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Large Hadron Collider

The following pictures are hi-res photos of the almost complete Large Hadron Collider. ( Please note, these are hi-res and will take a few moments to load, be patient, they are extremely worth the wait. I'm sure LoAmi is already all over this site and could explain to you the physics of it all in detail if you ask him. If you have dial-up, you may want to avoid this first link).

 

Large Hadron Collider Photos

 

The Large Hadron Collider or LHC is estimated to have cost well over $5 billion dollars and will be run by a team of physicists from 85 countries. It is considered to be the greatest scientific experiment in the history of particle physics. For more information concerning the LHC visit the following links:

 

Large Hadron Collider Wikipedia

 

CERN Public Welcome Site

 

The Large Hardon Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of 7 TeV protons. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Later in the article you find this......

 

"Concerns have been raised regarding the safety of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the grounds that high-energy particle collisions performed in the LHC might produce dangerous phenomena, including micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles."

<Ha....we'll have a Rihannsu AQS before a Warp Drive>

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Planet not destroyed as fearmongers claimed...lol

 

Aw, frack! Now I have to do my French homework!

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Start up acheived! Initial test a success!! Planet not destroyed as fearmongers claimed...lol

 

Large Hadron Collider Start up a success!

 

Aw, frack! Now I have to do my French homework!

 

Oh yeah, I was totally all nervous and stuff. Really, if the planet were to be torn apart as a result of some test .... I really don't think we'd realize it due to the moment of instantaneous POOF! :-P

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Wait a minute, don't you guys remember when the world exploded and the scientists saved humanity by building a huge rocketship and taking us all to this new world here? Sure, that was a big deal! And they decided not to tell all the stupid people, because it would cause a panic and.... Ohhhhhhh.

 

(apologies to Steve Martin for stealing that joke, but it just fit so well)

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Who knows if they will manage to find what they're looking for, but maybe they'll come up with something as a side-product of all the effort. After all, it was CERN and Sir Tim Berners-Lee that got the World Wide Web going as a means to disseminate scientific research and information, and where would we at STSF be without that lovely WWW? Go Science!

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Personally, I'm mad at all this. I live on the north edge of the now defunct Superconducting Super Collider that was suppose to be the center of all this attention several years ago. Going into any more details than that just makes me even more mad at stupid.... I'll stop now.

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This is my favourite piece of LHC-related media. :rolleyes:

 

 

Reminds me of those music videos at the end of episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy.

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