Happy 50th Cern!

Anonymous Coward writes "The facility that has earned three scientists Nobel prizes, provided the impetus for Berners-Lee's hypertext program (aka the WWW), oh and has also helped answer some fundamental questions regarding the universe has turned fifty today! And with the LHC in development, here's hoping for another 50!"

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Finally!

[Anonymous Coward]

I have Anonymous Coward's email address! I shall let him know how I feel about him.

Out of context:

[Bobdoer]

"the universe has turned fifty today!"

Happy Birthday?

Re:Out of context:

[lukewarmfusion]

That can't be true. I know people older than 50...

This is worse than the Creationists that believe the Earth is 6000 years old.

Just ridiculous.

Re:Out of context:

[maxwell demon]

Those supposedly older than 50 were never born, but just appeared as n-year-old people (complete with memories and all) at creation time.

Hmmmm

[mikeophile]

"Today, the Geneva facility is at the forefront of developing the Grid, a "super-internet" which will enable physicists to handle the surge of data that will come out of the LHC."

Is it me, or is that like a geeky sweet nothing in the ear?

About LHC...

[PaulBu]

Scientists believe this machine, due to come online in 2007, will enable them finally to understand why all the things we can see and touch have mass.

No, the only thing that we can see (a photon of certain wavelength) does not actually have mass!!! BBC got it wrong... ;-)

Paul B.

I bow to you

[daishin]

Ooo great persons who have contributed to the growth of porn.

Im non-Anon!

Yep

[Cprossu]

and the folks at fermilab celebrated with cake!

Re:CERN birthday gifts should be money

[Cprossu]

and if you can't give em money, at least give them your best wishes at finding the 'darn ellusive higgs boson =)

Re:Cost of running Cern?

[Anonymous Coward]

knoledge is cheap.
knowlege is priceless.

How old is it?

[Gothic_Walrus]

How long before the obligatory "It doesn't look a day over 35!" joke?

If I wasn't making this comment, I'd mod down that moron ASAP...

Come to think of it, this is the least useful post I've ever made on Slashdot. Should I be proud of that?

Re:Cost of running Cern?

[Old Wolf]

knoledge is cheap.
knowlege is priceless.

Dictionary is $2.50

Al Gore created the Internet, dammit!

[Anonymous Coward]

provided the impetus for Berners-Lee's hypertext program (aka the WWW)

No, it was Al Gore who "took the initiative in creating the Internet."

PS - you can't say that's been debunked - that's an exact quote

Web ?= positive invention

[n0mad6]

Other particle physicists may be able to back me up on this, but trying to explain what we do to one's relatives/friends is not the easiest thing to do. What's even worse is when the inevitable question of "what is it good for?" comes up. So, usually, I give the usual bit about how many spin-off technologies result from HEP including things like, what else, but the WWW.

I was rather taken aback when a few weeks ago, this response got me an earful of "The WEB!?? You guys are responsible for that PORN-FILLED WASTELAND!???"

I guess I'll stick to saying, "I work in a lab."

Re:It's not "Cern"

[the real darkskye]

The bits that Al Gore invented of course!

Restaurant #1

[sita]

Oh, and the food in the lunch room is not half-bad and cheap for Switzerland.

Yes, maybe, but they have a very limited repertoir... (And I suppose you didn't go to Restaurant #3, at the Prevessin site, that's French cuisine at its worst...)

(Reminds me of the heydays of the mad cow disease, when restaurant #1 put up signs assuring that all meat served was Swiss. Problem was only that Switzerland was #2 in number of mad cow disease cases. So now you know how the Mad Scientist enters the picture. And if you wonder about the sheep on the CERN grounds, they are living dosimeters.)

Re:sheep

[psifishdot]

I wouldn't worry about the sheep. That's what TLD's(thermoluminescent dosimeter) and graduate students are for. The sheep are actually there to detect neutrinos.