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LHC Success!
Tomahawk writes "It worked! The LHC was turned on this morning and has been shown to have worked. Engineers cheered as the proton particles completed their first circuit of the underground ring which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
(And we're all still alive, too!)" Here is a picture from the control room which I'm sure makes sense to someone that isn't me.
Its hard to over state my satisfaction!
How does that differ from any other astrophysicist?
Einstein is the last physicist that I remember actually did something productive with his theories. But there was also a big war going on and the us was OK to fund the ultimate weapon. As Nuclear Weapons have reached the good enough stage that we don't need anything more powerful, as our current set is scary enough. The funding for LHC has been a greater success then, then the productive science it will produce for the near future. However Science for Science sake does have a value, which we shouldn't just go why did we wast all this money. As Decades and Centuries go on the Theoretical Science becomes practically used. Just as Newtons 3 laws didn't effect much in the world until the 19th century. Time will tell.
There is also a lot of good science over time that will be discredited or modified. Such as classifications of animals where back a hundred years ago they were on a linear line. Humans are the top of evolution list then all mammals, then birds, reptiles, infibians (cant spell it correctly today sorry), Fish, Shelled Invertebrates, Soft Invertebrates...
Over time we took this linear view and made it more to a tree. So for example in brain development we Found that some birds have more advance brains then some mammals, Even som Soft Invertebrates (Octopuses for example), who have been put at the bottom of the evolution list, have very advance brains more then some mammals.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Even if you had the energy required, you'd still have a colossal problem with timing, since you would have to emit each atom at exactly the right time to chemically bind with its neighbours, and since you get uncertainty playing a major role at this scale I'm not even sure if it's impossible or just computationally unfeasible.
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Yeah, but if the world is destroyed, wouldn't money be pretty pointless?
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Hang on; if you had a piece of fairy cake, then couldn't you just use that matter to extrapolate information about hadron collisions elsewhere in space?
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