• 2009 to date

    Five Lessons To Have Learned From 2009 Already

    With the middle of the year having fallen earlier this week (July 2nd for the curious), it's time to take stock, look back and wonder: What has 2009 taught us so far? More »
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  • mad science

    Daily Show Explains Why There's A 50/50 Chance Of Apocalypse

    Last night's Daily Show revealed the horrible truth behind the dangers posed by the Large Hadron Collider... as well as introducing a whole new way of calculating probability. Thank God someone's explaining science so simply.
    05/01/09
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    Comment by Citizen Kang: You know...I'm one of those people who thinks that the sad state of education in the United States is, for... 19 Responses | Other threads

  • large hadron collider

    Black Holes Could Be Brewing Under Switzerland by Late 2009

    Sounds like repairs are going swimmingly on the world's most gigantic physics experiment, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Last year, a pipe broke in the newly-built facility, spilling tons of liquid helium everywhere and setting back the experiment by over a year. But now it looks as if we'll be seeing data starting to roll in from the facility in the next 10 months. Can't wait for those beams to create a black hole! Erm, I mean to help us understand quantum particles. More »
    02/06/09
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    Comment by corpore-metal: You know, if it will put an end to silly headlines about the LHC, I hope it really does trigger... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • big science

    Will the Global Economic Crisis Kill the Large Hadron Collider?

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest physics experiment, was all set to start up a few months ago - its miles of underground tunnels would provide answers to deep physics questions about the nature of everything from atoms to black holes. And then it broke. Big time. Six tons of ultra-cold liquid helium spilled into one of the tunnels after an electrical failure. Now Nature reports that repairs will cost $21 million, and the vast facility hasn't even gone online yet. Can a shrinking global economy support the LHC? More »
    11/17/08
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    Comment by evildead1971: if they turn it on and it ends the world, our economic problems are solved :D 4 Responses | Other threads

  • Kirill

    Bloggers Are The Heroes Of The Future. No, Really.

    Yet another bizarre webseries has hit the net, but this one has a big budget and a real actor. MSN UK has debuted a miniseries called Kirill, about a heroic blogger 50 years in the future who tries to save us all from a horrendous disaster. The blogger's played by David Schofield (Gladiator, Pirates Of The Caribbean), and a staff of 50 people worked on Kirill for six months. But is it any good? See for yourself — the first episode is below. More »
    11/10/08
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    Comment by Alexis Brown: John Titor much? Anyways,I love to see the budding "film" industry on the interwebs. I think it's a great place... 5 Responses | Other threads

  • lhc

    Zathura Boys Want to Make Large Hadron Collider The Movie

    It's the first in what I'm sure is going to be a long line of Large Hadron Collider-themed movies to come. Screenwriters David Koepp and John Kamps (Ghost Town, Zathura) are excited about teaming up to work on a LHC story called The Superconducting Supercollider of Sparkle Creek, Wisconsin. Their plot sounds a lot more solid than my pitch about a little LHC who moves to the big city with big city dreams and learns a valuable lesson before shooting a black hole into the center of the Earth and killing us all. More »
    09/25/08
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    Comment by Illogic: No. The movie about the LHC is Event Horizon 2: Hell on Earth. This has been decided by the might... 3 Responses | Other threads

  • wanted: an end to science

    Hollywood's New Player Declares War On Science

    He may be the most buzzed about figure of the geek movement right now, but that doesn't mean that Wanted and Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar doesn't have an unhealthy fear of science. Enough of one to call for a "jihad" on everyone behind the Large Hadron Collider, in fact. Well, he was getting to be a little too accepted by the mainstream, after all. More »
    09/22/08
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    Comment by steampoweredboy: I do believe that Mark Millar is, as our British cousins like to say "taking the piss". He's done this... 4 Responses | Other threads

