One of the Coolest Places In the Universe

phantomflanflinger writes "The Cern Laboratory, home of the Large Hadron Collider, is fast becoming one of the coolest places in the Universe. According to news.bbc.co.uk, the Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) — colder than deep space. The LHC aims to re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang and continue the search for the Higgs boson."

Comments

Higgs Bussom?

[Exanon]

We built the LHC to look for tits?

Re:Higgs Bussom?

[katterjohn]

I can't think of a better reason for it.

Re:Higgs Bussom?

[Max Littlemore]

Hey, the title does say it's one of the coolest places in the universe.

Re:Higgs Bussom?

[Carewolf]

We built the LHC to look for tits?

What do you think a large hardon collider is for?

Re:Higgs Bussom?

[Duncan Blackthorne]

The ever-elusive Higgs Bosom can't be directly observed (because it's like staring into the sun) therefore it must be indirectly observed -- in this case, by lowering the ambient temperature in the observational environment and watching for the most common secondary sign of it's presence, a phenomenon which researchers have fondly nicknamed the "sweater-puppy effect".

Warning!

[Slur]

Tongue contact with cold collider parts can result in serious injury.

Re:Warning!

[Anonymous Coward]

Do not lick collider with remaining tongue.

Bring it on

[charlesbakerharris]

The LHC has nothing on my mom's basement. RIGHT HERE is where it's at, baby. Cool Central.

Infinitely Improbable

[SlowMovingTarget]

The collider is so cool you could keep a side of meat in it for a month. It is so incredibly hip it has trouble seeing over its own pelvis. Hey, you sass that hoopy large hadron collider, there's a frood that really knows where its towel's at.

Re:Can someone code up a clock?

[Anonymous Coward]

Assuming that the LHC will destroy the Earth, this countdown is also the number of days left to lose your virginity.

Re:Coolest place looking for the hottest bang?

[Anonymous Coward]

One of my little sisterâ(TM)s friends told her in serious horror that âoethe scientistsâ were going to destroy the earth with this device.

Talk about dumb! Doesn't she realize it's not just the Earth, but the entire Universe that is on the line here?!!!

obligatory bash.org quote

[naz404]

[Guo_Si] Hey, you know what sucks?
[TheXPhial] vaccuums
[Guo_Si] Hey, you know what sucks in a metaphorical sense?
[TheXPhial] black holes
[Guo_Si] Hey, you know what just isn't cool?
[TheXPhial] lava?

Re:When I was growing up

[nacturation]

Luxury. Well when I were a lad, our dad used to make 160 of us live in a shoebox in the middle of deep space. Millikelvins?? We *dreamed* of millikelvins....

Paradise. Why, when I was growin' up, we were all huddled together inside a higgs boson in the middle of a black hole. Every morning, we'd lick the black hole clean with our tongues, then huddle around the event horizon rubbing our hands together until it went *above* absolute zero.