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More On The International Linear Collider
paragon_au writes "The UK Independent is reporting that details for a purposed 40km long international Linear Collider have been released by 'An international panel of particle physicists [that] decided the high-energy linear collider - a £3bn machine for smashing matter against antimatter - will use revolutionary superconducting technology to shed light on the origin and nature of the universe. Plans for the International Linear Collider have still to be finalised but scientists hope that construction of the underground machine will begin in six years.'"
That's fine and dandy, but we already know the answer to life, the universe, and everything. What I want to know is, what's the question. Can this thing help?? ;)
It's called the Trans-Canada Highway.
(It's an immature joke so I'm posting it AC.)
a toy that i can finally put to good use, smashing things never gets old!
Damn intolerant fool, your anti-americanism is getting the better of you.
I can hear the scientists planning this now...
"Okay, we'll make this like, really huge collider and we'll smash matter and anti-matter together really fast, like SSSSKRKKRAASSSH. Oh man, this will be so awesome."
"Super collider? I just met her!"
[The audience laughs.]
And then they built the super collider.
Thank you, you've been a great audience....
I see scientists getting skate boards, or roller blades on and hurting them selfs as they have jousting tournaments in the thing. On the up side, I bet they will come up with some really bad ass new kinds of armor as a result of this project... maybe even some cool really fast skate boards.
Note: this has been posted by r.future (a person who spends way to much time on the internet!)
I'm sure there is some way to make a conspiracy theory out of this.
I am sure you are alluding to the well known fact that this is all part of the plan to give Dick Cheney Spidey-Powers and send him back to before the time of the dinosaurs so that he can influence the size of the US oil reserves.
This sounds strangely like the plot-line from Half-Life... Do I smell a prequel?
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I think they should build it....
;)
oh, I don't know, maybe 40 or so km from SCO's headquarters?
liqbase
Yeah, the collider can supposedly relicence GPL software as BSD.
and we pronounce linacs as 'linacs'.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
A free electron laser? I can already see the infomercial:
"Buy one linear collider for 3 billion pounds and get one electron laser for FREE!"
From the article:
"Last year, physicists accurately measured for the first time how the universe is composed. They found that only 4 per cent of it was made up of visible atoms, with the rest being mysterious dark matter and dark energy - neither of which entities can be seen."
SF author Ted Sturgeon once noted that "90% of everything is crap" (he actually said "crud", but "crap" sounds better). So, according to the article, they refined the estimate to 96%. How many more digits of precision will $5B get us?