The World Ends Tomorrow
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 - 2:06pm
Okay, so maybe not. But if so, the guys at CERN should be well prepared.
Any armchair (or otherwise) physicists on GWJ? What do you think we will discover when those first proton streams collide in the LHC? I'm skeptical the Higgs-Boson will be found, personally.
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Is the test chamber in Black Mesa?
Apparently we're still safe. For now, anyway.
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I think they'll create a strangelet, then befriend it and teach it to be a normal particle by taking off its glasses and letting down its hair. Then in the heartwarming finale its strange quarks will decay through weak interaction into stable up and down quarks.
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Looks like they'll be firing it up around 3am EST so at least if it happens I'll be going in my sleep.
Maybe I can get some End-Of-The-World sex out of the wife.
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Looks like we may have some more time. It appears they're just going to shoot the first beam tomorrow as a test. They won't be colliding anything for a couple weeks probably.
Mr T broke the speed of light in the A-Team van because he wanted to prove that quantum physics was a bunch of Jibba Jabba.
I double post for the End Times.
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That's gold.
Reminds me of the robotic rapture email service.
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Thing is, they won't know if they've found anything for a while after each experiment anyway. It takes time to collate and interpret all that data...
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Mwahaha, I love the script on that page.
You can watch the world end (maybe) in a live web cast (9:00 AM CEST, GMT +2).
It might be worth staying up to see...at the very least I'll know whether or not I need to set my alarm for work tomorrow.
Time for the f*cking zombies. God damn it I hate zombies.
Problems imminent.
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If it goes, I'm gonna be really pissed, as I've not yet got to Space level in Spore. What a freaking waste...
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Prepare for unforeseen consequences.
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Crap. My haz-mat suit is at the freaking cleaners.
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Oh sh*t, this can't be good.
wordsmythe wrote:
I swear to christ, I see any pictures with a dude in a blue suit, its time to find a bomb shelter.
*Cough*
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I'll try to get my friend Matt to post again. He's going to be working at CERN in a couple of weeks.
Ouch, I have lost myself again
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A rap!
Yes, once you listen, try to get that out of your head. You can't! It's the Higgs Boson!
LHCb sees where the antimatter's gone.
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions.
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind:
They're lookin' for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead,
and the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.
Mr T broke the speed of light in the A-Team van because he wanted to prove that quantum physics was a bunch of Jibba Jabba.
And now you know what people at these types of institutes get up to in all their free time - and believe me, there's a lot of it. One time, sitting at the helm of a neutron diffraction experiment, we set it up and left it going for over a day. We eventuallly got bored but there wasn't much we could do. At least in the larger facilities you can ride bikes around the rings
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Why bother, just remember to duck and cover.
You can't take the sky from me.
Won't the bike stick to the side of the accelerator?
I can't help but notice that we are all still here, btw.
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MechaSlinky wrote:That's how people keep fit there. I mean, it's like an adjustable amount of effort: turn up the magnets to increase the work you have to do. If you want a nice, calm ride then just turn them down
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Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed The World Yet?
Looking good so far.
*cough*
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Well, whether it destroys the planet or not, I'm still checking my sub-etha sensomatic regularly, and my towel is in my bag.
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