Countdown To Who Knows What

Vulcan · 12 Jun 2008 at 22:59

helmet said:
It'll be another millennium bug misconception.
Cool? Not at all, when you compare it to how that money could have been better spent on improving the place that people call home the entire project is a shambles.

Yeah, you're right, let's just give all our money to poor countries.

Trying to improve our technology and knowledge of science? The West makes me sick! :mad:

tuffty747 · 12 Jun 2008 at 23:30

At least I'll make 16 years of age before the thing gets switched on and we could all potentially die...

(Birthday in 13 days

)

Will be extremely interesting to find out what happens though

ElectroBlaster · 12 Jun 2008 at 23:36

When I was 14 or around that age I dream'nt of a really weird event where im stuck in a doorway in town with a woman and a child. The wind picks up and the sky goes black and everyone around us is either clinging on or being blown off their feet. Im 33 now and I never really took that dream serious but of all the disastors in the past this thing at CERN makes me wonder if it does go bad that it could well be the thing that wipes us out. So much for the bruce willis asteroid scenario it will be a bunch of eggheads playing with atoms lol.

aslco · 12 Jun 2008 at 23:59

Yeah well were always our own enemy but also our specie has done brilliantly through curiosity and inquisitiveness. So, this is just another thing lol.

Pookie Bear · 13 Jun 2008 at 00:14

Cybermyk said:
Apparently the first experiment will cut a sandwich in half to see what the result is.

More importantly, will it be cut horizontally or vertically?

Mansize_tissue · 13 Jun 2008 at 00:26

Luw said:
More importantly, will it be cut horizontally or vertically?

Or, eurgh, diagonally.

Hmm, I'm really interested to see what happens with this.

Lydzor · 13 Jun 2008 at 00:35

Remember, if this does result in apocalypse, then make sure you post asap on the forum.

Fubsy · 13 Jun 2008 at 00:37

Luw said:
More importantly, will it be cut horizontally or vertically?

Or will they then have 2 sandwiches or 1 in two halves...

Mansize_tissue · 13 Jun 2008 at 00:39

Lydzor said:
Remember, if this does result in apocalypse, then make sure you post asap on the forum.

That's a point, I'm surprised there's been no "spec me an anti-one-of-those-things" thread yet. I mean, it'd be nice to have some sort of backup should Raikiri fail to save us.

Cr0fty · 13 Jun 2008 at 02:13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider said:
Prior to being injected into the main accelerator, the particles are prepared through a series of systems that successively increase the particle energy levels. The first system is the linear accelerator Linac 2 generating 50 MeV protons which feeds the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB). Protons are then injected at 1.4 GeV into the Proton Synchrotron (PS) at 26 GeV. Finally the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is used to increase the energy of protons up to 450 GeV.

The LHC will also be used to collide lead (Pb) heavy ions with a collision energy of 1,150 TeV. The ions will be first accelerated by the linear accelerator Linac 3, and the Low-Energy Injector Ring (LEIR) will be used as an ion storage and cooler unit. The ions then will be further accelerated by the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) before being injected into LHC ring, where they will reach an energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon.

Sounds like childs play to me...

That is some seriously fast moving stuff :eek: