So what do you think?
Will it create a black hole that will vapourise the earth, or will it just be another physics experiment?
Will it create a black hole that will vapourise the earth, or will it just be another physics experiment?
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So what do you think?
Will it create a black hole that will vapourise the earth, or will it just be another physics experiment?
Will it create a black hole that will vapourise the earth, or will it just be another physics experiment?
is this something i am supposed to know about Bevan?
im scared now....
Salmon swim upstream
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It would be quite nice to know, then I could maybe not bother doing the four massive assignments I have due in the next month.
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I'll get back to you in about 8 days Bevan 
I hope
SurgeQld2008-09-02 21:21:30
I hope
SurgeQld2008-09-02 21:21:30
E + R + O
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So what do you think?
Will it create a black hole that will vapourise the earth, or will it just be another physics experiment?
Will it create a black hole that will vapourise the earth, or will it just be another physics experiment?
is this something i am supposed to know about Bevan?
im scared now....
I know nothing about physics, but something about smashing sub-atomic particles together at the speed of light and seeing what happens. Some people are trying to get an injunction put on it so its delayed, as they don't really want the end of the world to come.
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There was an article about it in Time a couple of months ago, they hope to find the Higgs Boson, the fundamental building block of particle physics, which allows seemingly massless elementary particles somehow create mass in matter.
When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!
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It's either going to be a world enlightening discovery that may lead to some very important scientific information or we'll not exist in a micron of a second!
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I thought there was a spelling mistake in the title of this thread until I Googled "Hadron". Thank god for that. I was thinking that's gotta hurt. Now I know it's a particle accelerator.
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If it did make a black hole, which I'm kinda hoping they do, the only problem would occur if Hawking is wrong and there is no such thing as Hawking Radiation, and then it'll be a long time before anything major happens, like sucking in France, because it will only be a micro black hole, it'll take a while to get big, so sorry Paulinho, those assignments will still have to be done. 
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There's several things they want to achieve.
They want to create dark matter (aka anti-matter) and then see how it reacts with matter (like a tiny Big Bang) to try and explain why there is so little dark matter in the universe.
They also want to observe the Higgs field which is a theoretical field that is used to explain why things have mass.
There's even a rap about it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/08/26/scirap126.xml
They want to create dark matter (aka anti-matter) and then see how it reacts with matter (like a tiny Big Bang) to try and explain why there is so little dark matter in the universe.
They also want to observe the Higgs field which is a theoretical field that is used to explain why things have mass.
There's even a rap about it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/08/26/scirap126.xml
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We'll find out soon enough, they're firing it up in a few weeks...
Stable micro black holes FTW.
EDIT* btw, it alreadys sucks in France Orilla... 
Milky Pisswit2008-09-03 15:47:32
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...something about smashing sub-atomic particles together at the speed of light and seeing what happens....
I hope Ferrante is not involved. He'd miss.
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...something about smashing sub-atomic particles together at the speed of light and seeing what happens....
I hope Ferrante is not involved. He'd miss.
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This Wednesday Morning NZT I believe is the test time. Well, just incase it f**ks up, it was nice knowing you all. We might not have agreed on everything, but I did value your input.
What was that song at the start of Independence Day?? "Is this is the end of the world as we know it?" were the lyrics heard!!
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Hah, maybe this is why sub-consciously i've been thinking about death and the afterlife the past few days. Because sub-consciously i know it's coming.
Too bad i never made it to 3000 posts....
Too bad i never made it to 3000 posts....
Three for me, and two for them.
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Hah, maybe this is why sub-consciously i've been thinking about death and the afterlife the past few days. Because sub-consciously i know it's coming.
Too bad i never made it to 3000 posts....
Too bad i never made it to 3000 posts....
Of all the things to not have achieved in a short life I'd like to think there are more important ones than 3000 posts???
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OMG and i never unlocked all the achievements in Team Fortress 2. the horror of it all. at least i got my lvl 70 priest all his epic raiding gear before i died.
(note the heavy sarcasm toward Nerds)
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Large Hadron Collider will be like 9/11 x 100
yes, thats 91,100!
Every week we have to worry about something thats going to finish us off- its human nature
Salmon swim upstream
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I know man has to advance his knowledge by pushing the boundaries of the unknown but at what price?
Attention Tony P. If this experiment goes drastically wrong and we're wiped out, can I have a refund on my season ticket?
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Black holes already exist on planet earth-theres one on the western side of the ROF when the nix play
ouch, ill get my coat
Salmon swim upstream
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I always thought a Black Hole was in reality the consolidated fund.
Can I borrow your coat? Teeeeaaaammmm Ammmmerica, f**k yeeeaahhh!
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LG, you share my sense of humour- and maybe my trepidation about these curious scientist cats
Same old humans, always ruining
Salmon swim upstream
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Ah yes, every time there's a nuclear explosion, there's a theoretical risk that we will all be consumed in a new sun. A bit like that old joke, two brothers, one joined the navy and went to sea and the other became the Vice President of the United States, neither were heard nor seen ever again. There was a particle accelerator and a haldron collider.....
How will we tell? I guess the web link to European football will drop out first, thus making NZ the leading footie nation after all.
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i heard a scientist on Kim hill one saturday explain the risk roughly as follows:
"It is more important from a safety point of view that urgent action is taken by governments world-wide to ban wardrobes -
because the risk of a citizen entering one and ending up in Narnia is greater than any threat posed by the collider"
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Mans last word ever heard - Oooopsss!
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This is rather disappointing. I wish more people would panic like hell a la Y2K over this LHC rubbish. I need some entertainment from morons.
Buffon II2008-09-09 22:03:35
Three for me, and two for them.
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just switch the tv on Buffy, that should tick the moron box, not sure about the entertainment aspect though
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Being of the more knowledgeable scientist variety, I just love how heaps of people think the world is going to end. Personally, I kinda hope they do make a black hole. It'll be fun.
Also, they looking for the Higgs Boson, hence the Higgs Field. Is this the new ether kind of thing?
Also, they looking for the Higgs Boson, hence the Higgs Field. Is this the new ether kind of thing?
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But team member Professor Brian Cox � once the keyboardist with pop group D:Ream � said the experiment posed no danger to the public.
"Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat," he told the Telegraph.
When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!
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http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
It's remarkably up to date.
It's remarkably up to date.
Three for me, and two for them.
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But team member Professor Brian Cox � once the keyboardist with pop group D:Ream � said the experiment posed no danger to the public.
"Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat," he told the Telegraph.
Ah well, things can only get bett-ah!
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http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
It's remarkably up to date.
It's remarkably up to date.
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It was anice day before- it made the sun cloud over- that was about it
Salmon swim upstream
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the end is nigh
just on tv3-its switched on in an hour
just on tv3-its switched on in an hour
Salmon swim upstream
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We're still here?? Although I gather it's meant to reach it's peak between 10 & 11 tonight.
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We've had a black hole at right back for most of our existence.
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We're still here?? Although I gather it's meant to reach it's peak between 10 & 11 tonight.
Keep watching that website LG. It'll tell you when we're doomed.
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Well it happened and I'm still here. Bugger.
When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!
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