CERN: LHC Produces First Physics Results

Space Daily ^ | Dec. 7, 2009 | Staff

[Duke C.]

After 20 years in the making, the first physics results have come out of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Physicists from the University of Birmingham played a key role in analyzing these collisions and producing the first results from the 27 km circular atom smasher near Geneva.

[Duke C.]

No black holes created yet...

[keithtoo]

Lemme guess.....a hockey stick graph????

[100%FEDUP]

Nearly every kernel popped!

[rfp1234]

The atom smasher would make one heck of an execution device, for convicted phony scientists and Gorean scamsters.

[null and void]

Did we all die?

[Fabozz]

Well, none that they saw, anyway.

[spodefly]

Every time I read something about groundbreaking science now, there is a part of my mind that asks “are they collecting data and theorizing, or are they looking for data sets to extrapolate into an already formulated UNscientific sociopolitical agenda?”

My cynicism probably isn’t warranted for physics research, but I’ll never hear another climatologist without wondering ...

[The Cajun]

Where's the Higgs boson, where's the Higgs boson???

[behzinlea]

Everywhere and nowhere.

[The Cajun]

Everywhere and nowhere.

Sounds kind of a 2 dimensional thing to me ;^)

[Lawdoc]

I had a Flashforward....

[irishtenor]

Yes, welcome to Heck.

[stormer]

[null and void]

Phil? Izzat you?

[irishtenor]

Not sure, insufficient light to tell.

:>)

[null and void]

Here's a insufficiently lighted mirror...

[dr_who]

I’m afraid my attitude is that unless something really fantastically wacky happens like the creation of a black hole that slowly engulfs the earth or something, chances are as an intelligent species we really aren’t any better off after running these experiments than we would be if we waited a couple hundred more years to run these experiments. In fact, possibly worse off because of all the money and electric power consumed that could have fed a lot of people or funded some technology that could really help humanity. To me, it’s more big science for an elite group of physicists to research a kind of micro-cosmology: something so impractically small and so high energy that it has essentially nothing to do with human experience. I guess a better case might be made for big astronomy because the expense of doing it is probably a great deal less, particularly in light of what has been learned.

[UCANSEE2]

Sounds kind of a 2 dimensional thing to me

Actually, God is one-dimensional. God is a point.

That is why scientists say the Universe originated from a single point.

[The Cajun]

Actually, God is one-dimensional. God is a point.
That is why scientists say the Universe originated from a single point.

Not wanting to get to religious on a physics thread, but it is my view that the Lord exists outside of all dimensions space/time and is not bound by any.

[UCANSEE2]

but it is my view that the Lord exists outside of all dimensions space/time and is not bound by any.

Taken from your view, you might have a point.