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What Are Must-Sees For Open Day At the LHC?
ribasushi writes "The last open day at the Large Hadron Collider is one week away. While I have a solid chance to go, I am dumbstruck by the insane amount of things to see during the 10 hours of the event. Since I do not know all that much about physics, I am turning to the knowledgeable crowd here at Slashdot — what do you think are the most awesome 5 must-see things on the agenda next Sunday?"
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Why not go see the black holes. You'll finally be able to answer the question of what's on the other side of one!
I drink to make other people interesting!
If you can see the Xener Diode assembly and the Flux Capacitor.
You have *got* to see the flux capacitors! I realize that you're a bit new to physics, but please press hard to see the flux capacitors. Your guide may laugh uneasily - just keep pressing and don't take "No" for an answer. You won't be sorry.
Make sure you know where to get one in case of an emergency.
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Please, don't move carts with odd-looking crystals in teleporting devices.
See if you can goad the physicists into destroying the universe by creating a black hole. You know you want to.
The LHC is just a tourist trap. It's like Times Square. You go thinking it's gonna be all fun, then you realize it's just a bunch of bright colors and earth eating black holes, and there's nothing to do there but shop for overpriced bosons you could've picked up for half price at a more nondescript collider.
The laws of probability forbid it!
.. Small Hard-on Collider
The On switch/button :D
You can get the answer by repeatedly asking 'What does this button do?'
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How's that for knowledgeable!?
*barely dodges flak*
"Don't meddle in the affairs of a patent dragon, for thou art tasty and good with ketchup." ~ohcrapitssteve
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)
"I visited the Large Hadron Collider and all I got was this radioactive T-Shirt"
buying a real "Mini black Hole!" on a key-ring. :)
ask for the keys and take it for a test collide!
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week, try the fish!
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Ask them if the big bang was caused by an experiment to discover the Higg's boson.
Ask them if this is the last chance to perform this experiment before physicists realize that it will cause a big bang and inflationary event which will recycle the present universe.
Ask them if this is the same experiment that was done 20 billion light years away and that put on a show called the Star of Bethlehem 2000 years ago.
Ask them if the only proof that they will cause a big bang is that there cannot be any proof until the experiment is performed. (See also 'The Hound of the Baskervilles')
Ask them if it is necessary to do the experiment because we've been doing it for infinity and if we don't the universe will fade away forever.
Ask them if we have to do it because if we don't some other nearby civilization will beat us to it and we'll eat their dust.
I thought a superconducting key ring would be a cool souvenir.
They don't sell it over the net.
So I tried eBay.
No luck, but there was some superconducting parafinelia for some $10K. So I asked
How much to ship to Iran
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