Large Hadron Collider

helmet said:
Kind of answers my point too, there would be no orbit vehicle with the amount of bandwith to transmit back anything like that amount of traffic.


What's the chances that the first few collisions produce some new type of energy/matter that rips right through those detectors?
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The main problem with an orbital design is the atmosphere, any by products from the collision would be absorbed by the atmosphere before they got anywhere near the detector. In the LHC the atmosphere has been almost completely removed. I believe it's at a similar level to the atmosphere of the moon.

Also you need a lot of collisions occurring at a known location in order to record enough data to see what the products are released, much of the byproducts will just pass straight through the detector without interacting.
 
yak.h'cir said:
The main problem with an orbital design is the atmosphere, any by products from the collision would be absorbed by the atmosphere before they got anywhere near the detector. In the LHC the atmosphere has been almost completely removed. I believe it's at a similar level to the atmosphere of the moon.
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The internal pressure of the LHC is 10^13atm, ten times less than the pressure on the Moon!
 
Clearly they're a mature bunch of engineers. I know I'd be tempted to see what happened if two pasties were to 'accidentally' get be placed inside and then shot at each other at a bajillion MPH.
 
danza said:
Clearly they're a mature bunch of engineers. I know I'd be tempted to see what happened if two pasties were to 'accidentally' get be placed inside and then shot at each other at a bajillion MPH.
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The force of the pasty smashification, would cause every woman on the planet to become pregnant with Gordan freeman's children.
 
danza said:
Clearly they're a mature bunch of engineers. I know I'd be tempted to see what happened if two pasties were to 'accidentally' get be placed inside and then shot at each other at a bajillion MPH.
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Too right, in my first practical at uni I quickly discovered that I was useless at building circuits and that the chips got extremely hot/popped when wired incorrectly. We spent several hours trying to build some stupid circuit and it just wouldn't work. Whilst checking it over for the 50th time I noticed one chip in particular was definitely wrong and I could feel the heat coming off it from a few cm away. Feeling the need to relieve the frustration/annoyance I rather childishly asked my parter to check it, knowing full well she'd just instinctively touch it with her finger to check the temp. There was an audible sizzle soon followed by the loudest scream i've ever heard. :(
 
starfighter said:
Please go here and back me up..

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5325&edition=1&ttl=20080910211058

I want to cry after reading some of the stupid posts.

"I think it is all a waste of money n that the goverment could have spent that money on something worthwhile n they dnt have the right to take over the role of god and this wont change anyones life and it wont prove any think becauses no matter what people r still going to belive that god created the universes and have there belives. also they have worried a lot of people at my school they all thought they was going to die !!!!!!


WHAT A WASTE !!!!"

:(, why is the people against it are either from the god squad or can't spell?
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Been reading a few of the replies myself and you really have to despair sometimes :(

'What a wates of money to find out something which didn't happen, when you can buy a Bible for under a fiver and read the truth of how the world was created.

jane, kingswinford'
 
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