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more about #lhc Roklimber: LHC well on its way A CERN bulletin dated December 14 (that's in the future!) talks about the awesome progress the LHC is making on its way to achiev... more » Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies: 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 » sallysparrow: Don't cross the beams! more » ceilingFANBOY: They are going to get it started up just in time to have it break down again until 2012. more » Sproing: Where is Swizerland? Is it near Autria? more » lightninglouie: Well hey, it may lead to the destruction of Earth, but if it means I can have a farcaster-connected dreamhouse with oceanfront views on six star syste... more » -
#madscience
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 » -
#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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#largehadroncollider
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 »
