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LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting
An anonymous reader writes "Only four days after the first attempt to send a particle beam around the LHC, we have arrived at the point when all four experiments got their first real collisions from the machine. This was met by celebrations and champagne, as people have been waiting years and years for this moment. It is a testament to the engineering of the machine that collisions were reached already, so few days after restarting. The LHC had already demonstrated ca 10h stable beams, and now also stable beams in both directions at the same time. In the coming weeks, we need only wait for increased intensity and the first attempts at acceleration."
I, for one, welcome our new subatomic overlords.
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As I learned in driver's ed: collisions are bad.
and because this is the LHC, this must mean the end of the world
I don't understand because we're still two years away from Dec 21st 2012
Is the LHC insured for collisions?
...when should we throw our end-of-the-world parties?
Today. I've already maxed out my credit cards and slept with the neighbors wife. I'd imagine he's gonna be pretty ticked off when he finds out but I'm hoping the LHC destroys the planet before he gets home ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
LAST POST!!!!1
Apparently the future has given up its battle against the LHC. Take that, Nature!
There will be a continuous string of technical problems preventing the big kahuna right up until 2012. How long you want to party is up to you.
sudo ergo sum
It's akin to a pitcher throwing a few warmup pitches...
Huh?
Could you put that into a car analogy?
A few small points of information for you:
Your neighbor actually won't be ticked off when he finds out. Quite the contrary, he's gonna be highly aroused and in the mood for a wet & messy threesome. He's also extremely well endowed and has been eyeing you for some time already.
So in summary, you're still hoping the LHC destroys the planet before he gets home.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
"The LHC was shut down again today due to an accident involving a champagne cork."
Its like a weabo revving the engine of his pimped out ricer at a stoplight. Don't worry, there is a pretty decent chance it will throw a rod when he actually puts it in gear.
Sounds like they should have used a switch instead of a hub. Then there wouldn't be collisions.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
What about the Poop concentration?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
It was very cool to be in the control room when the first collision took place =)
I have to say, you kept the coffee fresh, even though you forgot to add sweetener to mine.
The opposite of progress is congress
its like the warm up laps at Talledega (NASCAR) before they throw the green flag. You know there is going to be a big collision after the start, you just don't know when and how big. For the End of the World it would be if all 43 cars got wrecked so bad that not one could continue the race. Game over.
Life is a great ride, the vehicle doesn't matter
Hurp durp two year old video game reference. i get it. you're so funny.
According to xkcd, he's still three years early.
If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
It's akin to a car throwing a few warmup pitches.
And there is a live video feed available here: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
Isn't that what the Windows 7 release parties were for?
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I want to buy a snowglobe with a miniature blackhole in it.
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Cool picture. My particle physics is a bit rusty, but let's see now... green line distribution seems normal... yellow squiggles there and THERE... hmmm... I see there's more red blocks than blue blocks... ah, yes...
Congratulations, it's a boy!
Uh, yeah, about that. We're kind of swamped up here with all the new souls looking to get in, so we've decided to fast track certain predominantly Godless groups to eternal damnation. You're now stuck at work.
Forever.
Respectfully yours,
The Archon V2.0
Trainee mortal/immortal liason, New Media Department, Heaven.
This puts another spin on the black hole theories I guess...Now I am recalling images of goatse.cx, damn you, damn you all
Could you put that into a car analogy?
Certainly.
A particle bunch in the LHC is presently being handled as though it were a young driver that has recently been issued a provisional drivers license. In the same way that smart parents will provide their new commuters with low power, unexciting vehicles to discourage reckless behaviour, the LHC particles are being denied high levels of energy to prevent any additional unintended excursions.
Just as new drivers suffer a high probability of making mistakes due to inexperience, high energy particles in the LHC are liable to reveal (additional) unknown flaws in the design or construction of the facility. By limiting energy levels the effects of any failures will hopefully be minimal, just as a Volvo 740 wagon that can barely break 60mph due to its 190K miles is less likely to kill you when it slides into a ditch than is a Turbo Carrera disintegrating as it rolls at 210mph.
Note that this analogy fails when one considers that drivers are trained to avoid collision, whereas LHC particles are intended to experience many collisions.
BadAnalogyGuy is supposed to be handling these sort of illustrations, but he has been slacking of late.
Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
Read carefully:
It's a HADRON collider.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Leave it to dyslexics to have a large hadron colliding with things....
Given that the LHC is under the French/Swiss border, I was wondering what import/export paperwork the CERN operators need to fill in (and tariffs to pay) every time the beam travels from one country to another .... :-)
Will it blend?
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.
I know. You'd have to be a really strange person to think this sort of thing is in any way charming. If it were up to me, I'd moderate all of them down.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
2012 has no relevance to anything.
It's almost a palindrome. That's gotta mean something.
It's also nearly 13 years after the year 2000, and we all know how unlucky the number 13 is.
There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!