big bang experiment

[ilovetoshoot12345 0]

what do you all think will happen??

[BlueCoyote 0]

the scientists seem pretty confident it will have no ill effects....

but they've been wrong before!

 

best to say your prayers now just in case lol

[mackem 23,876]

Hope the world ends,I went out earlier today and splashed the last of my cash on alcohol-fuelled fornication

[speedlamper 0]

a big sign is gonna pop up in the sky saying

 

LEVEL 1 COMPLETE

proceed to level 2

[Malt 379]

I'm still waiting to be sucked off into a black hole, I don't get it at home any more......

[BlueCoyote 0]

what exactly are they doing anyway? and for what purpose?

[ilovetoshoot12345 0]

what exactly are they doing anyway? and for what purpose?

 

there coliding particles just under the speed of light together to try and simulate the big bang lol i dont understand it either, there just dicing with death lol.

[ilovetoshoot12345 0]

what exactly are they doing anyway? and for what purpose?

 

there coliding particles just under the speed of light together to try and simulate the big bang lol i dont understand it either, there just dicing with death lol.

Smashing Big Bang experiment gets turned on

By Robert Evans

 

GENEVA (Reuters) - Physicists around the world, some in pyjamas and others with champagne, celebrated the first tests on Wednesday of a huge particle-smashing machine they hope will simulate the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

 

Experiments using the underground Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, the biggest and most complex machine ever made, could revamp modern physics and unlock secrets about the universe and its origins.

 

Staff in the control room on the border of Switzerland and France clapped as two beams of particles were sent silently first one way and then the other around the LHC's 17-mile (27-km) underground chamber.

 

"Things can go wrong at any time," said project leader Lyn Evans, who wore jeans and running shoes for the LHC's debut.

 

"But this morning we had a great start."

 

It will be weeks or months before two particles ever crash together in the giant tube, and even longer before scientists can interpret results, said Jos Engelen, chief scientific officer of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

 

"Anything between a year and four years, depending on how difficult this new physics is to find," Engelen said.

 

Pyjama-clad scientists calling themselves "Nerds in Nightshirts" partied at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois as they waited late into the night for the first signals from the 10 billion Swiss franc (5 billion pound) machine.

 

The first blip came soon after the LHC was switched on at 9:30 a.m. CERN time, 1:30 a.m. in Batavia, home of the Tevatron, which still lays claim to being the highest energy particle collider until the LHC starts colliding protons.

 

THE WORLD DIDN'T END

 

Physicists brushed off suggestions that the experiment could create tiny black holes that could suck in the planet.

 

"The worries that scientists had were nothing to do with being swallowed up by black holes and everything to do with technical hitches or electronic failure," said Jim al-Khalili, a physicist at Britain's University of Surrey.

 

"Now, after a collective sigh of relief, the real fun starts," al-Khalili said. "No matter what we find, we will be unlocking the secrets of the universe."

 

The LHC will send beams of subatomic particles called protons whizzing around the tube at just under the speed of light.

 

The hope is they will smash into one another and explode in a burst of new and previously unseen types of particles -- recreating on a miniature scale the heat and energy of the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

 

At full speed the LHC will engineer 600 million collisions every second. Data will be transmitted via a network called The Grid to scientists at 170 institutions in 33 countries.

 

"It is sort of a virtual United Nations," said Michael Tuts, a physics professor at Columbia University in New York and program manager for 400 U.S. physicists working on one LHC project.

 

The experiments could confirm the existence of the Higgs Boson, a theoretical particle named after Peter Higgs, who first proposed it in 1964.

 

Also referred to as the "God particle," the Higgs Boson could help explain how matter has mass. "I think it's pretty likely" that it will be found, Higgs told reporters at the University of Edinburgh, where he is a retired professor of physics.

 

Scientists halted the particle beam's counter-clockwise spin temporarily on Wednesday afternoon after problems with the machine's magnets caused its temperature to warm slightly.

 

CERN officials said such minor glitches were to be expected given the intricacy of the machine, which is cooled to minus 271.3 degrees Celsius (minus 456.3 degrees Fahrenheit).

 

(Additional reporting by Michael Kahn in London, Laura MacInnis in Geneva, Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago and Maggie Fox in Washington; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

[bigdan 11]

there messing with the wrong stuff leave it to got the mian calander shows the end of the world on 21 december 2012 it said in the paper the experiment could take 4 years to manifest on a spiritaul level things are really starting to change so something is happening i dont know if this is it or not but we shouldnt mess with this stuff if the univers is made of matter this could tare a hole in it to make a black hole or what if it ripped a hole to somewhere else a different dimenion just think its possible

[Dan_Jones 7]

What a bunch of arseholes ... if the planet hasnt got enough greif from greenhouse gasses and the rest of it ... 8 scientists think they can go smashing particals together to try and get the poor c**t sucked into a black hole lol

[Dan_Jones 7]

NO !!!!!!!!! world cant end on the 21st of december !!! its my 21st birthday 3 days after lol

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

Big Bang that gave birth to the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

 

 

Just a small point, but important nonetheless .........

 

 

I was taught that God made the universe.

 

What's changed?

[bigdan 11]

im religous i believe god made the world but he might of used particles of matter to do it

[speedlamper 0]

Big Bang that gave birth to the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

 

 

Just a small point, but important nonetheless .........

 

 

I was taught that God made the universe.

 

What's changed?

people started seeing sense and realised it was a load of bollocks,

 

where do you think the sun gets it energy from? nuclear fusion... basically atoms smashing together,

if they didnt we would never of existed and it isnt going to last forever,

[BlueCoyote 0]

personal beliefs aside (i'm Christian by the way) if the world is supposed to "end" (according to the Mayan Calendar) then theres nothing we can do about it is there? whether scientists crash protons together or the sun explodes.... what ya gonna do?

 

some are saying Obama is the anti christ lol then there is 2012 and what ever changes it involves... call it myth or science, what ever you want, its still just old fashioned change.

 

and at the end of the day, i choose to believe in God because, well..... if i choose to deny God and find out He exists, i'm gonna be in big trouble lol

 

and besides I dont go around calling people fools for what ever personal beliefs they hold and i dont try to shove my religion upon them either. i cant help it if many of you grew up with zealots and pedophile priests... but i have met many many many bitter and narrow minded atheists.

Edited September 11, 2008 by BlueCoyote