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LHC Fully Documented Online
Physicser writes "Want to read every single technical detail of the design and construction of the Large Hadron Collider and its six detectors? The whole shebang — seven reports totaling 1600 pages, 115 MB, with contributions from 8000 scientists and engineers — has been published electronically by the Journal of Instrumentation, free to read without a subscription."
Not particularly.
This is something to download, store away, and reminisce some 30 years later.
If you need me, I'll be in my basement.
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...1600 pages for every detail of the making of a LHC, 6546 pages in the specs for OOXML and it's still not enough detail to let you open and create OOXML documents. Obviously the LHC is not adequately complex.
Don't you mean your parent's basement?
No sig for you!!
At sixteen hundred pages, it can only create about a fourth of the suckiness of the OOXML standard. Since that hasn't generated a black hole - except for maybe a few terabytes of lost data here and there - we should be safe.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
On page 867, there's mention of a two-meter-wide thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The exhaust shaft leads directly to the reactor system, and a precise hit would start a chain reaction which should destroy the LHC.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
I thought that there will be no 30 years later after they turn on the machine...
I especially like appendix B, or "Build Your Own Large Hadron Collider"
I totally have a project for this weekend!
Home Depot has extra large superconducting electromagnets, right?
...now we have to worry about random third-world countries building weapons of mass-collision.
Being able to duplicate an experiment is important to science, so we obviously need many people to build Large Hadron Colliders. I'm not doing anything this weekend, so where's the party?
I found the abstract perfectly understandable. All you have to do is translate from english to greek and then greek to english. This gives you a very clear discription in laymans terms.
Summary. The experience of Totem will measure the intersection of pp completed by the method of brightness and independent study and the rubber band diffractive dispersing the LHC. To fulfill the best possible coverage for advanced charged particles issued by conflicts pp mutual action show télescopes IP5, two of pistage, T1 and T2, will be installed on each side of the region of pseudofastness 3,1 | | 6,5 and Roman stations Pot will be at a distance of 147 meters ±
I reserve the write to mangle english.
I think we need stronger laws to prevent the pirating of particle colliders.
My house is rather small. Perhaps I could build a Medium, or even a Small Hadron Collider?
Ezekiel 23:20
Well, first of all, some of us have better taste than to wear a loincloth. A robe and wizard hat, for example, is much more stylish and comfortable for the aspiring sorcerer or warlock. A toga picta works too, for the aspiring Emperor. Well, at least until mom catches wind that you dyed one of her bedsheets purple ;)
But a loincloth? Ugh. We're civilized people, not some barbarians.
Second, some of us have our own basement to defend, thank you very much. I mean, have you tried taking over the world from your mom's basement? Ooer, talk about frustrating. It would go sorta like this.
Me: "Now we open the prayer books to the dark invocation psalm and..."
Mom (poking her head in): "Anyone want milk and cookies?"
Cultist 1: "I'll have some, please."
Cultist 2: "Me too."
Me: "Mooom!!"
Mom: "Oh, hush. Nice dress, by the way."
Me: "Mom, it's a robe."
Mom: "Sure it is. I just want you to know me and dad support your lifestyle choices."
Cultist 3: "Told you it looks gay."
Cultist 1: "Yeah."
Me: "Mom, you're interrupting our invocation!"
Mom: "Oh, hush, I'm your mom, I'm allowed to. What are you guys playing anyway? Dungeons and Dragons?"
Me: "No, it's serious. And you can start calling me High Overlord Moraelin the First."
Mom: "High, huh? Well, you know me and dad don't approve of _that_, but I guess it would explain a few things."
Cultist 4: "Heh!"
Me: "*sigh* Where are the sacrificial dagger and the sacred chalice anyway?"
Mom: "You mean our kitchen knife? I put it in the dishwasher, together with that plastic cup you had there. They were getting ridiculously dirty, and it's just not healthy."
Cultist 3: "Told ya."
A trip to the kitchen later:
Group chanting: "Nigrae legiones, ferus imperator, sinus occultus, fatum terminatum"
Mom (poking nose in again): "By the way, I'm going to sleep. Try to keep the noise down, please."
Me: "Ok, mom."
Mom: "By the way is that the chorus from Das Omen?"
Me: "No, it's an ancient and sacred invocation.."
Cultist 2: "Nah, I googled it, it's E Nomine."
Cultist 1: "Owned."
Cultist 4: "I thought you said you only listened to metal?"
Me: "Gah! Fine by me, chant Dies Irae if it makes you feel any better."
Cultist 3: "Why do we have to chant in Latin anyway?"
Me: "Because we're summoning an arsehole of a demon, and he wants it that way."
Mom: "Anyway, keep it down and turn off the lights when you're done, ok?"
Me: "Ok, mom. Now where were we?"
Cultist 3: "You know, screw this. Let's skip the henchman and work for the real overlord. Do you happen to need some accolytes, Mrs?"
Cultist 1: "Seconded."
Cultist 2: "No kidding."
Cultist 4: "Actually, I'm out of here. I promised mom I'll be home by eleven anyway."
(Disclaimer: it's fiction.)
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