[SCIENCE] Large Hadron Collider: Atom Collision at Speed of Light to Discover the Building Blocks of UNIVERSE!

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Shepperd

#121 September 21, 2008, 02:55:34 am

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great, a couple of more weeks to not worry about dying

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Bizzle

#122 September 21, 2008, 03:34:29 am

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Broke already?? Must've been built by Ikea. HaHaHaHa *choke*

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datamanc3r

#123 September 21, 2008, 06:02:10 am

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That blows. This really pisses me off -- you would think that they'd be just a bit more careful in maintaining this expensive equipment. And get good security for it, too. What a bunch of dumbasses.

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Bizzle

#124 September 21, 2008, 04:15:09 pm

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Quote from: Juris on September 21, 2008, 06:02:10 am

What a bunch of dumbasses.

Oh, yeah?? Where's your hadron collider??

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dom

#125 September 21, 2008, 05:32:32 pm

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Quote from: Juris on September 21, 2008, 06:02:10 am

That blows. This really pisses me off -- you would think that they'd be just a bit more careful in maintaining this expensive equipment. And get good security for it, too. What a bunch of dumbasses.

ahhahahah are you serious

edit: ths is the fucking large hadron collider and you expect everything to go perfectly and not have any problems

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Frisky SKeleton

#126 September 21, 2008, 07:41:50 pm

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YEAH MAN IT'S REALLY LARGE

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Mince Wobley

#127 September 21, 2008, 08:16:14 pm

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Whenever there is a topic about a machine scientists built the last thing anyone in GW would ever consider is that it fails I think it must be because scientists never make mistakes and everything they make is impervious to murphy's law

Play Raimond Ex (if you haven't already)

I'll not TAKE ANYTHING you write like this seriously because it looks dumb

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Frisky SKeleton

#128 September 21, 2008, 08:22:09 pm

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Murphy's law is a law

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Boulvae

#129 September 21, 2008, 10:31:33 pm

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Well I am not surpirsed, I mean they themselves said this thing was really sensitive. And really sensitive things tend to break easily, but I believe that they are smart enough to build something they are capable of fixing should it break.

A tool is a tool regardless. I mean if you suck, you suck, and not even the most perfect tool could save you. And if your damn good then even with the worst tool ever conceived you could chug out some high quality shit.

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Beasley

#130 September 21, 2008, 10:56:23 pm

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i feel a machine like this could FUCK UP BADLY if a fly landed in the wrong place at the wrong time so i am not surprised at all

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dada

#131 September 21, 2008, 11:17:48 pm

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Quote from: Beasley on September 21, 2008, 10:56:23 pm

i feel a machine like this could FUCK UP BADLY if a fly landed in the wrong place at the wrong time so i am not surprised at all

It would be kind of funny to see what would happen to the fly if it were in the LHC while particle collision was going on (this is impossible, though, since it's sealed off). Theoretically it might get pierced by superinflated protons about 10000 times per second. Imagine being shot 10000 times per second!

EDIT: actually it might even be more like taking a snowball 10000 times per second, except the snowballs are moving at the speed of light!

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Mince Wobley

#132 September 22, 2008, 12:01:41 am

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Maybe nothing would happen dada?

Play Raimond Ex (if you haven't already)

I'll not TAKE ANYTHING you write like this seriously because it looks dumb

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Farren

#133 September 22, 2008, 01:31:24 am

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you'd be disentigrated I know I spelled that wrong but I'm not going back

DEUCE: MEETING THE URINE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL AND REALIZING IT'S JUST LIKE ME AND MY PREJUDICES THIS WHOLE TIME WERE COMPLETELY FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF PTTTTHTHTHH GOD IT'S EVERYWHERE<br />DEUCE: FUCK THIS TASTES LIKE PISS<br />PANTS: WHERE IT SHOULD TASTE LIKE COTTON CANDY OR PICKLES<br />DEUCE: OR AT LEAST LIKE URINE NOT PISS

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datamanc3r

#134 September 22, 2008, 03:38:02 am

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Human fallibility bla bla bla whatever guys. This looks to me to be more like an avoidable oversight than an accident.

