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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 was shot looking up, at the event horizon of a stable worm hole.
Supermicro 1Us on the left, and AIC 5Us on the right!
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Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
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Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
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The Big Picture photoblog is quite good. I've been subscribed to its RSS feed for nearly a month now, and it never disappoints.
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Nah... looks much more like the intro of Out of this World.
Circumcision is child abuse.
But this this is a lot better. Has an overlay, with the rings on it.
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That's because the real name is lake Leman, not Geneva, dont know why english folks use the Geneva town name for the lake
Try this: The photolab part of the Cern Document server, search query Maximilien Brice. The 'large' photos are quite large, but register for the high-res versions:
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/search?ln=en&cc=CERN+PhotoLab&sc=1&p=Maximilien+Brice&f=&action_search=Search
Let's review the messed-up logic:
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.
Your cyclic illogic has a fatal flaw. Just because we know these things happen in nature all the time doesn't mean we can easily study them. However, we know they happen, the Earth has survived 4.5by of them, and we're not dead yet. Ergo, they can't be too dangerous.
Mother Nature does hit the Earth with collisions of LHC energies on up all the time and has been doing so since the beginning. Although we know this because we can see the results with cosmic ray experiments, they are unusual enough that we can't build a detector of the quality being done here, fly it to the upper atmosphere, then sit and wait for decades for that interaction to occur where we can study it to see what happens. On the other hand, build this thing, aim it where you want, and watch zillions of such interactions occur right where they can be studied.
And yes, I Am A Physicist, specializing in the study of cosmic rays. I even happen to be sitting shift at the moment on an experiment at Fermilab, watching a lower energy particle beam zap my experiment every 2.2 seconds. Beep. Beep. Beep.
If you are looking for a picture of a Higgs try this one which shows a Higgs at ATLAS.
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.