  • mega accidents

    LHC Shut Down After a Ton of Liquid Helium Leaks into Tunnel

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the mega-physics experiment in Switzerland where atomic particles will be smashed into each other, has been shut down. The BBC reports that a fault opened up in one of the underground tunnels this morning, releasing one ton of liquid helium into the tunnels. This in turn caused 100 supercooled magnets crucial to LHC experiments to heat up and fail (the liquid helium is what keeps the magnets cool). After the successful first startup of the LHC last week, does this mean it could be months or years before another beam gets shot through the vast underground structure? More »
    09/19/08
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    Comment by Erinaceus: I just read on another site that the LHC malfunction was minor...this sounds more serious. I hope it doesn't derail... 6 Responses | Other threads

  • geek chic

    LHC-Themed T-Shirts Commemorate the Non-Destruction of Earth

    Now that the Large Hadron Collider has been switched on and the world remains more or less intact, Hadron-mania has gripped the Internet. LHC enthusiasts check the status of Earth's destruction, view Collider porn, and, of course, commemorate the event itself with clever t-shirts. If you're looking for the perfect gift for the particle physicist in your life, consider one of these tees, which play largely on irrational fears of the LHC and the obvious implications of a certain typographical error. More »
    09/13/08
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    Comment by Kronocide: Now that the Large Hadron Collider has been switched on and the world remains more or less intact... But have... 3 Responses | Other threads

  • torchwood

    And You Thought Torchwood Couldn't Get Any Worse!

    We warned them their experiment could wreck everything, but they wouldn't listen. The BBC were determined to push foward with the godforsaken experiment of putting Torchwood on the radio, in defiance of all the laws of physics and common sense. Did the universe implode? Well, no. Did we wish it would, so we could stop listening to this piffle? Kind of. We heard the special Large Hadron Collider-themed Torchwood radio episode... and lived. Maybe. Radio spoilers ahead. More »
    09/10/08
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    Comment by Neon: Other then nosey martha, i enjoyed that ALOT. IO9 REALLY needs to lay off the Who/torchwood hate 7 Responses | Other threads

  • large hadron collider

    What Will Happen When the LHC Turns On? 10 Scifi Stories Have the Answer

    Today the mad physicists over at Swiss lab CERN will turn on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and begin the physics experiments that might end the world. While some fringe scientists worry that the LHC will destroy the fabric of spacetime, the rest of us armchair physicists are on the edge of our seats waiting to see what the giant underground magnet will tell us about, well, the universe. Lucky for us, science fiction has already come up with an answer. We've come up with ten crazy scifi tales where physics experiments destroy the world. More »
    09/10/08
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    Comment by Shell_Krackerश्रमण: Or maybe Black Mesa? 13 Responses | Other threads

  • large hadron kegger

    The Large Hadron Collider Drinking Game

    You may have noticed that io9 is pretty into the Large Hadron Collider. Not only does it look awesome, it does amazing science at the cutting edge of physics that could fundamentally change our understanding of the universe itself. Plus, it gives us all these sexy sci-fi things to think about, like other dimensions, exotic particles and even the apocalypse (even if scientists say there's nothing to worry about). So if you plan on hanging out with other science-loving geeks like us to celebrate the LHC's activation this week, you'll definitely want to check out our LHC drinking game. More »
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    Comment by Brando9: Doesn't it cross the boarder 4 times, and at a rate of 11,000 per second, with a stream of 2,808... 4 Responses | Other threads

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    Anyone Who Thinks the LHC Will Destroy the World is a T***

    Particle physics professor Brian Cox of the University of Manchester has pretty much the final word on Large Hadron Collider fear-mongering with the above quote. What prompted such an outburst? Death threats against scientists working on the LHC. Perhaps an even better question - what does "t***" stand for? More »
    09/06/08
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    Comment by RJG2008: I realize it's a lot of fun for "people of science" to insult all of us "ignorant" "naysayers" and "brain-dead"... 1 Responses | Other threads

  • large hadron collider

    Instruction Manual for Large Hadron Collider Online

    Want to know more about how to end the world by shooting atomic particles through a gigantic, underground loop full of magnets in Switzerland? Then we've got the book for you: It's the 1500-page instruction manual for operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will officially start operation in mid-September. I guess if the world does get sucked into a black hole when scientists start the machine, it will be useful to have this around so aliens can reverse-engineer the LHC and figure out what happened. [via Hackaday]
    08/26/08
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    Comment by fistrodisco: From Discovery Channel, in all probability (you know, the "don't let truth ruin the possibility of inserting a ludicrously bad... more » | Other threads

