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Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th
Naznarreb writes "CERN announced today that the first attempt to circulate a beam through the Large Hadron Collider will be on September 10th, 2008. You can read the press release here. They also announced the event will be webcast live. According to the release, they're just planning to run a few tests laps, not smash any particles, so the world won't be ending quite yet." And despite that September 10th date, according to the BBC, "On 9 August, protons will be piped through LHC magnets for the first time."
Looks like 9 September will be a good day to charge up my HEV suit and sharpen my crowbar...
I'll keep my towel handy
-- All this knowledge is giving me a raging brainer.
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it would be destroyed almost immediately due to Hawking radiation.
Awesome. I always knew Stephen Hawking was a badass, but now I find out he's a superhero with the power to destroy black holes!
I can see it now: thousands of people panic through the streets, while Stephen Hawking slowly wheels himself into a phone booth, only to fly out a second later and fly to the black hole, destroying it instantly with his Hawking radiation eye-beams! That's going to be sooo cool!
I must admit, his disguise is ingenious. I never suspected he was anything other than a mild-mannered physicist.
A red crowbar has been sent to CERN in anticipation of the LHC particle accelerator going online.
http://www.destructoid.com/reddit-sends-crowbar-to-scientists-to-protect-against-headcrabs-98281.phtml
If nothing comes from this demonstration but a black hole it will definitely suck.
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Your statement is true even if they never turn on the LHC.
Yeah. He looks totally different without his glasses. You can't even recognize him.
I can see it now: thousands of people panic through the streets, while Stephen Hawking slowly wheels himself into a phone booth, only to fly out a second later and fly to the black hole, destroying it instantly with his Hawking radiation eye-beams! That's going to be sooo cool!
The image is funnier to me if he never gets out of his wheelchair. He slowly wheels up, has his machine say "Take this, you bastard", and then the Hawking Radiation spews forth!
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Kingons and Queons are believed to travel faster than the speed of light, but I hear it's quite difficult to harness their power.
Are you saying that 9-11 didn't change everything?
Because 9-11 changed everything.
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So probably not enough time to find the nearest woman and convince her you're a virgin
I'm sure you won't have to do much convincing.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
>Such as yourself?
I slept through middle school, high school, undergrad chemistry and physics, slept through my masters, and am sleeping on the job at my university environmental research gig.
Any questions?
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