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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/0007/nov/20/cern?picture=330365576Some amazing photos and brief overview of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and what it hopes to achieve. The sheer scale of this thing is amazing.   There was a documentary on the BBC a week or so ago about it, and I missed it. Hopefully it's on the iPlayer.
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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2008, 03:26:27 PM » |
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CERN is amazing..those guys are shit hot.
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« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2008, 03:27:44 PM » |
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Without CERN this forum may not have existed.
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« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2008, 03:28:49 PM » |
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Without CERN this forum may not have existed.
Absolutely. I'm not sure that's one of it's crowning glories though. |
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« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2008, 03:29:43 PM » |
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A hardon collinder?!  |
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« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2008, 03:35:21 PM » |
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just the tunnel itself is pretty amazing, the channel tunnel's pretty cool but anyone can dig in a straight line. a 27 km perfect circle's awesome
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« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2008, 03:35:33 PM » |
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Without CERN this forum may not have existed.
Absolutely. I'm not sure that's one of it's crowning glories though. This LHC malarky is BY FAR the coolest thing I know they have done/ are doing though. When this was first reported as being worked on a while ago it blew me away. |
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« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2008, 03:41:58 PM » |
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just the tunnel itself is pretty amazing, the channel tunnel's pretty cool but anyone can dig in a straight line. a 27 km perfect circle's awesome
The tolerances are within millimetres as well. Incredible. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_ColliderCooling thousands of tonnes of the machine to within two degrees of absolute zero is a massive feat on its own. |
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« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2008, 03:44:17 PM » |
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FYP Going to read it now. Looks interesting  |
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« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2008, 03:44:41 PM » |
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just the tunnel itself is pretty amazing, the channel tunnel's pretty cool but anyone can dig in a straight line. a 27 km perfect circle's awesome
The tolerances are within millimetres as well. Incredible. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_ColliderCooling thousands of tonnes of the machine to within two degrees of absolute zero is a massive feat on its own. Maybe they just get the Machine to tell MrsB she can't watch Lost... |
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« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2008, 03:45:23 PM » |
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FYP Going to read it now. Looks interesting lol, or just half the size. |
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« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2008, 03:47:32 PM » |
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just the tunnel itself is pretty amazing, the channel tunnel's pretty cool but anyone can dig in a straight line. a 27 km perfect circle's awesome
The tolerances are within millimetres as well. Incredible. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_ColliderCooling thousands of tonnes of the machine to within two degrees of absolute zero is a massive feat on its own. Maybe they just get the Machine to tell MrsB she can't watch Lost... Alternatively, they could have just built it in Aberdeen. |
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« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2008, 03:49:18 PM » |
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just the tunnel itself is pretty amazing, the channel tunnel's pretty cool but anyone can dig in a straight line. a 27 km perfect circle's awesome
The tolerances are within millimetres as well. Incredible. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_ColliderCooling thousands of tonnes of the machine to within two degrees of absolute zero is a massive feat on its own. Maybe they just get the Machine to tell MrsB she can't watch Lost... Alternatively, they could have just built it in Aberdeen. true...not much for common sense them CERN boys, are they? |
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« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2008, 03:51:02 PM » |
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just the tunnel itself is pretty amazing, the channel tunnel's pretty cool but anyone can dig in a straight line. a 27 km perfect circle's awesome
The tolerances are within millimetres as well. Incredible. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_ColliderCooling thousands of tonnes of the machine to within two degrees of absolute zero is a massive feat on its own. Maybe they just get the Machine to tell MrsB she can't watch Lost... Alternatively, they could have just built it in Aberdeen. true...not much for common sense them CERN boys, are they? Foreigners. |
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« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2008, 03:55:42 PM » |
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just the tunnel itself is pretty amazing, the channel tunnel's pretty cool but anyone can dig in a straight line. a 27 km perfect circle's awesome
The tolerances are within millimetres as well. Incredible. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_ColliderCooling thousands of tonnes of the machine to within two degrees of absolute zero is a massive feat on its own. Maybe they just get the Machine to tell MrsB she can't watch Lost... Alternatively, they could have just built it in Aberdeen. true...not much for common sense them CERN boys, are they? Foreigners. yeah...loads smarter than us British and MUCH better looking than us British..but no common sense. |
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