  • mad physics

    First Particle Beam to Shoot Through the Large Hadron Collider Tomorrow

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will smash up its its first proton beams this weekend in a test, arousing the fears of conspiracy lovers everywhere. If you'll recall, the LHC is that super-mega physics experiment in Switzerland's CERN Lab that some believe might destroy the world by producing black holes. Above, you can see a visualization of how large the facility is, as it loops under the ground outside Geneva. So what's in store tomorrow when the first beams start circling? More »
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    Comment by Magnum90: anyone else find it ironic that the end of the world may be caused in the same place they set... more » | Other threads

  • physics porn

    What Light Through Yonder Laboratory Breaks? It Is the East, and the Large Hadron Collider Is the Sun

    Some say it might destroy the world, and others say it looks just like the Stargate, but you and I know the blazing glory that is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is just going to do a few little things to change our whole conception of reality. You know, like smashing protons together to recreate the conditions that prevailed in the universe right after the Big Bang. Here you can see the outer barrel of the LHC's compact muon solenoid experiment, which will examine what's happening in an energy region known as the "terascale." Which sounds totally Marvel Comics. Peek below for more hot proton-on-proton action. More »
    08/02/08
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    Comment by ZetaCrossfire: WERE ALL GONA DIE! more » | Other threads

  • mad science

    The Truth About Microscopic Black Holes and the Utter Destruction of Earth

    Science fiction is rife with tales of experiments that run out of control and blow up the planet or exterminate all life or something. Maybe that's why two U.S. researchers sued the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), trying to get an injunction that would prevent them from building their Large Hadron Collider. Their reason? Concern that it would create an apocalyptic mini-black hole here on Earth. Many debated whether their fears were pure cranksterism or held a grain of truth. Now a physics professor has researched the issue and discovered the truth about the LHC's inherent risks to all humanity. More »
    07/02/08
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    Comment by Michael42: Three score and ten years ago Albert Einstein tried to tell the scientists of the day that event horizons were... more » | Other threads

  • lost

    Lost Destroys Spacetime, Celebrates Science

    Is Lost about to destroy the very nature of time, space and reality itself when it explains how Ben managed to get off the island recently? That's the theory from Popular Mechanics magazine after they looked into the real life science behind what they call "the first mainstream TV show since Mr. Wizard to make science cool again." More »
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    Comment by cljohnston108: @brentbent: Only problem with that: Folks in the Mirror Universe aren't really into saving others. Other than that - Great theory! more » | Other threads

  • triviagasm

    The Large Hadron Collider Will Gobble Up The Earth (Or Maybe Just France)

    The Large Hadron Collider at the CERN research facility near Geneva, Switzerland won't be going on a luau in Hawaii anytime soon, since the state is suing to stop the activation of the enormous research project. Yes, it's not just individual wackos who believe the LHC will unleash a cosmic ass-whooping on the planet. An actual state is suing the builders to keep them from activating it. They fear it'll let loose runaway miniature black holes, strangelets, or magnetic monopoles that will destroy the planet. The researchers at CERN have spent their precious time trying to assure people that won't happen, although it would be kind of cool if it did. We've got the strange and winding history of this project in today's Triviagasm. More »
    04/14/08
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    Comment by jtankers: Is Hawking Radiation real? 2008 ... this prediction is not without its problems... no very good responses to these concerns... completely... more » | Other threads

  • cosmology

    Is Dark Energy the New Aether?

    You may think physics has changed over the past 200 years, but it hasn't. Today, theoretical physicists can't understand why the universe is expanding at an observed rate that doesn't quite mesh with general relativity. Back in the 19th century, theoretical physicists couldn't understand how electromagnetic energy and gravity could propagate through empty space. The proposed solution in both cases was the same: there must some stuff out there that we can't see, yet affects the entire universe. In the past, that substance was aether. Is today's dark energy the modern equivalent? More »
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    Comment by jtankers: Professor Dr. Otto E. Roessler estimates 50 months Earth accretion time from a single micro black hole captured by Earth's... more » | Other threads

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