We're Still Here!

[InTheBeginning]

Well folks, today the Cern scientists (http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html) near Geneva were successful when they collided beams of protons at the highest energy levels ever seen.

No black holes, no time jumping. Just Boom!

Link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/03/100330_cern_nh_sl.shtml)

[notsolost42]

Generated 700 billion volts of electricity! I can't even write that many zeros!!!!! Now, that's quite a ZAP!!! So awesome!!!!!

[rachelskid]

speak for yourself. I am wearing a dharma jumpsuit and find myself in 1974. crap.

[chester]

speak for yourself. I am wearing a dharma jumpsuit and find myself in 1974. crap.

At least you've managed to send information forward in time...although I don't see how that will help :confused:

[notsolost42]

ROFLMAO!!!!
They showed some stupid CGI of a black hole being created by this and what would have happened to earth. OMG! It was hysterical. I don't even think it was close to how a black hole works from what I know!!! It was more like the parameter of the hole just kept getting larger rather than sucking everything into itself! hahahaha. 1974, eh? So, that wouldn't be so bad in S.F. to me! :D:D:D Meet you in the Haight.

[Here'sLOCKEing at you,Kid]

At least you've managed to send information forward in time...although I don't see how that will help :confused:

**leans in to screen**
What's that thing on your table, Ches? looks like it fell out of Claire's crib.
ewwww

[rachelskid]

At least you've managed to send information forward in time...although I don't see how that will help :confused:

i was holding my blackberry. i have no idea how RIM did it, but it came with me and its conveying information. now, can someone get help me get back. please. :confused:

[rachelskid]

ROFLMAO!!!!
They showed some stupid CGI of a black hole being created by this and what would have happened to earth. OMG! It was hysterical. I don't even think it was close to how a black hole works from what I know!!! It was more like the parameter of the hole just kept getting larger rather than sucking everything into itself! hahahaha. 1974, eh? So, that wouldn't be so bad in S.F. to me! :D:D:D Meet you in the Haight.

are you here too??

[stream]

quick to the wheel!!!!!

[chester]

i was holding my blackberry. i have no idea how RIM did it, but it came with me and its conveying information. now, can someone get help me get back. please. :confused:

You are all going to die in a purge, and theres nothing anyone can do to stop it. WHH :p

Unless maybe you join up with a man wearing black...

[rachelskid]

You are all going to die in a purge, and theres nothing anyone can do to stop it. WHH :p

Unless maybe you join up with a man wearing black...

actually, he is right here. lucky for me. :D:p

anyway, I also see ethan and ben. I may have a shot with them too. crap here comes kate. gotta run.

[JfromtheD]

now, can someone get help me get back. please. :confused:

Smokes were like a buck, back then.

Get me a carton, and I'll think about it.

[notsolost42]

are you here too??

In a mannor of speaking, I never left. :D
And I hear the music in the park....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_zYS2ZzF4

[rachelskid]

Smokes were like a buck, back then.

Get me a carton, and I'll think about it.

a awful lot of help you are. :rolleyes: the smokes are free here.
http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz170/rachelskid/3350650142_1af3b90ce7.jpg


but never you mind. Here comes LaFluer:D

[notsolost42]

sonofabitch :D

[rachelskid]

sonofabitch :D

thats what he said!

[chester]

**leans in to screen**
What's that thing on your table, Ches? looks like it fell out of Claire's crib.
ewwww

It's the birth of Smokey (on the fork). That's his mother there in the foreground.

[abcd1234]

watch out for the illuminati

[notsolost42]

thats what he said!

I'm tellin' ya. :p

[Czechmate]

speak for yourself. I am wearing a dharma jumpsuit and find myself in 1974. crap.

At least you've managed to send information forward in time...although I don't see how that will help :confused:

you know you're not supposed to use those computers to communicate with the outside world right?

[boutte]

i was holding my blackberry. i have no idea how RIM did it, but it came with me and its conveying information. now, can someone get help me get back. please. :confused:
Invest wisely.

[boutte]

Well folks, today the Cern scientists (http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html) near Geneva were successful when they collided beams of protons at the highest energy levels ever seen.

No black holes, no time jumping. Just Boom!

Link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/03/100330_cern_nh_sl.shtml)

Give me the short story. What did they learn from this?

[notsolost42]

Give me the short story. What did they learn from this?

It was part of an experiment to bash protons together and try to learn what happened after the big bang when the universe was created.

[boutte]

It was part of an experiment to bash protons together and try to learn what happened after the big bang when the universe was created.

Ambitious. Did it work?

[notsolost42]

Ambitious. Did it work?

Well, like the OP said, we're still here. They learned that they have much more to learn I think. But, physics wise, yes, they learned a great deal about matter and are trying to understand much more about what kind of particles it is made of.

[Unbridled Pageantry]

Doing stuff like this just sounds dangerous.
I'm all for science, but trying to re-create the big bang on a small scale just sounds all kinds of bad.

[notsolost42]

Doing stuff like this just sounds dangerous.
I'm all for science, but trying to re-create the big bang on a small scale just sounds all kinds of bad.

Why? You afraid of little black holes UP?

[myu]

Large Hadron Collider Finally Smashing Properly (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/31collider.html?ref=science)

Pretty amazing stuff... It'll be interesting to see what comes of it. It's extraordinary how much energy is required to operate it... the more finely they mash, the costlier it is.

[MagicoA]

Well folks, today the Cern scientists (http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html) near Geneva were successful when they collided beams of protons at the highest energy levels ever seen.

No black holes, no time jumping. Just Boom!

Link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/03/100330_cern_nh_sl.shtml)
what so am i the only one looking at the moon that has neil armstong on it? im freakin out

[notsolost42]

Large Hadron Collider Finally Smashing Properly (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/31collider.html?ref=science)

Pretty amazing stuff... It'll be interesting to see what comes of it. It's extraordinary how much energy is required to operate it... the more finely they mash, the costlier it is.

It created 700 billion volts of electricity! Holy cow!

[notsolost42]

I think I was mistaken, it was 700 TRILLION VOLTS!!!

I had to find the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQza3X12YzQ

Geeks Unite!!!! :D

[rachelskid]

interestingly enough, at sedar tonight, there was a guy who used to work on this project. he majored in physics and this was his internship about 5 years go. then he went to law school. none of us understood why. but it was a fun night.

[notsolost42]

That is so cool. What a brainiac!!!! OMG!!!! So, he was in Europe and not at CERN? Cool!!!!

[3d-aholic]

Give me the short story. What did they learn from this?

Nothing.
Except the same old thing...the more particles you look for...the more you find. I'm glad this had to be relocated to Europe for lack of funding from the US. Hopefully the US is finally turning the corner on wasting money.

{Sorry...not trying to offend...but I really do believe atom smashing as a science is a total waste of time.}