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Huge Atom-Smasher Set to Start Up Wednesday
FOXNews.com ^ | 8 Sept 2008 | Fox News

Posted on 09/08/2008 12:36:59 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: cern; endoftheworld; hadroncollider; science; timemachine
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To: COBOL2Java

Looks to me like a preproduction version of the flux capacitor.


41 posted on 09/08/2008 2:01:53 PM PDT by starlifter
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To: jwparkerjr
Gosh I hate to be such a skeptic, but my nearly 70 years, 18 of them with Clinton in world, has done that to me.

LOL!...I know what you mean; and Obamalamadingdong is the icing on the cake. Well, IMHO, the whole thing is going to result in the detection of smaller particles, necessitating mathematical explanations that will be used to justify the construction of even larger machines...PerCon's first law of particle physics...

Subatomic detectives are on the trail of the theoretical Higgs Boson, known as the "God Particle" in some circles. If you are interested, I refer you to this. If not, just think of it as a full employment program for Fermilab, CERN, etc...
42 posted on 09/08/2008 2:07:07 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.-- Mencken)
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To: Centurion2000
I'd be more worried about the paramagnetic stuff in my body...if it affects frogs it could affect you...
43 posted on 09/08/2008 2:13:32 PM PDT by no-s
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To: COBOL2Java
then the scientists will aim the beams at each other

Sounds like the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral
44 posted on 09/08/2008 2:48:11 PM PDT by ChessExpert (This enemy is more dangerous than any threat we faced in the 20th century, LTG Sanchez)
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To: COBOL2Java
Heh. As explained to me by some good UK friends.....CERN is ready to reveal the "God Particle" and unify the Theory of Everything.

Far out. Frankly, I thing this big atom smasher is quite cool, but for some reason, I'm not to worried about a black hole appearing........;) I think the "God Particle" might still be a little beyond our reach...;)

45 posted on 09/08/2008 2:54:42 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: frithguild

Oh yeah, the supercolliding cornucopia!


46 posted on 09/08/2008 2:55:07 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: COBOL2Java
Black holes can be such a drag.

If memory serves this old dude correctly I have to agree.

47 posted on 09/08/2008 3:00:25 PM PDT by dearolddad (Like $4.00 + gas? Be sure to thank a democrap.)
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To: jwparkerjr

I wonder by what criteria they will decide if it works or not?


It starts making a giant sucking sound? ;o)

48 posted on 09/08/2008 3:17:02 PM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: steve8714; Alter Kaker
Don't worry about the children being corrupted. None of them read well enough now to handle the Bible, or Darwin. And as far as 6,000 years goes, they haven't got the number concepts to handle that, either.

Condom use, Driver's Ed, and Global Warming are the foundation of the Public School curriculum,in that order. Gotta go, late for my Hygienic Piercing 101 at the Community College night school for seniors.

I will be offering a discount to all freepers.

49 posted on 09/08/2008 4:30:17 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (GOP Plank: Pump MORE US Crude--2Xrefining capacity -- Coal /METHANOL fuel-- Build Nukes)
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To: COBOL2Java

“Hit send right now.”

— Al Yankovic


50 posted on 09/08/2008 5:34:13 PM PDT by Graymatter
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To: 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.

Yes, the cancellation of that project was disasterous. Note well that this was done when there was a democratic Congress and democratic president.

51 posted on 09/08/2008 9:08:25 PM PDT by ishmac
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