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Short Film About CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Lobster911 writes "Seedmagazine.com has posted a new film, Lords of the Ring, about CERN's Large Hadron Collider. NESTA fellow Alom Shaha takes us through the world's largest machine, as he lets the scientists who work at CERN explain the LHC and what they hope to accomplish with it. The highly-anticipated collider is set to start up in 2007, running at full speed by 2008."
Including previews and ads, the film runs approximately 1.67 picoseconds, but at relativistic speeds, it seems like hours.
The highly-anticipated collider is set to start up in 2007, running at full speed by 2008.
When I read this I thought they were talking about Windows Vista.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
Quirky? That's strange. If only you'd written it as "quarky", it would have been a truly beautiful and charming joke.
Three particles of neutrons uncharged in our eye,
Seven of electrons with no atoms to call home,
Nine of protons from which Hydrogen we did pry,
One ring for the Physicists on their dark thrones
In the Land of Sweden where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to collide them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Sweden where the Shadows lie.
If this signature is witty enough, maybe somebody will like me.
The highly-anticipated collider is set to start up in 2007, running at full speed by 2008."
It's going to take a year to get those particles up to full speed? Heavy.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
Reminds me of an old physics joke:
"I've wanted to do the two-slit experiment for years, but my wife won't let me!"
To which the reply was:
"Good luck with that. Try explaining to her afterwards that you couldn't tell which slit you came through. You'll be sleeping next to the particle collider for a month."
Don't know where this came from though; it's not original to me...
Erotic is when you use a feather. Exotic is when you use the whole chicken.
Religious fundamentalists complaining that we do not need to spend billions of dollars figuring out what happened at the so-called “Big Bang” (God created the universe, afterall) and that those funds would be better spent on more ambitious projects that would help save America from immorality and godlessness.
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it would have been a truly beautiful and charming joke
Well, that post up there was a strange one. Those of us down here salute you.
If all you're colliding with is other hardons, then I don't think it's the ladies you're impressing...
Many Bothans died to bring you this sig.
'd be cool if his name was Atom Smasha.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
>>> more time explaining why re-creating conditions at the big bang will NOT create a second big bang that will obliterate the universe. (yes, some people actually worry about that)
What, you mean forcing God to do something after an apaprent 2000 year absence (not counting toast apparitions)
It would be awesome if they ran that thing, and God came down from the heavens saying "Dude, I heard that... fricken loud man! I heard it all the way across the universe where I'm creating a planet consisting only of a beer volcano and a stripper factory... check it out".
ramen.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
"Dude, I heard that... fricken loud man! I heard it all the way across the universe where I'm creating a planet consisting only of a beer volcano and a stripper factory... check it out".
I am interested in your God and would like to suscribe to your newsletter.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Three rings for the synchotron-kings under the phi,
Seven for the cyclotrons in their shields of stone,
Nine for superconducting supercolliders doomed to die,
One for the CERN Lord in his quark Hadron
In the Alps of Switzerland where the gluons lie.
One Ring to hew them all, One Ring to grind them
One Ring to smash them all and in the black holes slime them
In the Alps of Switzerland where the gluons lie.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
At timecode 1:39 he claims that the protons are travelling around the 27km at 50,000 times/second. This gives them a speed of 1.3m km/sec, over 4 times the speed of light ;). Impressive!
Apparently they travel 11,000 times a second around the 27km, reaching 0.999997828 the speed of light.
LHC Facts
"If A equals success, then the formua is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut" - A Einstein.