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Lots of people will be hysterical when the Large Hadron Collider starts up. There will be protests (probably more than a few here in everybody's favorite city), and maybe some nut will even try to bomb one of the LHC's facilities.

I'm pretty excited about this. I don't pretend to understand much of the science involved (humanities lol) but from what I've gathered this thing has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

I hear that during the first couple months of operation, they're mostly going to be doing test runs, just to make sure that everything is calibrated perfectly and they can actually get a beam of particles to circumnavigate a 17-mile circular tunnel at 99.99% the speed of light. That sounds like it could be tricky.

If it does reduce the Earth to a singularity, we've had a good run, and things have kind of been going downhill for a while, anyway.

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This thread can also be for Half-Life references, if you want.

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-headcrab joke-

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You're needed in the test chamber

Resonance cascade scenario

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?

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crowbar, gravity gun, non-vocal protagonist, science.

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Super Collider? I just met her.



And then they invented the super collider.

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We should have a really uninformed debate about what will happen when the LHC is activated.

I hear it will stop the rotation of earth's core, causing a reversal in the earth's magnetic field, from which only Hillary Swank Aaron Eckhart will be able to save us.

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blah blah Tremors Kevin Bacon blah blah

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For information about the dangers of the LHC...

Also, consult this rap video:



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Just a little over 10 hours now.

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I'm so gonna lose sleep over this.

Yeah.

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Pfft. Get a good night's sleep. If this thing does create a black hole, if this thing does create a tiny, stable black hole (which, again, is not theoretically possible) while you're asleep, you probably won't even know what's happening before you die.

Though I have to admit, if there's an earthquake here tonight, it'll probably be a little more unnerving than usual.

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I was joking.

This is obviously bull****.

I hope it's not, though, and it somehow destroys all of Europe but not America.

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Europe:0
Black hole:1

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These kinds of collisions happen millions of times each second. If they were capable of destroying the universe, we'd have noticed by now (or at least, would not be able to discuss the dangers of the LHC).

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I am super pumped about the LHC experiment.

It's like Christmas Eve, except there's a chance the planet will implode while I sleep. Also, instead of opening the presents when I wake up, I'll have to wait a few days/weeks for the scientists to interpret the results of the experiment.

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This is just going to be a test run.

They aren't going to start colliding those hardons for about a month.

Also, it might take months or years after that for major discoveries to be made.

-- Edited by john31584 at 03:45, 2008-09-10

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Yeah, I just read that a few minutes ago. Epic disappointment.

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If the LHC doesn't destroy the planet, I hope it somehow manages to kill everyone who believes in astrology, and that Nostradamus could predict the future.

-- Edited by john31584 at 04:02, 2008-09-10

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There is an Astrology group on campus.

No Atheist group. Maybe I could congregate a " **** The Astrology Group " group.

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