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Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider
mactard submitted a collection of insanely beautiful pictures of the Large Hadron Collider. I've always had a warm place for amazing photgraphs, and these really don't disappoint. Science really is beautiful sometimes.
That 3rd photo looks an awful lot like a stargate.
I'm assuming its a shot facing downwards, thus the pool of water or whatever that is, but it just looks cool.
"This thing is going to kill us all."
Nice server room. They're still going to use distributed storage to put all their data at other universities and national labs.
So, it begs the question - where's our savior, Gordan Freeman?
.. this can't end well
check it out http://www.google.com/search?q=%22largw+hadron+rap%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
this is clearly copyright infringement.
It's full of stars!
(What. It's not NOT full of stars, kind of.)
"These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined" --Homer re:
What is the condition called where you become sexually aroused by technology?
Well... that's what I've got.
These images set the mind on fire!
Using 2 back channel connections, one military and one academic, to go visit this while I'm in Europe next year for work. I guess it didn't hurt working on those French Mirages in Saudi Arabia after all. I'm very interested in ALICE, it should add credence to, or dismiss outright, a lot of cosmological foundations.
I just hope it doesn't destroy the Earth before then.
"There are no facts, only interpretations." --Friedrich Nietzsche.
Did any of you notice where they stored the crowbars and shotguns? I'm just making sure when they power this thing up (and create that inter-dimensional rift) that I know the layout. I forget, has the gravity gun been invented yet. Or was that CERN2?
Next time some sci-fi movie wants to display a massive quasi-government experiment regarding anything, they should look this stuff over. So much cooler looking than the BS that most movies have.
Wow, these are much better than the ones I took last year. Hee, first post?
It raises the question...
AWESOME Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider
It is astonishing what man can accomplish when not at war!
I always find the most impressive things about the detectors is the cabling that you have to do. The CMS ECAL has at least 61,200 cables to read out all the the crystals, the tracker (first photo) also has thousands and thousands of cables. Trying to wire the damn thing up is an epic task (one I'm happy to have avoided) and trust me, you dont want to screw up.
If this wasn't designed by inter-galactic aliens, i'll eat my hat. I can't think of any purpose of this machine other than them beaming down their armies as soon as the thing is fully powered.
Search for exotic particles? Yeah right!
It does look impressive. Now all we need is an undead assassin to tow it out into space attached to a giant insect. Before we all die horribly.
Do these pics remind anyone else of the original System Shock?
I wonder how much Karma this question will cost me.
I just pooped your party.
See this previous discussion
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Picture 5, I just spotted the Higgs Boson! Oh no wait, hold on. False alarm folks. Just a dead pixel.
I'd rather have that the money goes here, at least something good could come of this.
This is the sig that says NI (again)
This is so beautiful. It looks like extra-terrestrial technology.
I've never seen such a complex array of technology outside a Hollywood or video game mock-up. It must be very exciting for the folks on the design team to see this coming together.
And kudos to the photographer(s) who captured these. That was a smart move, collecting such high-res images.
Very nice.
...Stargate?!
You should see pictures of our pionizer.
--Barron
The Big Picture photoblog is quite good. I've been subscribed to its RSS feed for nearly a month now, and it never disappoints.
What is humor if not pain tempered by time?
I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
Let me be the first to say: That's a LOT of zip ties...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
does it run linux?
I just wanted to check when this beauty is going live ... but as i discovered:
http://www.lhcountdown.com/
seems to be down ... i hope this kind of misconfiguration does not apply to the rest of the system! (else we are all doomed! *runs away in panic*)
Article says: "The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is preparing for its first small tests in early August, leading to a planned full-track test in September - and the first planned particle collisions before the end of the year" anyone knows the specific dates for these events?
Why? Where?
If they, when they turn it on, create anything that can at least significantly damage The WorldTM - unless you have a personal space faring escape pod LHC is going to get you.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
if conditions immediately after the big bang are suitable for running Vista smoothly
So this can put me on to the MCP's game grid right?
This is for sure the stuff that sets Man apart from Animal!
