CERN - Hadron Supercollider - "God Particle" - News - Discussion - Updates - Found July 4, 2012?

[Judee]

.......And proves that they don't have a good handle on this technology.

Yeah, and that makes the whole thing even scarier!

[VOguy]

Too bad we couldn't commission a few people with some bunker busters.

[Alpha]

Seems like other life on this planet are much more intelligent that we are!! Nature 1 - Tech 0 on this one....

Big bang goes phut as bird drops baguette into Cern machinery


It is the machine that scientists hope will recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time. But scientists at the £3.6bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found their plans to emulate the big bang postponed this week when a passing bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into the machine, causing it to overheat.

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[VOguy]

Actually, this Cern project is all #2, if you know what I mean.

[Alpha]

I fear they don't really know what they're messing with....

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Theory: Large Hadron Collider Could Open Unknown Portals


A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or "unknown unknowns" - for instance "an extra dimension".

"Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it," said Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN, briefing reporters including the Reg at CERN HQ earlier this week...............................

Naturally, some extremely strange phenomena are to be expected when one mangles the very fabric of space-time itself in this fashion. Various eccentric nutballs have claimed that this would doom humanity in one fashion or another; perhaps converting the entire Earth, everything on it and possibly the rest of the universe too into "strangelet soup", monopole mulligatawny or some other sort of frightful sub-particulate blancmange or custard.......

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[earthist]

Heck, they've already discovered that the Big Bang Theory is really the Big Baguette Theory.

[Divinorumus]

Ah, them mad scientists just won't give it up, will they. They won't be satisfied until they pull the cork from the genie bottle and release the demon within themselves. Well, what happens when they can't put it back after they realize their mistake? They should just stop now and put all that junk up for sale on eBay and knock this dangerous nonsense off. I could use a couple of those magnets for my own experiments.

LHC May Be Colliding Particle Beams In a Week

The much-maligned Large Hadron Collider may finally be colliding beams next week, according to Wired. CERN reports that particles are shooting along 6 of 8 sectors and the last 2 sectors will be activated next week. Barring any sudden singularities or other inconveniences, collisions should begin shortly after next week. eek!

In the meantime, scientists working at Fermilab’s Tevatron, the current leader of the high-energy particle physics world, have been furiously collecting data. They are hoping to find the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle that would support the Standard Model of physics before the LHC sneaks in and grabs the glory.

... And on another front, thousand of shaman, witches, and warlocks, are casting their spells and incantations hoping a pink elephant will drop a turd on all this before it's too late. Hey, what if they discover something far worse than nuclear technology and we start having to contend with nations like North Korea having a bomb that could crack the whole planet in half? Gawd, how dumb can these dangerous infestations be.

[Divinorumus]

You know .. just in case (lol) ...

"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
Should I die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take."

Big Bang machine nears restart
AAP November 18, 2009, 3:54 am

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research says it expects to restart the world's largest atom smasher by this weekend after more than a year of repairs.

Spokesman James Gillies says scientists have refrained from setting an exact date for sending beams of protons around the 27-kilometre circular tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC.

He says the organisation known as CERN is taking its time with the sophisticated equipment, which is much more powerful than any such machine in the world.

The machine was launched with great fanfare last year before suffering a spectacular failure from a bad electrical connection, damaging 53 of the smasher's 9,300 superconducting magnets.

[Alpha]

Heck, they've already discovered that the Big Bang Theory is really the Big Baguette Theory.

...I missed this when you originally posted it earthist....my coffee just about went all over the place.... ....good one!!

[Divinorumus]

Get ready to be sucked into a black hole, humons! Twas nice knowing ya'll.

Re-start for 'Big Bang' machine
By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has been re-started after a hiatus of 14 months.

Engineers working on the machine achieved a stable, circulating proton beam just after 2100 GMT on Friday.

The LHC is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel about 100m beneath the French-Swiss border.

The experiment is designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid to shed light on the nature of the Universe.

More soon.

[Alpha]

This video is 2 years old, however it's a nice tour and summary IMO

On November, 2007 the most complex scientific instrument ever built will be switched on. The Large Hadron Collider promises to recreate the conditions in the early universe. By revisiting the beginning of time, scientists hope to unravel some of the deepest secrets of our Universe.

Within these first few moments the building blocks of the Universe were formed. The search for these fundamental particles has occupied scientists for decades but there remains one particle that has stubbornly refused to appear in any
experiment. The Higgs Boson is so crucial to our understanding of the Universe that it has been dubbed the God particle. It explains how fundamental particles acquire mass, or as one scientist plainly states: "It is what makes stuff
stuff..."

Other parts HERE

[Alpha]

For those that may want a bit more detail on what they think they're looking for....

What exactly is the Higgs boson? Have physicists proved that it really exists?


"Over the past few decades, particle physicists have developed an elegant theoretical model (the Standard Model) that gives a framework for our current understanding of the fundamental particles and forces of nature.

One major ingredient in this model is a hypothetical, ubiquitous quantum field that is supposed to be responsible for giving particles their masses (this field would answer the basic question of why particles have the masses they do--or indeed, why they have any mass at all).

This field is called the Higgs field. As a consequence of wave-particle duality, all quantum fields have a fundamental particle associated with them. The particle associated with the Higgs field is called the Higgs boson.

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[Judee]

For those that may want a bit more detail on what they think they're looking for....

The only question I would ask is, would this make our little 'human' lives better, or would it make it easier to control us? We're all here for a reason. We all have a choice to come to 'earth' or any other planet in the Universe in order to elevate our energy and move to a higher level. When there are those who are fooking around with the 'life particle', I have to wonder what the real reason is...