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"Preliminary investigations suggest that the most likely cause of the problem was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets, which probably melted at high current leading to mechanical failure,'' Mr Gilles said

How do you not check, double check, triple check, and quadruple check to make sure that your connections are safe before you fire up your equipment? Seriously, you would think that after $6 billion dollars people would make sure the thing is, I don't know, safe to use without damaging itself? For a project as awesome as this is, it's insane and stupid that we have to go through this. Guys we're trying to find the fundamental building blocks of the universe. And right now, we have to wait, because of some engineer dumbass who probably didn't adhere to proper protocol.

Murphy's "Law" my ass. You guys can use that kind of shoddy logic to defend Sony's distribution of 'sploding batteries.

Quote from: Bizzle on September 21, 2008, 04:15:09 pm

Oh, yeah?? Where's your hadron collider??

Don't need one. I maintain a perfectly working hardon collider in my pants.

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Bizzle

#135 September 22, 2008, 03:50:28 am

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Don't need one. I maintain a perfectly working hardon collider in my pants.

And, I'm sure like theirs, it no longer works properly.

But seriously, this should've been expected, ~~Swiss crap never works~~. I mean look how many accidents scientists went through when they attempted space travel before they invented a rocket capable of such a feat. Trial & Error.

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dom

#136 September 22, 2008, 01:28:23 pm

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Quote from: Juris on September 22, 2008, 03:38:02 am

Human fallibility bla bla bla whatever guys. This looks to me to be more like an avoidable oversight than an accident.How do you not check, double check, triple check, and quadruple check to make sure that your connections are safe before you fire up your equipment? Seriously, you would think that after $6 billion dollars people would make sure the thing is, I don't know, safe to use without damaging itself? For a project as awesome as this is, it's insane and stupid that we have to go through this. Guys we're trying to find the fundamental building blocks of the universe. And right now, we have to wait, because of some engineer dumbass who probably didn't adhere to proper protocol.

do you know how many magnets are in the LHC? not every failure is predictable

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EvilDemonCreature

#137 September 22, 2008, 01:58:26 pm

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Quote from: Juris on September 22, 2008, 03:38:02 am

Don't need one. I maintain a perfectly working hardon collider in my pants.

Looks like someone is trying to compensate.

I bet if you had the cash for it, you would buy an extremely large, powerful, penis-shaped vehicle.

But you do have a point. I mean, apparently the guy in charge of the project doesn't even know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek! It's our own damn fault for letting someone without the proper nerd credentials take charge of such an important nerd-related project!

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dada

#138 September 22, 2008, 05:28:40 pm

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Quote from: Mince Wobley on September 22, 2008, 12:01:41 am

Maybe nothing would happen dada?

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-07/say-im-inside-large-hadron-collider-and-its-revving-should-i-be-concerned

"If engineers were to lose control of the beam, however, watch out. The beam is only one millimeter wide, yet it contains 320 trillion protons moving just shy of the speed of light. (That gives it about the same momentum as a 400-ton train speeding at 95 mph.) It would plow through the magnets and unleash a fatal cascade of high-energy particles and radiation."

I wouldn't want to be inside of it while it's turned on!

Still, you'd never get that far because the thing's vacuumed.

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#139 September 22, 2008, 05:40:12 pm

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Quote from: EvilDemonCreature on September 22, 2008, 01:58:26 pm

It's our own damn fault for letting someone without the proper nerd credentials take charge of such an important nerd-related project!

He didn't have time to watch Star Trek or Star Wars because he was busy studying about how to make a LHC

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Frisky SKeleton

#140 September 22, 2008, 07:52:52 pm

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The actual collider cost around $400,000 in material to build. It was a million for the land they put it through. The rest was wages for the scientists involved, top minds of the world demand top pay.

I wonder how some of the best brains messed up a calculation that makes them stay on the project another 2 months. Dollar dollar bill yo.

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