End of the world delayed til Friday

Eticket

Eticket

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For the science geeks out there...
(watch out Soj, lot's of reading and lot's of big words, just remember your phonetics and you'll do just fine)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7604293.stm

The first - clockwise - beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 BST. The second - anti-clockwise - beam successfully circled the ring after 1400 BST.


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<!-- E IBOX --> The beams have not yet been run continuously. So far, they have been stopped, or "dumped", after just a few circuits.
By Wednesday evening, engineers hope to inject clockwise and anti-clockwise protons again, but this time they will "close the orbit", letting the beams run continuously for a few seconds each.

Cern has not yet announced when it plans to carry out the first collisions, but the BBC understands that low-energy collisions could happen in the next few days. This will allow engineers to calibrate instruments, but will not produce data of scientific interest.
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Background:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1052309/MICHAEL-HANLON-Are-going-die-Wednesday.html



essentially... a number of scientists have stated there is a very small chance the universe may be torn apart by the LHC experiment

In case you're curious if the LHC has destroyed existence yet, here's a handy link to check

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

In the end, nothing will happen and we'll learn some cool shit, but if it doesn't get us... maybe one of these will

http://www.cracked.com/article_16583_5-scientific-experiments-most-likely-end-world.html
 
This is the only suitable reply I can think of. The doomsayers crack me up even more than this pic.

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haha. I'm actually excited about this. I didn't read about it until yesterday, but should be interesting.
 
I think I read this on BG. Good regurgitation of info though.

Oh, and eticket, if you're wondering about that big word i used, it means FUCK YOU
 
We've been chatting about this at work. My dept is split down the middle-- 3 of us who think this is cool and can't wait until the firing results on 21 Oct... and the "other" 3 who think either the earth will be ripped apart or "God" will intervene to stop the evils of man.

Makes for good debate--always fun.

I need to find the article about an interview... the interviewer asked if they needed a hardhat or safety equipment. The scientist was messing with the reporter and replied back that this machine could "rip the earth apart--the goggles will do nothing".

Heh.
 
HAH!
 
this youtube video was made by an MSU grad so im obligated to post it.

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my favorite quote about this project:

"Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat." -Prof Brian Cox, Manchester University.
 
Various versions of this have been making the rounds as well,
Mike, Hello, I am from approximately two months in the future. On 10/22 at approx 2:34am CET a tachyon field failure in the main resonating ring of the LHC causes a "temporal blowback". Shortly thereafter, the resulting destruction of the strong nuclear force causes the world to vaporize in seconds, while a few of us near the experiment are thrown into a temporal causality loop. While the predestination event (or as we have come to call it "The Big Rewind") hasn't occurred yet to you, for us it is about three years in our past. I came across your site looking to see if there were any other scientists that may have theorized this phenomenon who may be of assistance in preventing it. This brings me to my point, I have repeatedly checked your site for the past five rewinds at 2:34:01 CET and it still says nope, believe me at this point the LHC has most assuredly destroyed the world. I have rewinded in order to create a bank account in Nigeria into which funds can be placed that will allow us to rewind again and prevent this from happening. Please respond. John Titor CERN Specialist
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Indian girl commits suicide over 'Big Bang' fear - LHC - MSNBC.com

Updated 11:03 a.m. CT, Wed., Sept. 10, 2008

BHOPAL, India - A teenage girl in central India killed herself on Wednesday after being traumatized by media reports that a "Big Bang" experiment in Europe could bring about the end of the world, her father said.

The 16-year old girl from the state of Madhya Pradesh drank pesticide and was rushed to the hospital but later died, police said.Her father, identified on local television as Biharilal, said that his daughter, Chayya, killed herself after watching doomsday predictions made on Indian news programs."In the past two days, Chayya had asked me and other relatives about the world coming to an end on September 10," Biharilal was quoted as saying."We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail," he said.

For the past two days, many Indian news channels held discussions airing doomsday predictions over a huge particle-smashing machine buried under the Swiss-French border.
The machine, called the Large Hadron Collider, was switched on on Wednesday, at the start of what experts say is the largest scientific experiment in human history.
The machine smashes particles together to achieve, on a small-scale, re-enactments of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

Leading scientists and researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said the experiment was safe. They dismissed as "pure fiction" doomsday predictions that the experiment could create anti-matter, or black holes.

But in deeply religious and superstitious India, fears about the experiment and the minor risks associated with it spread rapidly through the media.In east India, thousands of people rushed to temples to pray and fast while others savored their favorite foods in anticipation of the world's end."There were a thousand more devotees yesterday as well as today compared to (any) other normal day," Benudhara Sahu, a temple official in Orissa state, told Reuters.

Many women and children rushed to temples and observed fasts as they prayed for deliverance, officials and witnesses said.Assurances by scientists and the media that nothing would happen counted for nothing for housewife Rukmini Moharana."I visited temple, prayed to god," Moharana said. "I am observing the fast for safety because god can only save us."
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That little girl is an hero?

(Soj woulda done it if I didn't, that's my defense)

-benny
 
lol

I just like the logical choice of escaping your fear of instant and painless vaporization by drinking pesticide
 
You are a cruel bastard Benner. I wasn't even thinking about doing that.
 
Eticket said:
lol

I just like the logical choice of escaping your fear of instant and painless vaporization by drinking pesticide
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Not to mention that if God was going to cast judgement on you. Think it would go better if you died by someone elses fault rather then you killing yourself.
 
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