Large Hadron Collider

[Power Metal Dom]

One week til the Higgs Boson isn't found!



http://www.lhcountdown.com/

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Like flames on fuel...upon metal I drool

[househunter]

And one week until the Universe isn't destroyed.

[Hennessy]

One week until £5 billion isn't well-spent at all.

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"What happened to Spoon?"
"There is no Spoon"
Dog Soldiers

[Haunted]

Best get back to the trees then.

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Now with 100% more corn

[Raindance]

Quoting Haunted from 16:15, 31st Jul 2008
Best get back to the trees then.

I call the top branch!

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I'm only here because b3ta is broken.

[lts2]

I'm quite excited really!

[Gubbins]

Quoting Power_Metal_Dom from 13:29, 31st Jul 2008
One week til the Higgs Boson isn't found!

And 10 years until they tell us it isn't.

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...then again, that is only my opinion.

[Power Metal Dom]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Test_timeline

I think they switched it on yesterday. But I don't think they did any particle smashing. They might be in late October.

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Like flames on fuel...upon metal I drool

[Andy Monkey B]

Watch here for the live text updates:

http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdes ... ldyet.com/

[Senethro]

Quoting Hennessy from 16:04, 31st Jul 2008
One week until £5 billion isn't well-spent at all.

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"What happened to Spoon?"
"There is no Spoon"
Dog Soldiers

Sometimes, one has to spend money on things other than ways to make more money.

[Tlomiew]

To be honest, if the world does end, I can help think everything being turned into a giant lump of strange matter would be a heck of a lot cooler that simple nuclear armageddon.

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In this world there is a pie
A pie where topics go to die
And when they die they leave this place
The twisted world of the human race

[pete-the-meat]

Quoting Senethro from 13:35, 12th Sep 2008

Quoting Hennessy from 16:04, 31st Jul 2008
One week until £5 billion isn't well-spent at all.

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"What happened to Spoon?"
"There is no Spoon"
Dog Soldiers

Sometimes, one has to spend money on things other than ways to make more money.

like international aid?

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LV17261.htm

International aid is a thing of such monolithic proportions that simply channelling funding from scientific research into even more aid for whatever country/group/charity would not necessarily benefit more people. Besides which, there are certain pressing matters on this planet which can only hope to be solved through scientific research.

You left-wing bleeding-heart hippy

[orudge]

Anyone been watching the webcam?

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

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http://standrews.facebook.com/profile.php?id=37103734

[Senethro]

Its fucking science, ok? Its an end in itself. You do enough of it and eventually something good will come of it. Its not mutually exclusive with feeding starving black AIDS babies.

[kparis]

plus the applications of discoveries found should, in time justify the money spent here. Take the space program for instance - lots of offshoots which we wouldnt live without today.

[YouAreNotAScientist]

Hopefully science will one day find a way to get that sand out of your vagina. Oh wait...what about a DOUCHE.

[Thackary]

What does that even mean?

[Super Jock]

What bugs me was the amount of people thinking the world was going to end. I think this in the grand scheme of Fusion, Quantum, and a million others is a very boring not very risky experiment. But in a 100 years when we're say mining the asteroid belt. This will be the boring step that gave us a step towards anti matter to matter propulsion. It's only because the press told people who have no idea what the fuck anyones on about that we're building something big that they actually tried to petition for it to not get turned on.

Heck I like religion though I may be far from it myself. But I hate it when people allow it to get in the way of thinking. I'll understand why the muttering masses will be against things like abortion and human cloning. But I don't think I read anywhere in the bible that says "thou shall not smash particles together."

The cost argument i can understand, but there's millions of experiments that cost a lot and don't get us anywhere. Like the moon landing. Relatively this doesn't cost much more, but this will give us something in the long run besides an awesome quote and a few conspiracy theorists

[Haunted]

Read and weep
http://forums.wnd.com/index.php?pageId= ... wResults=1


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