LHC Large Hadron Collider

[swaney]

is this the end.. they are gonna test it mid october.. this is crazy

[TheChampJT]

I sure am a bit worried with this crap! I slowly see the entire world going downhill with everything happening. Then along comes a virtual black hole, these scientist are complete morons, and this machine needs to be destroyed! I don't see any point, or any good to come of it.

[fzzyrn]

I think we should just go ahead and do it.

We either discover something, discover nothing, or get sucked into a black hole and we don't have to worry about life.

Its really, truly a win-win-doesn't matter situation. And I'm NOT being sarcastic. this is how i really feel.

The worst that it can do is destroy the planet, and then we won't have to worry about poverty, global warming, anything!

[TheChampJT]

I think we should just go ahead and do it.

We either discover something, discover nothing, or get sucked into a black hole and we don't have to worry about life.

Its really, truly a win-win-doesn't matter situation. And I'm NOT being sarcastic. this is how i really feel.

The worst that it can do is destroy the planet, and then we won't have to worry about poverty, global warming, anything!

And you don't care about all the other things in life?

[swaney]

I think we should just go ahead and do it.

We either discover something, discover nothing, or get sucked into a black hole and we don't have to worry about life.

Its really, truly a win-win-doesn't matter situation. And I'm NOT being sarcastic. this is how i really feel.

The worst that it can do is destroy the planet, and then we won't have to worry about poverty, global warming, anything!
are u crazy i love my life ai bet thechampjt feels the same way.. all because u dnt like it.. alot of other ppl disagree. this might be the revelation.. so i would jus keep my gaurd up

[Rudegar]

look into what it really do and what the REAL risks are

fear of the unknown the man's oldes fear and in most cases is just that

[swaney]

but u can not tell me u do not think about it and freak out.. because they are gonna make micro black holes.. and u kno wat black holes do.. they get bigger

[mrvanx]

LOL please people I figured xda-devs had a bit more intelligence than this??

Fact of the matter is there are more energetic collisions on a DAILY basis in our own atmosphere and has the Earth been destroyed? no.

People read up on what the LHC actually does before backing up hearsay about black holes etc...

And also look up Hawking Radiation you be surprised what the result would be even if a microscopic black hole was created ;)

[Mikulec]

Sorry Guys, but someone discovered that it will open a portal like in Half Life.
Check the pics, there is Dr. Freeman adn G-Man.

http://img3.sector.sk/files/novinky/2008-9-10-22-24-77/pict-591.jpg

[mrvanx]

Sorry Guys, but someone discovered that it will open a portal like in Half Life.
Check the pics, there is Dr. Freeman adn G-Man.

http://img3.sector.sk/files/novinky/2008-9-10-22-24-77/pict-591.jpg

lol omg, freeman!!!! I KNEW it!!! :D

[Mikulec]

lol omg, freeman!!!! I KNEW it!!! :D

Yes it is true, prepare for the coming headcrabs.

[TheChampJT]

LOL :D! The Portal pic was hilarious! I guess i personally put too much thought in it, but as far as the daily occurences that compare, are affects from the sun. The biggest thing that makes me wonder, is what is the purpose, does anyone know?

[N1c0_ds]

As mentioned ealier, either we all die (unlikely) or science makes a huge step forward. I live without believing it will happen. If it does, no one will be there to cry, so I don't really fear anything.:p

[blackdogs377]

LOL :D! The Portal pic was hilarious! I guess i personally put too much thought in it, but as far as the daily occurences that compare, are affects from the sun. The biggest thing that makes me wonder, is what is the purpose, does anyone know?

to find the god particle, called the higgs boson.

to put it in perspective, imagine a big explosion. All the matter gets shot outwards. but according to the "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" theory, there must be the same amount of energy going inwards too. They're trying to find where that energy is going and what it is basically.

just google it lol

[TheChampJT]

to find the god particle, called the higgs boson.

to put it in perspective, imagine a big explosion. All the matter gets shot outwards. but according to the "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" theory, there must be the same amount of energy going inwards too. They're trying to find where that energy is going and what it is basically.

just google it lol

Ahhhhhhh you :D! I thought you knew what you were talking about, until I saw the Google comment.

[surur]

They are doing fundamental research into why the universe is as it is today, so that they can have a good understanding of how it works. With this understanding they should be able to do things which seems unimaginable now.

