Worries about world's largest particle accelerator

Thats all a little bit to far away for me. I wonder what a 4th room dimension would be, or how ut could be explained. - But there I am thinking of this Simpsons-episode when Homer enters the third dimension and Dr. Frank explains that the simple 2-dimensional square also could be extended to the back with more lines - and what comes out is what he called Frankahydron or "cube"

Maybe it would be easy like that - but I doubt that.
 
so do we all die today? do i have to say i love you to my girlfriend and then go loot some shit that ive always wanted to have or should i sit down and do my French homework?

 
dude no one said the world was going to end, there is a slim to none chance it will anyway and they arent even going to start colliding the protons until next year. they are still warming the machine up and calibrating it, then they are going to spin the protons one way for a month or two and then the other way for a month or two
 
I agree

When I read almost.steezy's post I admit I was siding with him that this money should've gone to helping world hunger or medical research. Just as well no one can really say for sure what will come out of the particle accerator, whether we discover a key property of matter or if we aren't much better off than before. However, in the name of the possible discovery, the use of so much money is justified.

One the other hand, money is overused in so many worthless causes like funding wars and paying for unneeded material stuff (the American dream). If this money was put towards humantarian causes then maybe this world would be a better place, one where we can discover new things through rightously funded science and where we can live in peace with each other
 
So i talked to my ap physics teacher today and he said even if a black hole where to be created it would be so small that it wouldn't be able to attract anything, so it would dissapate(sp).
 
so did mine. He also told us that Stephan Hawking said there was no chance this experiment could directly harm humans.
 
im not worried about it. one of my dumbass friends is though, all she says "im gonna die omg omg omg NOOO!!!"
its like

shut the fuck up and live your life
 
for all the people who are worried, don't you believe that the mayans are right also? if so, you got nothing to worry about you bunch of fucking retarded pussies.
 
thats true
there would only be 6.5 billion people that would get to die like that in the history of our world
 
Next runs through the LHC won't be done until Oct 21, and they may not even do collisions then. We won't see collisions for at least a month or two months.
 
i say fire it up and see what happens.

everybody's gotta go sometime right? plus, if it works, we'll have a better way to explain life, the universe and everything. i mean don't get me wrong, the number 42 is great... but if they can use this machine to figure out what they say they can figure out, that would solve alot of problems.
 
my brother said that within the next 4 years they'll be using it and theres a 1 PERCENT CHANCE of it creating a black hole

1 PERCENT?

thats not .01 PERCENT!!!!!!!!!

I HATE THIS THING
 
But why do we need to know this? Why can't we just be happy just living and not plus the whole fucking world at risk for some obscure particle, and might not even show up. Yes they say there are no risks, but there are ALWAYS risks.

And what happens if that risk turns out to be true, and the world gets fucked because some SMALL group of researchers want to play god with particles. I know we all have to go sometime, but before i die i was hoping toget marryed, have some kids, get a good job.....you know live.

Fuck cern, fuck this expeariment.
 
erns data collection computers are a fucking achievement to modern humanity. They process the info collected from a few milliseconds of collision with 60,000 computers:

"Sophisticated filters

discard all but the most interesting data, but that still leaves 15

petabytes to be analyzed each year - enough to fill 2 million DVDs. So

it will get sent via high-speed lines to 11 top research institutions

in Europe, North America and Asia, and from there to a wider network of

150 facilities where the information can be scrutinized by thousands of

researchers - who could share in the glory of any discovery."
 
i think that they might be able to accellerate the particles into the future thus for creating time travel.
 
the only poible way i see something like that happening would be if the particles broke the speed of light.(which probably won't happen). but even then that wouldn't be time travel, all that would happen is the particle would seem to be in one place, but actually be in another.
 
A really good book on this kind of stuff is "hyperspace" by Michio Kaku if anyone is interested...

The guy built a particle accelerator when he was in high school.
 
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