LHC currently at required power, collisions about to start soon !

[Timo]

They finally reached 1.21 Gigawatts 3.5TeV and they're going to collide the beams soon!

Watch a black hole appear via this live stream: http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/


e: can someone move this to TT, tia

[Kornman00]

Nonsense, you won't be able to watch the black hole appear as it will be microscopic and will absorb the surrounding light :downs:


damn web filter blocking streaming media :|

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Korn will die 0.005 seconds before me if this goes off :realsmug:

[p0lar_bear]

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Shiiii-

[ejburke]

A micro black hole that somehow didn't instantly explode and was somehow able to consume the Earth, despite the multitude of physical reasons why it would be unable to do any damage, would grow to the whopping size of a marble.

[Timo]

Well we're all dead, congratulations :\

[Timo]

Some of the first images taken:
http://timo.modacity.net/pix/CERN/1003053_03.jpg
http://timo.modacity.net/pix/CERN/1003053_04.jpg
http://timo.modacity.net/pix/CERN/1003055_03.jpg
http://timo.modacity.net/pix/CERN/1003055_08.jpg
http://timo.modacity.net/pix/CERN/1003058_01.jpg
http://timo.modacity.net/pix/CERN/1003058_06.jpg
http://timo.modacity.net/pix/CERN/1003060_03.jpg


:F

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

so is we gonna die or not?
(lol)

[Sanya]

A micro black hole that somehow didn't instantly explode and was somehow able to consume the Earth, despite the multitude of physical reasons why it would be unable to do any damage, would grow to the whopping size of a marble.

More like the size of a large pea... don't scare everyone like that :(

[Cortexian]

so is we gonna die or not?
(lol)
No.

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Did the machine die?
(lol)

[Kornman00]

will this bring back the unicorns?
(lol)


on a more serious note...what am I suppose to be seeing in some of those images timo :v:. like the first one

[Cortexian]

Did the machine die?
(lol)
No.


will this bring back the unicorns?
(lol)
No.

[Timo]

will this bring back the unicorns?
(lol)


on a more serious note...what am I suppose to be seeing in some of those images timo :v:. like the first one

I don't know :science:

I'm just assuming it's the trajectories of the subatomic particles released in the collision :F

[Kornman00]

I'm just assuming it's the trajectories of the subatomic particles released in the collision :F
So...there is still a possibilty that they actually represent how to bring back unicorns!

[Good_Apollo]

Some of the first images taken:
:Images:So...we found God?

[Timo]

So...there is still a possibilty that they actually represent how to bring back unicorns!

yeah i'm fairly certain if they run the experiment in reverse they'll create unicorns

[Kornman00]

I knew it :realsmug:

[Reaper Man]

So...we found God?
Way to try too hard, buddy.

This is great, they finally fired the thing, about damn time.

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Needs more shoop da woop now that they fired the lazer.

[CN3089]

http://timo.modacity.net/pix/CERN/1003060_03.jpg

woah guys check it out it's the higgs boson~!

[Con]

i totally see it
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/1259/capturelzw.png

[ejburke]

Don't anybody accidentally google, "Large Hard-on Collider". Trust me, you do not want to be the first to observe the theoretical gay porn stars known as Lance Higgs and Trevor Boson in action.

[Dwood]

What are we looking for in these collisions to find?

[=sw=warlord]

What are we looking for in these collisions to find?
They hope to gain some information about the universe just after the big bang and are looking for a theoretical particle called the higgs boson.

[Hunter]

Which will help us how?

[CN3089]

"special relativity? man, how is that going to help us? einstein you are just wasting our time"

[n00b1n8R]

PROTIP: they only fired this thing at 50%

[Timo]

PROTIP: they only fired this thing at 50%

hurr durr


Also if anyone's looked up at the sky recently you will have noticed that the earth has spontaneously shifted to another universe, where everything is exactly the same. This switch happens every time a collision occurs - 100 times a second

[Hunter]

But what exactly do they want with this research?

[Timo]

There are particles missing in particle physics that their current models can predict, but they have never found. Think of it like how the guy who made the periodic table holes in places he knew an element existed, but was yet to be discovered.

[Bodzilla]

as well as more information cant be a bad thing for society

[Syuusuke]

It's like going to space,

except not.

[Bodzilla]

good thing to know that we're still surrounded by bean counters as opposed to people that are willing to sacrifice money to achieve previously unthinkable goals.

go count your beans some place else, this is r science.