To bring it home to a practical example relevant to XDA - before TouchFlo3D was understood we could only change the pictures and modify the skins, which was nice, but once TouchFLo3D was fully understood we could make out own tabs which is obviously much more useful.

Imagine now we can generate electricity using nuclear fission, but with a full understanding of particle physics was can stick a Mr Fusion in our cars :)

Surur

[blackdogs377]

Ahhhhhhh you :D! I thought you knew what you were talking about, until I saw the Google comment.

well what i wrote there is what i know about it. I said google it just incase you wanted to know more.

[Rudegar]

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
this one is pretty good too :)

[mrvanx]

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
this one is pretty good too :)

Lol, love it. :D

[rorydaredkign]

LOL please people I figured xda-devs had a bit more intelligence than this??

Fact of the matter is there are more energetic collisions on a DAILY basis in our own atmosphere and has the Earth been destroyed? no.

People read up on what the LHC actually does before backing up hearsay about black holes etc...

And also look up Hawking Radiation you be surprised what the result would be even if a microscopic black hole was created ;)

Probably read about it in The Sun (no pun intended, its a UK tabliod) which has the front page headline of something like will the world end today, when in fact nothing will even happen until october.
And very good thought about hawking radiation, I didn't know that, but just sort of accepted that micro black holes just disappeared (silly me to just accept something)
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
this one is pretty good too :)
excellent
:)
Rory

[DaveShaw]

Fact of the matter is there are more energetic collisions on a DAILY basis in our own atmosphere and has the Earth been destroyed? no.


I Laughed my Ass off when Stephan Hawkins said that the BBC's (the BBC FFS, not a daily tabloid - actually, don't get me started on the BBC, I'll pass Rudegar's post cound in an hour.) reporter when asked "Will it destry the world?".

EDIT:
And this is what the new definition of Stupid should be: http://weblogs.hollanddoc.nl/higgs/2008/04/17/lawsuit-lhc-is-a-threat-to-entire-planet/

EDIT2:
@fzzyrn, I thought the exact same thing, whose gonna complain when the world disappears. Your dead, everyone else is dead, who's left to care / mourn? ;)

Dave

[TheChampJT]

Tell me how you all feel about this machine after being hacked.

From Engadget RSS feed:

Hackers hit LHC computer system, deemed "scary experience"
by Donald Melanson, posted Sep 12th 2008 at 4:43PM

Those already fearful of the Large Hadron Collider's potential Earth-ending capabilities may want to turn away for this one, as it looks like the situation has managed to get a bit more perilous, with a team of hackers apparently successful in mounting an attack on a system that is "one step away" from the computer system that controls of one of the LHC's massive detectors. According to The Telegraph newspaper, the group, calling itself the "Greek Security Team," left behind a half a dozen files on the system and damaged one CERN file, in addition to displaying the page above on the cmsmon.cern.ch website, which still remained inaccessible as of Friday. Somewhat disconcertingly, one of the scientists working at CERN simply described the incident as a "scary experience," with a CERN spokesperson further adding that they thought it was just someone "making the point that [the system] was hackable." Um, okaaaay.

[DaveShaw]

Tell me how you all feel about this machine after being hacked.

From Engadget RSS feed:

Hackers hit LHC computer system, deemed "scary experience"
by Donald Melanson, posted Sep 12th 2008 at 4:43PM

Those already fearful of the Large Hadron Collider's potential Earth-ending capabilities may want to turn away for this one, as it looks like the situation has managed to get a bit more perilous, with a team of hackers apparently successful in mounting an attack on a system that is "one step away" from the computer system that controls of one of the LHC's massive detectors. According to The Telegraph newspaper, the group, calling itself the "Greek Security Team," left behind a half a dozen files on the system and damaged one CERN file, in addition to displaying the page above on the cmsmon.cern.ch website, which still remained inaccessible as of Friday. Somewhat disconcertingly, one of the scientists working at CERN simply described the incident as a "scary experience," with a CERN spokesperson further adding that they thought it was just someone "making the point that [the system] was hackable." Um, okaaaay.

Why not?

Don't you know all LHC's have internet facing control panels. :D

Dave

[rorydaredkign]

one step away from the detactors
so surely they tried to get to them and failed
plus, the detectors do exactly that, detect, they dont control it