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Science The Hadron Collider Is Working
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:54 AM
We are still here...
The world has not been swallowed by a manmade black hole....
Alarmists take note: The planet is intact after particles began smashing into each other at the Large Hadron Collider today.Humans must behave like humans, not like monkeys. Enough said.For the first time, the $10 billion machine circulated two proton beams simultaneously in its 17-mile tunnel underneath the border between France and Switzerland.
This is a major step toward finding the answers to fundamental physics questions about the nature of matter in the universe, and how the world as we know it began.
One more word: It looks like the future failed to prevent this amazing experiment.
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The universe didn't change overnight, thankfully.
Palin is still president, JFK survived that heart attack (I always thought he'd go before Elvis did, but here we are, 1 year later, and Kennedy is still around!), and Marie Osmond is still the number-one selling female artist of all time.
Palin is still president, JFK survived that heart attack (I always thought he'd go before Elvis did, but here we are, 1 year later, and Kennedy is still around!), and Marie Osmond is still the number-one selling female artist of all time.
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The LHC is only operating at energies which have already been reached by Tevatron, i.e. ~0.5 TeV. They only expect it to be up to half throttle next year so there is still plenty of potential to not destroy the earth ;-)
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Soooooo...since it was designed to find phenomena such as "God Particles" and messages from the future and other Standard Model esoterica...it failed.
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Even at full power, nothing will happen in that collider that doesn't happen zillions of times a day in the upper atmosphere as particles spewed out from the sun collide with the air. The "time is bending to prevent it" theory was cool, but flawed for that reason.
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Imagine if someone was going to launch a spaceship that would travel faster than the speed of light. I can just imagine the total TERROR of the know-nothings screaming that we're all going to die in some huge human made anomily that will destroy the galaxie.
Humans don't progress because humans are scared shitless.
Humans don't progress because humans are scared shitless.
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@1:
Funny, I just read a play that had a very similar outcome - JFK was still alive in 1968 and Bobby was president; all because a minor off-stage character in Romeo & Juliet was given a more prominent role.
And besides, IF the LHC HAD somehow altered the space-time continuum, and we WERE in an alternate time-line, how would we even know?
@6:
SOME humans are scared shitless. Some OTHER humans would be lining up to volunteer to go on that flight.
Funny, I just read a play that had a very similar outcome - JFK was still alive in 1968 and Bobby was president; all because a minor off-stage character in Romeo & Juliet was given a more prominent role.
And besides, IF the LHC HAD somehow altered the space-time continuum, and we WERE in an alternate time-line, how would we even know?
@6:
SOME humans are scared shitless. Some OTHER humans would be lining up to volunteer to go on that flight.
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Maybe it has, and we just can't tell the difference, as we continue on in a parallel universe.
Just sayin'
Just sayin'
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"The particle collisions are finally happening despite discredited theories that the accelerator could produce a black hole that could swallow the universe, and that it is being sabotaged from the future. Read more about these theories"
Weren't those joke theories put forth by the scientists working on the project? I know that was the case with the "sabotage from the future" theory.
Weren't those joke theories put forth by the scientists working on the project? I know that was the case with the "sabotage from the future" theory.
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