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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."
So, it begs the question - where's our savior, Gordan Freeman?
.. this can't end well
this is clearly copyright infringement.
Naw, it's gonna be filled with black holes.
THE END IS NIGH! REPENT!!!
What is the condition called where you become sexually aroused by technology?
Technopr0n!
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
My ears! The ear plugs do NOTHING!
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.
It is astonishing what man can accomplish when not at war!
What is the condition called where you become sexually aroused by technology?
Technopr0n!
Oops, that's the stuff that gets you there. What I meant to say was C!@L!$
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
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!
Let me guess... it's giving you a hadron?
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.
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.
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.
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?
Let me be the first to say: That's a LOT of zip ties...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
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?
Did the same to me, but then, I couldn't help thinking 'goatse' the whole time I was looking at the pictures.
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.
Whitespace is one of the technologies it would seem.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
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?
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From the lhcdefense.org site - "61% of over 250,000 participants in an AOL survey say that operating the LHC is not worth the risk"
Yes, we must end all science until at least 51% of all AOL users agree that it is safe.
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
Look at you, poster... a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you wait for your karma reward. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal supercollider?
You posted that same question yesterday.
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."
This is for sure the stuff that sets Man apart from Animal!
Oh, please. The rats keep trying to build a cyclotron in my basement.
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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.
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.