Have you guys heard of this insane contraption?!





It's called the Large Hardon Collider:
-20 years in the making
-$4 Billion Dollars
-2000 Scientists

With this CERN project, physicists hope to cross a new frontier of knowledge by resolving questions of science. One, in particular, is pinpointing the elusive Higgs boson, a key “building block” particle that can help explain why all other particles have mass.

I believe they will be conducting this experiment sometime this October, where they'll collide two atoms at the speed of light into in each other, in hopes of discovering the very fundamental building blocks of matter, and why they have mass.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17399245

Frankly, I don't know TOO much about quantum physics, string theory, quarks, higgan bosons, etc. so if anyone does, shed some light on this in laymen's terms!

It's either gonna be bitchin' or kill everything. I'm rooting for the first of the two.

I think it is interesting, but what happens if they don't find that higgs boson?

It's either gonna be bitchin' or kill everything. I'm rooting for the first of the two.

no there is no more chance of this happened than on any other day, listen to the actual scientists.

I think it is interesting, but what happens if they don't find that higgs boson?

It doesn't matter, really.  Finding it would be great, but the LHC is doing a LOT more than just that.  Stephen Hawking made a bet that they wouldn't find many answers to the questions that exist now, but they will open up realms of science previously unimagined. 

Also, it's not finding the fundamental building blocks of life, but the fundamental building blocks of everything in the universe.

Didn't Final Fantasy VII cost at least like $6 billion to make

LARGE HARDON COLLIDER who the fuck names these things

its hadron, not hardon.

and im pretty sure they don't speed them up to light speed, only really close (96.12%?)

seems like a huge waste of money for something that could potentially destroy the entire machine

seems like a huge waste of money for something that could potentially destroy the entire machine

i read in a science journal that the 4billion spent on the project wasn't the cost of the machinery - they have 17 or 18 copies in the basement - but the cost of twenty years of chinese takeaway(it takes a lot of food energy to create a hardon that big)

the potential to destroy the entire "machine" (did you mean to say universe??) is small anyway and only idiots still think it will destroy the universe. it wont create any black holes, and if it does, it will be so small that it will fizzle out almost instantly.

the problem here is that it's a completely different type of hardon than that which we are typically familiar. i mean, even the largest of the large hardons are relatively harmless as long as you don't get too close to it, but look at the size of this fucking thing. i'm not saying it'll destroy the universe, but the possibility is there for it to fuck our planet pretty hard.

i am double-posting to give my apologies for this!!!



usually i am better at resisting these sorts of terrible opportunities