Large Hadron Collider...about to decimate- the universe.

[galaxy xr8]

Very impressive, does anybody know what sort of budget was used to engineer something as big as this, I would be thinking in the Billion's, would be interesting to know what sort cost something as big as this has made.

[StAndArdAU]

i read the number 18 billion was the budget but they have/are still going over... that was off a blog though so could be false.

[steamin63]

Originally Posted by 70caprigt3k

I've got my crowbar ready just in case something goes wrong, anyone got a spare HEV suit?

don't need it . i got me a flat top, dark glasses and a sh!tload of chewing gum.

[Lukeyson]

Originally Posted by StAndArdAU

that was off a blog though so could be false.

It was on the interwebs, it must be true



On topic though, that big thing is scary looking, the Borg will find us when they turn it on !

[Sourbastard]

Show of hands... Who here saw the thread title and read Hardon Collider?

[Lukeyson]

+1 ^^^^^^^^

[rodderz]

The CERN website with info-
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

and in google map
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&h...27895&t=h&z=16

[troppo]

Originally Posted by rodderz

Reminds me of the anti-matter facility in Geneva that the start of Dan Brown's "Angels and Demon's" was based on

I dunno which came first, the book or the announcement from CERN that they had created anti-matter, but I only read the book recently so it was the opposite for me. Reading the book reminded me CERN had already made anti-matter so it all fitted quite well into the plot even though it's possible it was fiction (or speculation) at the time it was written.

The most interesting speculation about this project is the possible confirmation of the theorised Higgs boson, a particle thought to be responsible for mass. Imagine the implications of being able to 'genetically modify' an atom to create a substance that has no mass. Or the opposite, create artificial mass that takes up no space (essentially a stable, man-made micro black hole), maybe even artificiialy create enough mass to warp time and space and make time travel plausible. The mind truly boggles...

As for budget, it would be huge. It's a global collaboration and whatever the projected budget was, they would be well over after having some of the earlier super conducting magnets fail quality targets and being redisigned. I also shudder to think of the electric bill to run this thing with 27km of track being cooled to almost 0K (-273 C) and needing a few weeks to get down to operating temperature in stages.

[Bossxr8]

Pfffft. MacGeyver could build one of those with a piece of string, a coat hanger and some chewing gum.

[Sourbastard]

Originally Posted by troppo

Imagine the implications of being able to 'genetically modify' an atom to create a substance that has no mass.

finally something to make the modular motor lighter.

[Bossxr8]

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g59/Bossxr8/Vtec.jpg

VTEC JUST KICKED IN YO.

[HLC]

i hope something happens. it'll be such an anti climax if we arent all sucked into our death or something?

[FlipXW]

Originally Posted by sourbastard

Show of hands... Who here saw the thread title and read Hardon Collider?

Guilty

[DoreSlamR]

The LHC explained....In rap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3iry...w-in-rap-form/

[TadKa]

All that technology and money and they have a CRT monitor.

[asusdragon]

i have heard bout this years ago and well it does sound very good. what this is, is pretty much another sun i think (that is if i am thinking of the same thing) a few of these round the world will produce huge amounts of power too and it doesnt have any harmfull byproducts either

[XR6-VCT-2000]

I gotta say i'm pretty excited about it, they are supposed to be putting it into full operation some time this month / within the next few weeks. All I can say is "Look out past,present and future, here we come ! "..hehehe :

[troppo]

Originally Posted by asusdragon

i have heard bout this years ago and well it does sound very good. what this is, is pretty much another sun i think (that is if i am thinking of the same thing) a few of these round the world will produce huge amounts of power too and it doesnt have any harmfull byproducts either

That actually sounds like the Z machine built by Sandia labs. It's a nuclear fusion reactor which fuses heavy hydrogen to create helium as a by-product. There's not much heavy hyrogen here on the planet but the moon is literally covered with the stuff.
Z machine

[ayeyew]

I went to a seminar on the LHC.

I have a degree in Physics and i still found some of the concepts they were talking about mind boggling!

The LHC was meant to be up and running in 2007.

Hopefully within the next year or two, they will discover the 17th particle with the monstrosity! The elusive Higgs Boson! YAYYYYYYYYYYY

[asusdragon]

you could be right thouhg i remeber have a long round tunnel on two countries so that why i was thinking it was the LHC

though that Z Machine looks cool.

[flappist]

But you do all understand that if the universe is destroyed next year then there will never be a V6 falcon, so it's probably not all bad.....

[GasoLane]

Somebody please tell me that Bill Gates did not have a hand in building that thing!

[RegSpec]

Particles...Shmarticles..... :
The only particles Im interested in accelerating are the ones that make up my car..... :

[jornsmith]

if it don't work they can always turn it into an oversized rollercoaster that goes the speed of light! :

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by GasOLane

Somebody please tell me that Bill Gates did not have a hand in building that thing!

For the sake of us all, I really hope not!

[Rastus]

Originally Posted by asusdragon

i have heard bout this years ago and well it does sound very good. what this is, is pretty much another sun i think (that is if i am thinking of the same thing) a few of these round the world will produce huge amounts of power too and it doesnt have any harmfull byproducts either

I watched Spiderman 2 as well. Things can only end badly! _2:
Evil Scientists with giant robotic arms! Arrghhhh.