5 Things You Need to Know About the Large Hadron Collider Now

Popular Mechancis ^ | September 10, 2008 | Erik Sofge

[nuconvert]

Largest particle collider conducts successful test
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_sc/big_bang

[Dumpster Baby]

I think I'll wait to see how this works out before wasting my time mowing the yard today.

;o)

[silverleaf]

Oh well, looks like I better go ahead and pay the mortgage this month

[P8riot]

I'm singin,

"We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.
Keep smiling through, just like you always do,
'Til the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away."

[InterceptPoint]

Will they find the Higgs? That is the question. I’m betting they won’t.

[Cvengr]

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.

[Cvengr]

It’s like washing the car and causing it to rain, if you cut the yard the day before the LHC fires, we’re doomed to suffer a black hole,.....now back to Obama,..Doh!

[Red Badger]

Safe? I'm not so sure.........

[eccentric]

Some much to do, so little time.

good

[IrishCatholic]

You know I am glad they killed the Super Collider here. Two billion dollars and a projected ten more? For what? It's not the fact the science is expensive, it's the fact that it is tax payer funded.
I don't remember where it says the taxpayer gets to pony up his paycheck for someone else's curiosity.

...and on a less serious note. What kind of superpowers would you get if you accidentally stepped in front of the beam when your clumsy lab assistant accidentally hit the on button? Hulk Powers? Spidy Powers?

OK, back to serious. I am not against gaining the knowledge they will obtain, but what are the applications? Is it too much to ask for to have some benefit from science that is publicly funded? This general ‘For the benefit of mankind’ crap doesn't fly.

Since this one is also internationally funded, I assume we chipped in for lunch at least. Yet unless that money leads to some tangible benefits to the taxpayer it is no different than money earmarked for the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska. No, wait, that isn't correct. The Bridge to Nowhere would have benefited the fifty people on the island. So this is less moral than that canceled bridge.

If we didn't chip in, well, then, whatever. Hope they have fun.

[Stevenc131]

How about some scientific rap on the subject (ok, I find the female doing the rapping kind of attractive, something about a smart girl in a lab coat).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

[Hones]

I would like someone with more a Physics background to explain to me, the wealth of knowledge that has been gained from the experiments at the existing particle accelerators. I don't see it.

[mad_as_he$$]

Your would receive a new orifice in your body that id probably highly radioactive and useless except for blood letting.

[yankeedame]

So much to do, so little time.

[umgud]

So, it was a smashing success?

[NewHampshireDuo]

I was listening the radio this AM and on the top of the hour news (from CBS I think) I could swear that the newsreader said “beam of PROTEINs.” LOL

[Colorado Doug]

Even if the world is going to end, it won't be on Wednesday

I've heard that the actual collision isn't scheduled until 2112. j/k

[IamConservative]

The LHC project has already yielded a “discovery” that you use everyday.

The world wide web, or, more specifically, hypertext. When the project first started, all the scientists were on what at the time was the Internet. One of the participants came up with the idea of hyperlinks in text as a means of creating the documentation for the project and as a means of collaborating.

[Teacher317]

I sent that link to several friends last week. It’s been a big hit within my little circles!