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more about #largehadroncollider more comments → Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake.: In a last minute press release, the varied members of the science community directly involved in the CERN project shocked the world with their real g... more » bluehinter: Right, it's decided then, we consult Holly. more » gorehound: this stuff is very interesting. more » OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: Did you guys feel something? more » Twisk: It will still be a while before the LHC can go fishing for the Higgs boson. ...like how long? A couple years? Should we expect results around, saaa... more » spidyredneckjedi: Well, there goes the neighborhood. And the adjacent neighborhood... more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I can see exactly whats going to happen here! The protons will collide and create a black hole. The hole will get bigger and bigger until it eventuall... more » Gemini2: This is how the world should end. more » jrnotjunior: how can you drop "the suggestion that the Large Hadron Collider is being sabotaged from the future" into an article and not provide a link?? more » ManchuCandidate: We're still here? Take that future! more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: My favorite LHC cartoon. more » Gemini2: That explains my on-going feeling of déjà vu...It's like I wrote this before and I am doing it again.... nothing could have gone wrong...Right? Tha... more » omgwtflolbbqbye: When i skimmed the excerpt i read it as "... Said CERN general director, rofl" more » Kitradu: If I collide my proton beam with another proton beam people scream I have the gay. If CERN does it it's "science." Guess that flying kitty was right. more » crashedpc - Haifisch: Fools, you never cross the str- damnit, those are beams. And just you wait, they're going to find the Figgs-Bozo particle first. more » -
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Undeterred by Time-Traveling Saboteurs, the LHC Begins Colliding
Take that, bread-dropping bird. Despite numerous delays and the suggestion that the Large Hadron Collider is being sabotaged from the future, the LHC is up and running. And, for the very first time, it has collided two proton beams. More » -
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All Systems Go For Large Hadron Collider - Stay Tuned for Collisions!
Discover has a blow-by-blow account of today's tests on the Large Hadron Collider, the massive physics experiment that will eventually recreate the conditions during the Big Bang. Everything worked perfectly. Get ready for particle collisions next week! [via Discover] -
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Large Hadron Collider Less Than Two Weeks Away From First Experiments
It's been plagued by everything from liquid helium leaks to wayward baguettes, but the mega-physics experiment known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is finally ready to start smashing protons into each other. Particle collisions could begin in two weeks. More » -
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Bird-Related Accident Suggests the Large Hadron Collider Really Is Doomed
The LHC has been so plagued by problems and shutdowns that some physicists have wondered if it's being sabotaged by its own future. And the LHC has fallen victim to another bizarre shutdown involving a bird and a baguette. More » -
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Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from the Future?
What if all the Large Hadron Collider's recent woes are more than bad luck and technical problems? Two noted physicists speculate that the future may be pushing back on the LHC to avert the disaster of observing the Higgs boson. More » -
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Is The Large Hadron Collider Cursed?
The discovery of new repairs necessary to the Large Hadron Collider have pushed its restart date yet again - Are there cosmic powers trying to tell us something about the program? More » -
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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?
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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. -
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#megaaccidents
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 » -
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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 » -
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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 »
