Somehere below the Swiss/French border ...
... there lies the most powerful machine thing in the world ... the Large Hadron Collider ...
Okay, so you have no idea what this is but billions of your pounds or dollars or euros have gone into building it and this is what it is:
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe.
Now what is significant about telling you about it now (before it could be too late and you get swallowed up into an absolutely tiny or rather massive black hole) is that according to the countdown timer on the LHC Countdown website there are about 2 days and 7 hours .... rather depending on when you are reading this ... before they switch it on with a vengeance to go searching for the illusive and exclusively reclusive Higgs Boson, better known as the 'God particle'.
After this allocated period of time scientists (and I hope the rest of us) will be able to see the universe born again and again and again about 30 million times a second.
That should keep them busy for a bit !
“We are now on the endgame,” said Lyn Evans, of Cern, who has been in charge of the Large Hadron Collider. ... just not too sure that the definition of 'end game' is one I am confident about.
Its worth having a read of the countdown page and if you have any paranoias then it will certainly manage to feed them.
Hope I can add a PS to this post in about 3 days time ... I do hope these physicists know what they are doing.
Of course this could just be another web hoax ... couldn't it?
posted by Doug @ 15:51
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Well there we go.. obviously time to say So long and thanks for all the fish (Douglas Adams)
It is no Internet joke.
The project employees most of the worlds particle physicists.
But some scientists believe that the project should be delayed for as long as necessary to prove that the experiment will not destroy the planet.
That is no joke either, neither is the lawsuit in US Federal Court seeking an injunction until reasonable safety can be proven and verified.
LHCFacts.org
"The clock is ticking!" My next comment is being repeated for those who have not read it yet! CERN is aware of these, and most comments being made on the Internet!!!
With half of the 'Standard Model' missing, shrouded in a mathematical haze of pure speculation, there is absolutely no way of telling what awaits CERN! It will take these experiments to extricate the physics community, from their stagnated, depressing, and quagmired current positions! At least one sector of the 'Standard Model' shall receive a tsunami of change, that will send the mathematicians and physicists scrambling wildly (within their 'clicks'), to hurriedly install these new, very much needed corrections, upon our view of 'reality'! There is no doubt, that the future world desperate energy needs lie in LHC technologies; however, the production course should be traveled with extreme caution! The LSAG 'safety report' covers only lower energy 2008 'start-up' operation projections, and speaks nothing toward the pre-planned decade of precision energy upgrades to come, set to begin in 2009! This same report only covers previous public dockets of concern, and nothing about the 'new' emerging risk assessment meetings, that are going on 'Behind Closed Doors'! CERN is grappling with multiple variance-calculation paradoxes, even as Michelangelo Mangano (and others) penned the now famous 'quiet the public' 'Safe- Status' safety report! Two such situations are known: #1. CERN uncertainty RE: Quantum Time-Dilation Contraction-Calibration Equations, used for particle beam control timing/focus to maximize the collisions per/second for opimum 'impact moment', which are detector analyzed. This line of equations must be precise, or facility damage may result (this is also in regard to #2)! #2. CERN ALICE heavy (Pb) ion collisions, scheduled to begin (once financed) in 2009. The ALICE project generates hyper-density plasmatic fields, that could affect a gravitational curvature, thus producing a compression singularity vortex, with an event-horizon expansion. This is known as the expanded: Einstein-Rosen Bridge: QUANTUM WORMHOLE! Director General Robert Aymar, Catherine Decosse (ALICE), Michelangelo Mangano, Stephen Hawking, CERN Theory Unit, and LSAG evaluations are in progress, at this time!
IMPORTANT: At the web-link below, there is a pulbic opinion poll RE: CERN LHC/ALICE/ATLAS. This is being viewed worldwide, so please read, and when you are ready Vote the Poll! 'The pen is mightier than the sword, but an opinion can alter the fate of a World!' The poll closes October 17, 2008. Thank You!
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