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Which one?

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21) Your fave personal submission - The Americans
22) A great comment on one of your vids - We've boosted the Large Hadron Collider...
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37) Children - no
38) Ever had an operation - been put back together several times
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If you could...what, who, when etc

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46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - What newspapers does Palin read?
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48) Be president for one hour - End the war.
49) Delete a period in history - JFK Assassination
50) Achieve one thing - inner peace

^a LHC (little hadron collider)?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'time travel, future, fusion, ITER, global warming, hadron, quantum' to 'time travel, future, fusion, ITER, global warming, hadron, quantum, physics' - edited by kronosposeidon

We've boosted the Large Hadron Collider...

I do feel a bit heavier, but I suspect that is caused by more local factors.

In reply to this comment by my15minutes:
so, is it me? or do you also feel a little heavier since last week?

anyway, i needed to make one small correction, below your celestial comment...
extremely small correction. 3 pixels, by 2 pixels, by 1 pixel.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Reminds me of 2010 when Europa implodes to make a star.

so, is it me? or do you also feel a little heavier since last week?

anyway, i needed to make one small correction, below your celestial comment...
extremely small correction. 3² pixels, by 2² pixels, by 1 pixel.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Reminds me of 2010 when Europa implodes to make a star.

yahweh's return!

righteous fire and brimstone!

simultaneous demonspawn radiation, and implosion!

dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria!

and you broke the fucking internets, dillhole!

>> ^aspartam:
Brian Cox is awesome. I was smitten by him ever since since he explained LHC at TED. What a well spoken young man. Kids should idolize him instead of Lil'Wayne or Whomeverisinthechartsnowadays.


Right on, here is that talk, by the way http://www.videosift.com/video/Brian-Cox-at-TEDtalks-on-the-Large-Hadron-Collider

Man's technology has exceeded his grasp. - 'The World is not Enough'
Zealous Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed 'Higgs Boson'(aka God) Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life in endless experiments hoping to prove a theory when urgent tangible problems face the planet. The European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN) new Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world's most powerful atom smasher that will soon be firing subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to create Miniature Big Bangs producing Micro Black Holes, Strangelets and other potentially cataclysmic phenomena.
Particle physicists have run out of ideas and are at a dead end forcing them to take reckless chances with more and more powerful and costly machines to create new and never-seen-before, unstable and unknown matter while Astrophysicists, on the other hand, are advancing science and knowledge on a daily basis making new discoveries in these same areas by observing the universe, not experimenting with it and with your life.
The LHC is a dangerous gamble as CERN physicist Alvaro De Rújula in the BBC LHC documentary, 'The Six Billion Dollar Experiment', incredibly admits quote, "Will we find the Higgs particle at the LHC? That, of course, is the question. And the answer is, science is what we do when we don't know what we're doing." And CERN spokesmodel Brian Cox follows with this stunning quote, "the LHC is certainly, by far, the biggest jump into the unknown."
The CERN-LHC website Mainpage itself states: "There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions,..." Again, this is because they truly don't know what's going to happen. They are experimenting with forces they don't understand to obtain results they can't comprehend. If you think like most people do that 'They must know what they're doing' you could not be more wrong. Some people think similarly about medical Dr.s but consider this by way of comparison and example from JAMA: "A recent Institute of Medicine report quoted rates estimating that medical errors kill between 44,000 and 98,000 people a year in US hospitals." The second part of the CERN quote reads "...but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator,..." A molecularly changed or Black Hole consumed Lifeless World? The end of the quote reads "...as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe." These experiments to date have so far produced infinitely more questions than answers but there isn't a particle physicist alive who wouldn't gladly trade his life to glimpse the "God particle", and sacrifice the rest of us with him. Reason and common sense will tell you that the risks far outweigh any potential(as CERN physicists themselves say) benefits.
This quote from National Geographic exactly sums this "science" up: "That's the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out."
Find out more about that "stuff" below;
http://www.SaneScience.org/
http://www.LHCFacts.org
http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon1.htm
http://www.lhcdefense.org/
http://www.lhcconcerns.com
Popular Mechanics - "World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle'" - http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4216588.html"

>> ^gemini70:
Question: If you were in a black hole, would you know it? Doesn't time stop?


The time destortion would make it seem like everything was fine for you. But, the gravity would rip and streched you apart. This is the main princible of string cheese theroy in particle physics

The team was holding its breath in the countdown to the switch-on after a series of technical hitches, including problems with the cooling system.

The switch-on saw the first stream of subatomic particles - known as Hadrons - circulating in the tunnel. The first collisions are expected in around 30 days.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/09/10/scicern210.xml

TomMmorRrow!, 9/10, will be etched in people's minds. We will then enter the completely changed post-9/10 world..
Let's pre-emptively create the Wikipedia article,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=9/10&action=edit
before it's too late..

"The first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008."

Videos about the LHC:
http://www.videosift.com/playlists/Eklek/Large-Hadron-Collider

>> ^hueco_tanks:
We can smash protons together at near light speed in hopes of resolving the grand unified theory, but still no personal jetpacks! I was promised jetpacks! Why not put 8,000 physicists to work on something I can use!


$200,000 my friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_pack

In reply to this comment by EDD:
^ CONCERNING STRANGELETS:

First of all, strangelets are merely hypothetical type of matter. None have so far been observed or produced. We would see some corrution of Neutron stars more often if the stuff was actual and not theoretical. Lambda particles I think have happened, but they decay so fast it is not really a subject of much fear mongering

Secondly, the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) in the US has been working for 8 years now and no strangelets have been produced there. In comparison, LHC collisions will have more energy, thus making it even less probable a strangelet might form (equivalent would be ice forming in boiling water). In addition, LHC quarks will be even more dilute than at RHIC.

Read this study on RHIC by MIT, Yale and Princeton physicists to find out more.


"It is believed that the higher energy of the lead-lead collisions of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), compared to the RHIC, will produce more strange quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) than are produced at RHIC's QGP. This higher production of strange quarks might allow for production of a strangelet at the LHC, and searches are planned for such upon commencement of collisions at the LHC ALICE detector."

"Angelis et al., "Model of Centauro and strangelet production in heavy ion collisions", Phys. Atom. Nucl. 67:396-405 (2004) arXiv:nucl-th/0301003 "

I thought that was an interesting read on the subject. It's all theoretical though, so far, we haven't really seen the stuff at all.

Sorry for the long gap between posts, the hurricane messed with my normal routine.

>> ^EDD:
^ Those collisions planned at LHC have no - that's ZERO, NIL, NONE, NOUGHT, NADA, ZIP - risk of creating micro black holes unless one supplements the standard model of particle physics with several extensions that factor in the possibility of extra spatial dimensions which these micro black holes might originate from. And even then those very same extensions lead one to conclude that the decay on those mbhs due to Hawking radiation would have them existing (and not in a manner in which they can do ANY harm) for a matter of seconds at the outside.
So whoever made this video - DIAF. That's right - you should die in a freaking fire for attempting to induce mass hysteria based on your complete fucking ignorance.


Wasn't there also a fear of that strange matter (quark matter) in the form of Strangelets being created as well?

"Clearly this potential risk is based on speculative theories. But
these theories were constructed to explore real possibilities. The probability
that they are correct is not negligible."

R. Plaga a
aFranzstr. 40, D-53111 Bonn, Germany

Quantum black holes are in principle unstable, i.e. they evaporate because
no conserved quantum number forbids them to do so. However, it is well
known that their Hawking luminosity is strongly suppressed with respect to
semiclassical expectations for black-hole masses below the Planck mass in
4 space-time dimensions.