Now, if we can get the US to stop blowing $billions on killing people and instead invest in human understanding of the greater universe we live in! What a dream... Oh well, the US cares more about dropping bombs on the heads of innocents...
Ruby Neural Evolution of Augmenting Topologies
Man's technology has exceeded his grasp. - 'The World is not Enough' Zealous Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed 'Higgs Boson'(aka God) Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life in endless experiments hoping to prove a theory when urgent tangible problems face the planet. The European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN) new Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world's most powerful atom smasher that will soon be firing subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to create Miniature Big Bangs producing Micro Black Holes, Strangelets and other potentially cataclysmic phenomena. CERN physicist Alvaro De Rújula in the BBC LHC documentary, 'The Six Billion Dollar Experiment', incredibly admits quote, "Will we find the Higgs particle at the LHC? That, of course, is the question. And the answer is, science is what we do when we don't know what we're doing." And CERN spokesmodel Brian Cox follows with this stunning quote, "the LHC is certainly, by far, the biggest jump into the unknown." The CERN-LHC website Mainpage itself states quote: "There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions,..." Again, this is because they truly don't know what's going to happen. They are experimenting with forces they don't understand to obtain results they can't comprehend. If you think like most people do that 'They must know what they're doing' you could not be more wrong. Some people think the same thing about medical Dr.s but consider this by way of comparison and example from JAMA: "A recent Institute of Medicine report quoted rates estimating that medical errors kill between 44,000 and 98,000 people a year in US hospitals." The second part of the quote reads "...but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator,..." A molecularly changed or Black Hole consumed Lifeless World? The end of the quote reads "...as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe." These experiments to date have so far produced infinitely more questions than answers but there isn't a particle physicist alive who wouldn't gladly trade his life to glimpse the "God particle", and sacrifice the rest of us with him. This quote from National Geographic exactly sums this "science" up: "That's the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out." Find out more about that "stuff" below; http://www.sanescience.org/ http://www.lhcfacts.org/ http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon1.htm http://www.lhcdefense.org/ http://www.lhcconcerns.com/ Popular Mechanics - "World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle'" - http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4216588.html"
Oh great... Next you'll be telling me the LHC is going to tear a rift in the Warp and we're going to get invaded by Slaneeshi demonettes.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
Man's technology has exceeded his grasp. - 'The World is not Enough' Zealous Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed 'Higgs Boson'(aka God) Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life in endless experiments hoping to prove a theory when urgent tangible problems face the planet. The European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN) new Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world's most powerful atom smasher that will soon be firing subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to create Miniature Big Bangs producing Micro Black Holes, Strangelets and other potentially cataclysmic phenomena. CERN physicist Alvaro De Rújula in the BBC LHC documentary, 'The Six Billion Dollar Experiment', incredibly admits quote, "Will we find the Higgs particle at the LHC? That, of course, is the question. And the answer is, science is what we do when we don't know what we're doing." And CERN spokesmodel Brian Cox follows with this stunning quote, "the LHC is certainly, by far, the biggest jump into the unknown." The CERN-LHC website Mainpage itself states quote: "There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions,..." Again, this is because they truly don't know what's going to happen. They are experimenting with forces they don't understand to obtain results they can't comprehend. If you think like most people do that 'They must know what they're doing' you could not be more wrong. Some people think the same thing about medical Dr.s but consider this by way of comparison and example from JAMA: "A recent Institute of Medicine report quoted rates estimating that medical errors kill between 44,000 and 98,000 people a year in US hospitals." The second part of the quote reads "...but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator,..." A molecularly changed or Black Hole consumed Lifeless World? The end of the quote reads "...as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe." These experiments to date have so far produced infinitely more questions than answers but there isn't a particle physicist alive who wouldn't gladly trade his life to glimpse the "God particle", and sacrifice the rest of us with him. This quote from National Geographic exactly sums this "science" up: "That's the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out." Find out more about that "stuff" below; http://www.sanescience.org/ http://www.lhcfacts.org/ http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon1.htm http://www.lhcdefense.org/ http://www.lhcconcerns.com/ Popular Mechanics - "World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle'" - http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4216588.html"
They are waiting for you Gordon...in the tessst chambrrrr...
