Teh Internets Q: Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet?
posted by September 10 at 17:28 PM
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The page source on that's pretty funny, too.
my new favorite website ever.
Gotta put that on my RSS feed...
I appreciate that it's RSS'd, so I don't even have to visit the page: my aggregator will tell me when the world has ended. Very considerate of them.
That's not the result I'm seei -
The source on this one is funnier:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com
if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) {
document.write("YUP.");
} else {
document.write("NOPE.");
}
I love a hot physicist.
What if it does, and we don't know, because we're in a parallel universe somehow?
Don't make a typo on that name.
@10, is LargeHardonCollider.com taken yet?
Check back in a month or two, when they switch from just accelerating particles to actually smashing them together. That's when you should start obsessively clicking the refresh button.
Screw the collider -- I can bend light with my ass!
@12: You know those exact same collisions happen in our atmosphere more or less constantly anyway, right? The LHC just collides them under such circumstances as to allow physicists to easily observe them.
http://xkcd.com/474/
Make sure to read the roll-over. . .
Good thing we made a back up copy of the world first.
You did realize that, didn't you?
We're all clones. Yes, we all are. Every one.
According to the website:
No.
No, it hasn't.
@14 - I wonder why no one's even brought that point up in all the coverage about the LHC. Certainly, the LHC is going to be producing a LOT of high energy collisions. However, according to wikipedia (yeah, I know) with a reference to Space Science Reviews, a real, peer-reviewed journal, cosmic rays with an energy ~10 times what the LHC will work at hit every square meter of earth each second.
Cosmic Rays
@18: Nobody's brought it up because news headlines like "PARTICLE ACCELERATOR MAY OPEN BLACK HOLE, SWALLOW EARTH" are more exciting than reality. To be honest, I think most Americans put too much stock in "spatial anomalies," "theta radiation," and other crap they learned about from science fiction (though they'd be loathe to admit it, 'cause scifi's for unsocialized nerds of course) - and I say that as a devout Trekkie. It's just TV, people.
It has, but no one noticed because the universe was instantly replaced by a new one that is EXACTLY THE SAME!
You will know this is true if McCain wins.
i've been extrememly fascinated,watching the Haldron livefeed webacm: i really recoomend checking out the link: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
@21 - Brilliant!
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