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  • floridaorange
    I'm merely a humble butler
    • Dec 2005
    • 29116

    Large Hadron Collider

    Large Hadron Collider with Lisa Randall of Harvard and Kyle Cranmer of NYU


    ^click

    to watch the interview about this thing, and if you understand what they are talking about, please help a layman understand



    The tunnel inside the collider.

    After two years of delays, the Large Hadron Collider is finally up and running — and hasn't yet destroyed the universe. The 17-mile particle accelerator, based in Geneva, Switzerland, has begun smashing together subatomic particles at near-lightspeed velocities in the search for the "Higgs Boson," an elusive piece of matter also known as the "God particle." But what else will this colossal $9 billion machine do?

    It was fun while it lasted...
  • pipey
    Gold Gabber
    • Mar 2007
    • 855

    #2
    Re: Large Hadron Collider

    basically, they flick switch. beamey things smash each other in the face. Black holes are created. Our planet gets sucked in, like the proverbial golf ball and length of hose...

    bottom line is - live every moment... could be gone tomorrow...

    im taking up smoking again... jk
    Originally posted by Kamal
    Thank you Dr. Needle for attending the balloon Party

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    • floridaorange
      I'm merely a humble butler
      • Dec 2005
      • 29116

      #3
      Re: Large Hadron Collider

      ^

      According to the harvard physicist in the interview (you obviously didn't watch pipey ) black holes are harmless because for one the ones we could create are too small to do any damage and two, they decay very quickly.

      It was fun while it lasted...

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      • Homegrove
        Are you Kidding me??
        • Jun 2004
        • 2957

        #4
        Re: Large Hadron Collider

        I keep reading it Large Hardon Collider.
        Forward thinking house music

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        • 88Mariner
          My dick is smaller
          • Nov 2006
          • 7128

          #5
          Re: Large Hadron Collider

          you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky

          it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

          Am I somewhere....in the corners of your mind....

          ----PEACE-----

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          • Dhar_2
            meat and potatoes
            • Jun 2004
            • 18919

            #6
            Re: Large Hadron Collider


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            • Dhar_2
              meat and potatoes
              • Jun 2004
              • 18919

              #7
              Re: Large Hadron Collider


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              • pipey
                Gold Gabber
                • Mar 2007
                • 855

                #8
                Re: Large Hadron Collider



                nah i didnt watch, cos i was at work and it was blocked by the stupid proxy which id get fired for going around. gah. lol
                Originally posted by Kamal
                Thank you Dr. Needle for attending the balloon Party

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                • demonAfro
                  Are you Kidding me??
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 3488

                  #9
                  Re: Large Hadron Collider

                  How do you tell the difference between an interesting event and a non interesting event?

                  The amount of data that they are dealing with is just amazing.

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                  • floridaorange
                    I'm merely a humble butler
                    • Dec 2005
                    • 29116

                    #10
                    Re: Large Hadron Collider

                    I know there are a few members into physics here...was hoping they could help break down the interview or description of what the function of Hadron does into understandable pieces.

                    the amount of information this thing collects certainly is amazing in and of itself.

                    It was fun while it lasted...

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                    • demonAfro
                      Are you Kidding me??
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 3488

                      #11
                      Re: Large Hadron Collider

                      WRT that interview: I'd be wary of the journalism; it seems like they are sensationalising something they don't understand fully. If you take that out and only listen to the physicists it will probably make more sense. And the woman actually seems to be giving the clearest explanations. But I'm not really a layman

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