Well, if the world didn't explode from Sneftel being wrong twice in one thread, I say "bring on the LHC."

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Does anyone know how exactly this works? I always thought the particles in a particle accelerator would move near light speed, but in the "latest news" page of LHC it is as if it takes around 15 minutes for a beam to complete a turn (that is the time between a post about the beam going all round, and the post which says "two turns!").

According to the wiki page it goes 99.9999991% of the speed of light

Quote: Original post by Sneftel
I kind of forget how the time zones work. When (eastern standard time) can we expect the world to implode?

It won't be till 2012, sorry.

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Quote: Original post by Sneftel
I kind of forget how the time zones work. When (eastern standard time) can we expect the world to implode?

It won't be till 2012, sorry.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I loved the review of this movie in one of the Belgian magazines where they always score "cultural" movies much higher than mainstream ones. The review started something like:

"John Cusack desperately tries to get his ex back. Woody Harrelson thinks like a psychotic hippie to have found a government conspiracy. And oh yeah, in the meantime the Earth's crust breaks open and the world as we know it is going to end in a spectacular way. You can't claim Hollywood's apocalypse expert doesn't have a sense of humor, though we doubt he meant it that way".

and

"Unfortunately limo driver John Cusack wasn't aware of this purge date and so his pleasure trip with his two children, ex and her new amant soon becomes a survival trip between crushing highways, collapsing skyscrapers and demolished monuments - served to you with pleasure by an overzealous computer departement"

Quote: Original post by Lode
The last I heard was that half november, the experiments would start again at LHC. It's past half november, and there has been nothing in the news about it... And if I search with Google I find only old articles about LHC.

Once the actual science starts and the pre-experiment end-of-the-world craze is over, the media is no longer interested. In fact, the end-of-the-world craze is the only reason the media was ever interested in the first place (outside of the science departments).

The sad part about it is that this no longer surprises me.

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Once the actual science starts and the pre-experiment end-of-the-world craze is over, the media is no longer interested. In fact, the end-of-the-world craze is the only reason the media was ever interested in the first place (outside of the science departments).

The sad part about it is that this no longer surprises me.

Well, that bypass has got to be build eventually, Ford. Just hitch us a ride out of here when the time comes, alright? ;)

>>Once the actual science starts and the pre-experiment end-of-the-world craze is over, the media is no longer interested. In fact, the end-of-the-world craze is the only reason the media was ever interested in the first place

theres been a few stories on the radio over the past few weeks

mainly along the lines thats its being sabotaged from the future

If our future selves wanted to stop the LHC they wouldn't send a bird with bread to do it. Why not open a mini-black hole inside a critical piece of machinery causing a massive critical failure blowing up the whole thing at the right time?

-ddn

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the latest headlines from CERN

clicky

Let it henceforth be known, that big science uses Swing.

Quote: Original post by Lode
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I loved the review of this movie in one of the Belgian magazines where they always score "cultural" movies much higher than mainstream ones. The review started something like:

"John Cusack desperately tries to get his ex back. Woody Harrelson thinks like a psychotic hippie to have found a government conspiracy. And oh yeah, in the meantime the Earth's crust breaks open and the world as we know it is going to end in a spectacular way. ... "

That must be one sweet publication, the whole focus-on-five-schmucks tact used in Hollywood apocalypse movies has always shat me to tears.

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If our future selves wanted to stop the LHC they wouldn't send a bird with bread to do it. Why not open a mini-black hole inside a critical piece of machinery causing a massive critical failure blowing up the whole thing at the right time?

The flaw with that is
A miniblackhole suddenly appear at that spot is implausible, a bagel whilst unlikely is in the realms of possibility.