Some of those pictures would look really nice as a wallpaper if they were higher resolution.
Ok, whats the word I'm looking for? Oh yes, WOW!
Did they hire a designer to design the color scheme? That is simple gorgeous!
yes, these certainly are some beautifull amazing images... but seeing all the wires and little parts, gets me more an more afraid for a big accident waiting to happen.. with all the cheapest contractors possible I just wishes they build it in the states, and not so close to our own home.. hehe..
Did anyone else get a weird feeling like they were looking at something they weren't supposed to? Thats amazing stuff, seems like it should be classified or owned by some evil super villain or something
The tools are beautiful objects, to be sure. But what makes beautiful science is elegant, concise, and simple (within the context) descriptions of how the universe works.
I give you "Hadron - Eater of Worlds"
I sig, therefore I am.
And with all the wires and pieces making up that machine... what are the odds that there was one tiny little mistake somewhere in the assembly? Or is it made redundant, so that if a part fuck up, it doesn't matter? I mean, a little spark at the wrong place in these wires and...
it looks like they have a couple strands of copper wire here and there which is ripe for the picking. We've had thieves taking copper water pipes, ground strapping and rods, and even had a few electrocuted while attempting to take live power lines.
seriously, those pics looked amazing.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
I don't mind if they make a black hole, as long as they don't drop it. I think that would be bad.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Some scientist might be hinting that it is not the black hole we need to worry about, but rather the Revelation regarding the singularity that could alter our flawed perception of reality. Read about it here. http://godparticle.net/
"an infinite player that has lost his finite mind" ~Infinite Play the Movie (it blends with reality)
I wanted to try and find the location of the last pic in Google maps. So I went to maps.google.com, and typed in Lake Geneva. It suggested something called "Lake Geneva", WI. I thought, OK, typical Americanocentrism, so I searched for Lake Geneva, Switzerland, and ended up with "Lake Geneva Uninc Switzerland County, IN". I zoomed out of that place a fair way, and I couldn't see any water. What gives? Brin, you listening?
Get your own free personal location tracker
...that thing gives helicopters cancer.
...Large Hardon Collider?
Have you never seen an episode of Time Tunnel?
http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/timetunnel.htm
Eric Baird
The comments on that page are as depressing as the pictures are beautiful and impressive. :(
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
Make ready my ship, soon the world will witness the power of a fully functional battle station!
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
This goes to show once again that we can accomplish anything when we set our minds to it.
Why am I reminded of a bunch of rhesus monkeys staring at a black monolith?
One of the experiments shown contains a unit called the "Time Projection Chamber." And so what exactly is the purpose of this "Time Projection Chamber", hmm?
First pic of the collider...
Nevinyrral's Disk.
Coincidence?
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I am unimpressed. THIS is a more amazing engineering feat.
wtf?
Looking at the LHC, I would say that it looks like a series of tubes...
So, what you're saying is that the tubes are clogging the tubes? *Head asplodes*
I was recently lucky enough to have two tours of the CMS experiment, once on the open day and a second private tour a couple of weeks later. I can honestly say that I felt humbled standing next to it.
I am no stranger to technology, I work as a sysadmin in a large, world class data center. But this thing is something else. To think that a team made up of people from all over the world can accomplish something like this when they put their minds to it.
And the purpose of it? Not to make weapons or money, but purely and simply, to increase our knowledge.
Hats off to all those involved.
-= This is a self-referential sig =-
A guy I know who works on one of the experiments told me a joke they have. Apparently there is more than a little rivalry between the Atlas and CMS teams. I asked him what CMS stands for, he told me - When you go and look at it you See A Mess :)
-= This is a self-referential sig =-
What does the Higgs boson have to do with the singularity? Unless it gives us better computers, it does absolutely nothing for the singularity.
Yeah, that's right. I asked a question and then answered it right away.
Someday people will look in amazement and say, 'I can't believe they can fit all that into one 8 zetabyte flash card now.'
When I saw the photo of the CMS (first one) I figured that some salesman at Monster Cable must have wet himself.
Have gnu, will travel.
Well, if it does happen I expect you to come back to this thread and say you're sorry.
