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My mums birthday on the 14th, i best put off getting her something in case there is no point 
Large Hadron Collider
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There won't be anything going on in the LHC that doesn't already happen in our atmosphere when the cosmic rays slam into it so the whole nonsense about this causing the end of the world is just down to people liking a good scare story.
When they say there's a chance the world could end they're talking about the similar kind of probability to the chance of you passing straight through a concrete wall if you were to walk into in it.
I drew this a while ago, I believe it to be the most accurate representation of what will happen when they finally begin testing the LHC in October 2008.
Yes, but will the Free man free us all?
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I am quite excited about this, if they do discover this new particle it is quite a leap for science and maybe some kind of unified theory as the one we use now is obviously wrong. Shame I will be asleep when it happens, just hope I wake up.
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Nothing's happening on Wednesday; they're just testing it with one beam…
No they're not.
They abandoned the "testing" phase due to the fact if anything went wrong it would take months to get any section that failed back into operation. (due to it taking weeks to cool down to -270 degrees C !!)
So on the 10th they are going for it...
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haha i like that approach
haha i like that approach
yup, thats my philosphy at work too
close my eyes, cross my fingers then squeeze my butt cheeks together and hope it all goes alright the first time
luckily I`m not an ATC or anything like that
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-270C...must be a great place for extreme overclocking
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No they're not.
They abandoned the "testing" phase due to the fact if anything went wrong it would take months to get any section that failed back into operation. (due to it taking weeks to cool down to -270 degrees C !!)
So on the 10th they are going for it...
They're colliding TeV beams on the 10th? What's your source?
No they're not.
They abandoned the "testing" phase due to the fact if anything went wrong it would take months to get any section that failed back into operation. (due to it taking weeks to cool down to -270 degrees C !!)
So on the 10th they are going for it...
That is far from a professional approach, wouldn't it be better if something went wrong testing rather than with the actual experiment, i mean,what's the rush? We've waited millions of years to try and find Higgs Bosum, another couple of months won't make a difference. i read / heard that they were only using lead particles to begin with then they were to start smashing atoms in October some time.
Professor Brian Cox
Straight from the horses mouth on BBC iplayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dccnr
Start from 35:00 mins in...
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