Large Hadron Collider @ CERN

[Robert HM]

Has it all gone horribly wrong?

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

Well, I laughed anyway .

Add this to it........................ T YET

[FROGMOUTH]

you can fire handhistories in it and it will give you the most profitable longterm solution, taking metagame into account

[kinboshi]

They've got the anti-clockwise beam to go all the way round now... and soon they'll do it in one go.  That means that the thing is up and running and it works!

In fact they only expected to get one beam all the way round today, so they're way ahead of schedule.

[ShatnerPants]

As ''The World will End Today'''s actually go, it's been pretty unexciting.

I haven't seen any devil's spawn, or even an imploding 'hoard of evil', or two would have been nice.

Although a cat did get run over earlier.

Has anyone spotted any decent signs of impending doom ?

You know, god appearing to the masses and talking about taking advantage of the autumn sales sharpish, or anything ?

[kinboshi]

Even if protons colliding could create a world-consuming black hole, that was never going to happen today as the protons aren't being collided for a number of weeks yet.

Apparently, when the first nuclear bombs were tested, some people were worried that the chain reaction in the bomb would continue into the atmosphere and ignite the whole planet.  No science behind why they thought that, but it just sounded like an interesting idea.  Much like this impending doom from man-made black holes scenario put forward by a retired bio-chemist.

[kinboshi]

Just found something on that:

In tracing the history of the hydrogen bomb, Dr. Teller in 1955 paid tribute to Professor Konopinski. He said scientists were concerned that a thermonuclear explosion might spread, but Dr. Konopinski's calculations proved that the reaction would not ignite the atmosphere and oceans and destroy the earth.

I bet it still didn't stop people worrying about it though.

[Dingdell]

I'm hoping that there is a translation issue going on here but these scientists can't be that bright if it's called European Organisation for Nuclear Research but the intials are CERN.

I'm guessing it's Central XX Research Nuclear?

Am I the only one to wonder about that??

[kinboshi]

Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (European Center for Particle Physics)

[WYSINWYG]

Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (European Center for Particle Physics)

So that means it got funding from most european countries I'm guessing, so that means me, and doing the maths that equals $9,200,000,000/24,000,000 x sqrt x/pi =15 quid.

So what do I get for my 15 quid? Will this actually improve my life? I've already had a bad nights sleep waiting for another Big Bang...

[bhoywonder]

Did the earth not move for u wysinwyg then?

[WYSINWYG]

Did the earth not move for u wysinwyg then?

Ok maybe there was a small whimper around 3 am ..

[boldie]

Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (European Center for Particle Physics)

So that means it got funding from most european countries I'm guessing, so that means me, and doing the maths that equals $9,200,000,000/24,000,000 x sqrt x/pi =15 quid.

So what do I get for my 15 quid? Will this actually improve my life? I've already had a bad nights sleep waiting for another Big Bang...

It gets you a certificate that says "I was there when history was made"

[WYSINWYG]

Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (European Center for Particle Physics)

So that means it got funding from most european countries I'm guessing, so that means me, and doing the maths that equals $9,200,000,000/24,000,000 x sqrt x/pi =15 quid.

So what do I get for my 15 quid? Will this actually improve my life? I've already had a bad nights sleep waiting for another Big Bang...

It gets you a certificate that says "I was there when history was made"

Awesome! I want a Tshirt too!

It's cool that there are people watching now that the events like the Big Bang are replicated, but won't people watching it change the outcome?

[kinboshi]

Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (European Center for Particle Physics)

So that means it got funding from most european countries I'm guessing, so that means me, and doing the maths that equals $9,200,000,000/24,000,000 x sqrt x/pi =15 quid.

So what do I get for my 15 quid? Will this actually improve my life? I've already had a bad nights sleep waiting for another Big Bang...

It gets you a certificate that says "I was there when history was made"

Awesome! I want a Tshirt too!

It's cool that there are people watching now that the events like the Big Bang are replicated, but won't people watching it change the outcome?

Tikay witnessed the first one...

[The-Crow]

Ok, I have done some research.

This is the fastest Proton so far,but underground it can approach the speed of light,    I doubt it