*nods*
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
No doubt hooked up with VGA on a computer with PS/2 and a gameport.
this thing is being build to collide hadrons?
Just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if the first initialization command goes something like:
"Commence Primary Ignition"
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
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Camping on quad since 1996.
cyclic illogic #1
1A) Because the Big Bang is perfectly proven undisputed fact obtained during a direct telephone call to God The Creator himself, the fact that the Big Bang occurred just like we know for certain that it did logically implies that these little black holes dissipate.
versus
1B) We have spent billions of Euros on this thing to prove whether the Big Bang occurred or not, because we are not sure that the facts support a key criterion on which the Big Bang depends.
cyclic illogic #2
2A) Because input stimuli in the LHC happen in nature all of the time, the LHC is perfectly safe.
versus
2B) We have spent billions of Euros on this thing, because we have never observed the outcomes of the LHC in nature.
1A and 1B cannot both be true. 2A and 2B cannot both be true.
To produce different outcomes than seen in nature, evidently the LHC actually does induce different input stimuli than possible outside of the laboratory, or else we would have already been able to observe the LHC's wonderful outputs already in nature. Even people with very high IQs can be very stupidly illogical. Book smarts are not street smarts!
So if you don't think its pretty - you aren't a real nerd?
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Just like a borg ship...
I raise a beer (in this case Sheaf Stout) to the engineers!
Kudos!
Any moment now we should see a hot looking robot run down the tunnel in photo #4 chasing after some guy named John Connor.
Oh and I can't wait for the future repeated slashdot posts about trial attempt number X has failed leading scientists to spend months/years diagnosing what went wrong. Heres to future epic fails.
Sounds like you've got a hard-on for hadrons. Whatever.
made me came!
Does rule 34 apply? does 35? are all the talks about the LHD creating black holes referring to the utter destruction of our internet's laws? We better start sleeping with our eyes open.
Just in case you really wanted to know: it tracks particles. When a charge particle moves through a gas it knocks off electrons. These are then accelerated by an electric field towards the end of the chamber. The location where the electrons hit the ends gives a 2D projection of the track. By measuring the time of arrival you can determine how far they travelled (if you know the electron drift velocity) and obtain the third dimension. Hence the name time projection chamber. Nothing to do with Dr. Who I'm afraid!
If you are looking for a picture of a Higgs try this one which shows a Higgs at ATLAS.
Actually Hollywood have taken note. They sent a guy around to photograph ATLAS last month to get pictures for the computer graphics they will use to create a detector for the upcoming Angels and Demons film based on Dan Brown's book. Apparently though, like the book, they aren't trying to have any sort of scientific accuracy. In the film a thin sheet of glass will be what shields the scientists from the radiation, rather than the 10's of metres of Earth and concrete in the real case.
They have enough bandwidth to transfer datasets that are measured in terabytes to universities around the world.
Actually the datasets are now measured in petabytes. The first test petabyte of data, for ATLAS at least, was transfered out of CERN in 2006.
According to Wikipedia, 95% confidence interval is 114 to 140 GeV/c2.
That is if you fit it to the Standard Model. Since we have no idea if the SM holds to LHC energies you cannot really believe that as a real bound. In fact, if we measure the Higgs at 200GeV/c2 my guess is that we'd revisit some of the input measurements and find that the result is probably not as inconsistent as we originally thought i.e. take these limits with a LARGE grain of salt, they depend on a lot of different, complex measurements all being correct.
What is far more certain is that we have to see something before 1TeV. At around this energy the probability of two W bosons scattering becomes greater than 100% without a Higgs present. Since any theory which gives a bigger than 100% probability of an event has got to be wrong there are only two possibilities:
This is one reason why the LHC is so exciting: we HAVE to see something. Either a Higgs boson, or hopefully something entirely different.
I was unable to find free info, although my search (( CERN LHC FINANCE PIE CHART )) does seem to find an abstract of a pay-for-PDF that would describe the costs as of 1997, sigh. Really, it would be neat to know approximately who is paying for this, while the US budget goes for war like you say, and the McMansion-Bailout which is so embarrassing.
this movie is better than "The Da Vinci Code"