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4 Days until the end of the world.
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Cal
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Maybe.
no [Poor language removed], my surname is higgs, didn't know my ancestors lived in space!!!
i apologise for the behaviour of my scientific heritage.
i apologise for the behaviour of my scientific heritage.
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
The Unobstructed View
and you also know your ancestors job........boson
Cal
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Never mind - there will still be a parallel universe where The [Poor language removed]'s season ends in September - even if all of ours on this planet might end this September.
TD
Oh dear.
Year 3014, Liverpool fan: "If it hadn't of been for the world ending in 2008, we would of won the Prem, without a doubt, dead certs us.
Dom1878
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BBC iPlayer - The Big Bang Machine - interesting...
Seamus Colemole
Previously deathbyropeandglass
Watched a program about this last week. Didn't understand most of it but i can safely say frommy expert knowledge of the subject that the world will not be ending on Wednesday.
But who knows. Certainly very interesting to see exactly what does happen when it all goes off, hopefully something big will be discovered and we learn a lot more than we already know.
But who knows. Certainly very interesting to see exactly what does happen when it all goes off, hopefully something big will be discovered and we learn a lot more than we already know.
Sharpys top lip
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Aparently they forgot to put money on the eletric meter. So it's been put back by two weeks now.
toffeestillidie
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test happened today
set my alarm to wake up for it (it was at 3:30 am eastern), but i somehow turned it off in my sleep (almost slept through class too)
as far as i can tell, the entire world hasn't been destroyed, but i can't be positive.
set my alarm to wake up for it (it was at 3:30 am eastern), but i somehow turned it off in my sleep (almost slept through class too)
as far as i can tell, the entire world hasn't been destroyed, but i can't be positive.
Chris
a whole wheel of cheese?
I listened to Radio 4 all day and followed their "Big Bang" blog on their website.
Was pretty awesome stuff! Some proper comedy moments too. The beam wouldn't fire the first 2 attempts. On the third attempt the director counted it down "5..4..3.......2......hahahahahaha yeah....1...........erm Nothing............. OH THERE IT GOES YAAAAAY" made me laugh that.
So they got the clockwise beam to go round the 17mile long track in under an hour. Previous colliders have taken 12 hours to achieve that. So they also sent the beam round the other way which they hadn't really expected to do today.
So the full test has worked(including both observation 'camera' stations on the ring) but only at 1/5 of the 'normal operating speed' and only with 1 beam active at a time (they haven't actually collided the beams yet!).
It will be days before they perform a collision apparently. Weeks before they perform one at operating speed. Months before they push the ring to maximum speed.
The times quoted Stephen Hawking as saying he had placed a £100 bet that the experiment would not yield a Higgs Boson particle (which is kinda the whole point of the machine). He also said that they were unlikely to create any blackholes. A less than 1% chance apparently.
So. Historic day today
We took a small step forward today as a race. Sadly it probably passed 70% of the population by as they were too busy worrying about their ipod or how much things cost or some other benign junk that just doesn't matter at all in the greater scheme of things.
Was pretty awesome stuff! Some proper comedy moments too. The beam wouldn't fire the first 2 attempts. On the third attempt the director counted it down "5..4..3.......2......hahahahahaha yeah....1...........erm Nothing............. OH THERE IT GOES YAAAAAY" made me laugh that.
So they got the clockwise beam to go round the 17mile long track in under an hour. Previous colliders have taken 12 hours to achieve that. So they also sent the beam round the other way which they hadn't really expected to do today.
So the full test has worked(including both observation 'camera' stations on the ring) but only at 1/5 of the 'normal operating speed' and only with 1 beam active at a time (they haven't actually collided the beams yet!).
It will be days before they perform a collision apparently. Weeks before they perform one at operating speed. Months before they push the ring to maximum speed.
The times quoted Stephen Hawking as saying he had placed a £100 bet that the experiment would not yield a Higgs Boson particle (which is kinda the whole point of the machine). He also said that they were unlikely to create any blackholes. A less than 1% chance apparently.
So. Historic day today
We took a small step forward today as a race. Sadly it probably passed 70% of the population by as they were too busy worrying about their ipod or how much things cost or some other benign junk that just doesn't matter at all in the greater scheme of things.
teppic
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badda boom!
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