Get Ready. End of the World on Wednesday.
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Get Ready. End of the World on Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/08/l...der/index.html
By Elizabeth Landau
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(CNN) -- Deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, the world's largest particle accelerator complex will explore the world on smaller scales than any human invention has explored before.
The collider's ALICE experiment will look at how the universe formed by analyzing particle collisions.
The Large Hadron Collider will look at how the universe formed by analyzing particle collisions. Some have expressed fears that the project could lead to the Earth's demise -- something scientists say will not happen. Still, skeptics have filed suit to try to stop the project.
It even has a rap dedicated to it on YouTube.
Scientists say the collider is finally ready for an attempt to circulate a beam of protons the whole way around the 17-mile tunnel. The test, which takes place Wednesday, is a major step toward seeing if the the immense experiment will provide new information about the way the universe works.
"It's really a generation that we've been looking forward to this moment, and the moments that will come after it in particular," said Bob Cousins, deputy to the scientific leader of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, one of six experiments inside the collider complex. "September 10 is a demarcation between finishing the construction and starting to turn it on, but the excitement will only continue to grow."
The collider consists of a particle accelerator buried more than 300 feet near Geneva, Switzerland. About $10 billion have gone into the accelerator's construction, the particle detectors and the computers, said Katie Yurkewicz, spokewoman for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which is host to the collider.
In the coming months, the collider is expected to begin smashing particles into each other by sending two beams of protons around the tunnel in opposite directions. It will operate at higher energies and intensities in the next year, and the experiments could generate enough data to make a discovery by 2009, experts say. Check out the collider complex's six detectors
By Elizabeth Landau
CNN
(CNN) -- Deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, the world's largest particle accelerator complex will explore the world on smaller scales than any human invention has explored before.
The collider's ALICE experiment will look at how the universe formed by analyzing particle collisions.
The Large Hadron Collider will look at how the universe formed by analyzing particle collisions. Some have expressed fears that the project could lead to the Earth's demise -- something scientists say will not happen. Still, skeptics have filed suit to try to stop the project.
It even has a rap dedicated to it on YouTube.
Scientists say the collider is finally ready for an attempt to circulate a beam of protons the whole way around the 17-mile tunnel. The test, which takes place Wednesday, is a major step toward seeing if the the immense experiment will provide new information about the way the universe works.
"It's really a generation that we've been looking forward to this moment, and the moments that will come after it in particular," said Bob Cousins, deputy to the scientific leader of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, one of six experiments inside the collider complex. "September 10 is a demarcation between finishing the construction and starting to turn it on, but the excitement will only continue to grow."
The collider consists of a particle accelerator buried more than 300 feet near Geneva, Switzerland. About $10 billion have gone into the accelerator's construction, the particle detectors and the computers, said Katie Yurkewicz, spokewoman for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which is host to the collider.
In the coming months, the collider is expected to begin smashing particles into each other by sending two beams of protons around the tunnel in opposite directions. It will operate at higher energies and intensities in the next year, and the experiments could generate enough data to make a discovery by 2009, experts say. Check out the collider complex's six detectors
But in all honesty, I think it will just create more questions and more research.
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We have to stop funding all this hokus-pokus science stuff! Have those dumb scientists ever done anything good for us?? They just take our money and now look they are probably going to end the universe!! Well guys, we had a good run.. cya in the afterlife!
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Btw, for anyone concerned.. millions of particle collisions happen naturally everyday in our atmosphere, the LHC is simply letting us observe the ones we have the most questions about, in a scientific setting. I can't wait to see what answers (and new questions) we get out of her!
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Btw, for anyone concerned.. millions of particle collisions happen naturally everyday in our atmosphere, the LHC is simply letting us observe the ones we have the most questions about, in a scientific setting. I can't wait to see what answers (and new questions) we get out of her!
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Originally Posted by Brownsound,Sep 8 2008, 01:30 PM
We have to stop funding all this hokus-pokus science stuff! Have those dumb scientists ever done anything good for us?? They just take our money and now look they are probably going to end the universe!! Well guys, we had a good run.. cya in the afterlife!
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with Brownsound to some extent. I do believe we fund some of the most asinine and pointless projects for research in the name of science sometimes. However, the medical field and government have the same fault. 
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Originally Posted by SinsinS2000,Sep 8 2008, 01:42 PM
with Brownsound to some extent. I do believe we fund some of the most asinine and pointless projects for research in the name of science sometimes. However, the medical field and government have the same fault. 
I think he was being facetious.
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Facetious or not, some studies that get funded make me wonder just what the hell some people are thinking out there.
And don't take him seriously Dad, I don't think he was applying his jest towards you. Perhaps towards the nitwits that you work for
, but most assuredly not our favorite and beloved mad scientist! 
And don't take him seriously Dad, I don't think he was applying his jest towards you. Perhaps towards the nitwits that you work for
, but most assuredly not our favorite and beloved mad scientist!
