'birth of universe' OR 'end of world'

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On September 10, a machine costing a staggering $7.75 billion will be fired up to recapture conditions not seen since the birth of the universe almost 14 billion years ago.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/08/hadroncollider108.xml

Handing the deluge of data will mark a test for the next generation of computing, called The Grid or "the cloud", and the biggest development in global communication since Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the internet, wrote "www" on a blackboard in 1989 on the site of the huge machine.

The backbone of the grid will be computer centres filled with thousands of PCs linked together. The biggest concentration is the 80,000 PCs in a "farm" at the Large Hadron Collider, part of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known by its French acronym CERN, near Geneva.

Or, in terms of iPod data, the annual output of the atom smasher is equivalent to a song running for 24,000 years.
 
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I don't believe that they're going to collide particles for a month or more yet. That's when the fun is going to begin. If the majority of the scientific community think that this will produce a 'mini black hole' that will swallow the Earth, then I'm not going to bother making my mortgage payment next month!
 
Forgive them Father...............


It reminds me of the atom bomb. Fine to be able to figure out how to do it but they still haven't figured out how to undo it or even defend it. That was an experiment too.

(this stuff truly scares the bejezzus out of me and I don't usually scare easily)
 
If they do produce a black hole, it will prove my theory that Europe SUCKS.
 
DanC said:
If they do produce a black hole, it will prove my theory that Europe SUCKS.
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If they do produce a "black hole", wouldn't it be easier for people to "fill the void"?:convinced:

Druvans.......kudos on an awesome avatar! :claps:
 
I agree, I have avatar envy!
 
I'm not envious of yours, I can turn you off in a heartbeat.
 
DanC said:
I'm not envious of yours, I can turn you off in a heartbeat.
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What made you think that you turn me on in the first place? :convinced: LOL

but.....we must get back the black hole.... :focus:
 
you forget, I'm an electrical engineer and you're a mere light switch.
 
DanC said:
you forget, I'm an electrical engineer and you're a mere light switch.
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Great.......now I have to constantly watch my back in order not to get re-wired, grounded, blow the fuse, or even worse, get poked with a screwdriver! :suspect:
 
you're in no danger from me
 
Famous last words.....your avatar does not look convincing...
 
I am just not comforted;

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_sc/big_bang

"This is a machine of enormous complexity. Things can go wrong at any time. But this morning has been a great start."

"The start of the collider came over the objections of some who feared the collision of protons could eventually imperil the Earth by creating micro-black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.

"It's nonsense," said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN.

CERN was backed by leading scientists like Britain's Stephen Hawking , who declared the experiments to be absolutely safe."

Since scientists are never been wrong about anything :convinced: I feel sooooooooooo silly but for some reason I'm still concerned.

What next? A cure for cancer? A cure for the common cold? Or just more useless and worthless challenges of God.
 
DanC - it seems like you need to continue paying your mortgage.
 
They didn't do a collision yesterday. As I understand it, yesterday's run was the first time they sent particles all the way around the ring.
They're trying to get us off guard.
I'm just content to know that IF they do produce a black hole and it starts swallowing the world, France is going first.

Jerry, don't worry about god being challenged, He can take care of Himself, and nothing's going to happen without prior approval.


Excerpt of news article:
GENEVA (AP) - The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:36 a.m. (0836 GMT) indicating that the protons had traveled the full length of the US$3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider.

"There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap.

Champagne corks popped in labs as far away as Chicago, where contributing scientists watched the proceedings by satellite. Physicists around the world now have much greater power than ever before to smash the components of atoms together in attempts to see how they are made.

"Well done everybody," said Robert Aymar, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, to cheers from the assembled scientists in the collider's control room at the Swiss-French border.

The organization, known by its French acronym CERN, began firing the protons - a type of subatomic particle - around the tunnel in stages less than an hour earlier.

Now that the beam has been successfully tested in clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise. Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe.
 
So long....

And thanks for all the fish.
 
Dan, are you feeling ok? Your avatar looks to be in a tad bit of pain there.
 
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