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World's Largest Atom Smasher Nears Completion
evanwired writes "The last magnet was put in place this week at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. When the device is completed about a year from now it will be the world's largest particle accelerator, putting scientists in reach of new data and possible answers to questions dominated by theory over observation for the past two decades. Wired News recently visited the installation — awe-inspiring in its scale — as part of an in-depth, three-part series on the collider exploring the engineering, science and politics of high-end theoretical physics in the 21st century."
Somebody wake Jodie Foster up, the machine is nearly ready!
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Cool - I didn't know CERN was on the web :)
there may be some technology spinoffs about displaying mixtures of pictures and text on the Internet.
Because smashing atoms the old way was sooo Web 1.0
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
The thinking is that any black holes that are created by the LHC would be so small that they would evaporate in an instant, probably within milliseconds of devouring the earth and sun. So there's nothing to worry about really.
They weren't exactly sure what would happen when they set off the first atom bomb either.
Honestly, I hope everyone's wrong and some kind of crazy black hole forms. Yeah, we'd all die...but what a way for a civilization to end! I mean, we gotta' at least out do the dinosaurs.
>"It's quite hard to destroy the Earth."
Does that statement make anyone else nervous? I mean, does that sound like experience talking?
Honestly, I hope everyone's wrong and some kind of crazy black hole forms. Yeah, we'd all die...but what a way for a civilization to end! I mean, we gotta' at least out do the dinosaurs.
Ha, I agree that we must out do the dino's, that would be quite funny. The problem with wiping ourselves out with a black hole is a passing alien craft may detect a black hole where our civilization used to be but they would probably have no idea we even existed.
That is why I think wiping ourselves out with self-replicating nano bots would be much more funny. Then a passing alien craft would come across a milky way sized swarm of these nano bots and think to themselves "what dumbass civilization did this to themselves?".
Hey, there is only one Return and it's not of the King, it's of the Jedi.
I'm more concerned about the probability of a resonance cascade scenario...
By the way, have you seen my crowbar?
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