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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."
I can. I want to get inside the LHC and bend over so they can fire particles into my arse.
[T]he Large Hadron Collider is... being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin ... -- colder than deep space.
The LHC aims to re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang...
Focus your eyes between those two excerpts and cross them slightly. A big "WTF?!" seems to appear six to eight inches in front of the screen. But it's just an illusion. The latest physical theories suggest that the universe was absolute zero at the instant of the big bang, heated to 1.9K during the inflationary epoch, and is now at about 2.7K. We aren't sure how to extrapolate this into the future. One theory predicts that the temperature will keep increasing until the universe experiences a "heat death." Another is that it will stabilize at 491K and God will put in His baked potato. Gravity Probe C is testing for other evidence of The Divine so we could know the definitive answer as early as 2017.
Moar liek Large Hardon Collider
We're all going to die. i intend to deserve it.
Did you actually help building it?
Okay, I don't really understand the science behind this but recreating the conditions of the "Big Bang" sounds potentially risky to me.
I have a tendency to empathise with Dr. Adrian Kent in a related BBC article ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7468966.stm ) when he says:
"How improbable does a cataclysm have to be to warrant proceeding with an experiment?"
Oooh...listen to the big european!!
If we're not building it it won't be any good, will it? Why don't you give up and build another Concorde instead - that was another europe washout.
You can see hwo good it is in the name - your stupid surrender-monkey machine is just the 'large collider' while ours is the 'super-massive supercollider'! Stands to reason that ours is best...
And you guys wonder why you never get dates.