mad:

You seem to have forgotten that this experiment has already given us the internet, scanners for airport security and MRI scanners to greatly improve health care. Seems like we've already got our moneys worth, and it can only get better:)
 
and it's not 5bn down the drain :mad:

If it doesn't find the higgs field / boson then it proves it does not exist and our current model of how the universe began is wrong...
 
I guess this bit of the experiment is quite important cause if it didn't work they would have to check the whole thing again and repair whatever was broken and that would probably have taken months.
Now it's going to get interesting. They now know that the beam can go round the whole ring so all they need to do now is cross their fingers and hope that they can speed it up to nearly the speed of light, making sure the machine doesnt melt from the heat.
I guess the big countdown of this experiment is when they actually make the particles colide. That will be the 'man on the moon' moment.
 
I guess this bit of the experiment is quite important cause if it didn't work they would have to check the whole thing again and repair whatever was broken and that would probably have taken months.
Now it's going to get interesting. They now know that the beam can go round the whole ring so all they need to do now is cross their fingers and hope that they can speed it up to nearly the speed of light, making sure the machine doesnt melt from the heat.
I guess the big countdown of this experiment is when they actually make the particles colide. That will be the 'man on the moon' moment.

They need to make the beam go the other way yet ;)

THEN they can think about speeding the thing up...or maybe collide at a slow pace.
 
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