Huge Atom-Smasher Set to Start Up Wednesday

FOXNews.com ^ | 8 Sept 2008 | Fox News

[COBOL2Java]

It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.

Whatever the case, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday, eagerly anticipated by scientists worldwide who have awaited this moment for two decades.

[COBOL2Java]

March 22, 2007: Magnet core of the largest superconducting solenoid magnet at European Organization for Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider.

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Feb. 29: Last element, weighing 100 tons, of the ATLAS experiment is lowered into cave at the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

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March 22, 2007: Magnet core of the largest superconducting solenoid magnet at European Organization for Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider.

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Black holes can be such a drag.

[utherdoul]

well as long as I can play starcraft 2 before they destroy the universe ....

[Centurion2000]

I wonder if those magnets are strong enough to start affecting the iron atoms in hemoglobin if you were inside that one??

[Centurion2000]

I wonder if those magnets are strong enough to start affecting the iron atoms in hemoglobin if you were inside that one??

[cripplecreek]

[litehaus]

"I wonder if those magnets are strong enough to start affecting the iron atoms in hemoglobin if you were inside that one??"

.That's the reason I don't wear them magnetic bracelets ! Blood Clots.....LOL....

[relictele]

Erm, my watch just stopped.....

[refermech]

It’s more likely the thing won’t work and they’ll want another kazillion dollars to try to find out what went wrong. Sheesh

[Rennes Templar]

There are folks on the web who believe this thing is going to do permanent, serious harm to Europe.

[frithguild]

[VeniVidiVici]

Doomsday!

[green iguana]

Yeah I don’t know why I worry about the election when the Earth’s going to blow up tomorrow...

[avid]

I don’t have a good feeling about all this. Apparently this collisions very rarely occur in nature (100.000 times since earth exists). Somewhere I read it’s not even clear they occur at all. They don’t know what will happen after the collision - might be a small black hole or “freak matter”.

I’m thinking of “event horizon” and this other movie where only the people on earth survived such an experiment who died in the exact same moment it got switched on.

I know this sounds ignorant. Just a gut feeling. There are billions of black holes out there but apparently no other life...

[6SJ7]

Once the beam is successfully fired counterclockwise, a clockwise test will follow. Then the scientists will aim the beams at each other so that protons collide...

Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

[DustyMoment]

We would have been well past this point in scientific discovery had Bubba Clinton not cancelled the SuperConducting Super Collider in Texas after he got elected.

Bill the Rapist apparently did it for political reasons only because Queen Ann offered to buy the SCSC from the Feds and Texas would complete its construction and operate it, but Bill refused.

So, tell me again why leftists think Bill the rapist was a great president??

[B-Chan]

WOOOOOO FIRE IT UP D00DZ!!!

[Alter Kaker]

While the Europeans build the Large Hadron Collider, and the Chinese are industrializing at the fastest rate in world history, American schoolchildren are being taught that the world was created 6000 years ago.

America is quickly losing its technological and scientific edge and it's apparent to anyone why that is. American students can't even get into American graduate schools.

[steve8714]

Manbearpig?

[B-Chan]

this other movie where only the people on earth survived such an experiment who died in the exact same moment it got switched on

You're probably thinking of The Quiet Earth (1985).

[Busywhiskers]

The end is near. Darn...I was going fishing on Thursday.