egghead science: LHC or we're all going to die

[hellbent]

Soooooo theyre going to be firing this up soon:

Large Hadron Collider

The LHC is being built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.[1] It is funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
The collider is currently undergoing commissioning while being cooled down to its final operating temperature of approximately 1.9 K (−271.25 °C). The first particle beams are due for injection in August 2008, with the first collisions planned to take place about two months later.[2]
When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.[3][1] The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized novel particles that might be produced, and for which searches[4] are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles.[5]

click for an awesome huge pic of gordon freeman and the death star!:


the other end of this portal empties out into john malkovichs' head:


So. Who thinks the world is going to crack open and Mist like creatures are going to come out?

[standardman]

Here comes tomorrow!

[jeffdrafttech]

'member what happened to Jupiter in 2010?

What's the diff really, even if they did give birth to a star (which is sci fi). We die eventually no matter what. The only real death would be our protien replication, and I really don't care about that (it kind of pisses me off to be a puppet of that molicule anyhow).

It's pretty sweet that they'll be able to test some untested hypotheses with it. All hail the god that is science, and the doctrine of doubt. Brilliance is in admitting you could be wrong.

[typicallistener]

don't be scared of science, faggot

[jeffdrafttech]

Originally Posted by typicallistener

don't be scared of science, faggot

I know you aint talkin to me, little bitch

[typicallistener]

Originally Posted by jeffdrafttech

I know you aint talkin to me, little bitch

yup

[jeffdrafttech]

Originally Posted by typicallistener

yup

First, I'm sorry that you assumed my post was sarcastic. I didn't write it for simple minded people.

Second: do you typically answer to little bitch? Drink a couple more nat-lights so I can fuck with your avatar agian

[typicallistener]

Originally Posted by jeffdrafttech

First, I'm sorry that you assumed my post was sarcastic.

i forgive you

[typicallistener]

xxx

[jeffdrafttech]

Originally Posted by typicallistener

xxx

OOO

Newsey kisses (not that there's anything wrong with that)