jim_supra Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Had to laugh on the drive in to work this morning, The hadron experiment had completely slipped my mind, and whilst in the car I was reminded about it by a song, R.E.M. - It's the end of the world as we know it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 They're only powering up today though aren't they? No actual collisions planned yet. But, the date today is 10, 9, 8, sounds like a countdown to me!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 What would be really exciting is if they could find some evidence towards string theory.. I know, we still don't how long a piece is do we??!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burna Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 !gninrom siht ksed sessob ym no t!hs a nekat evah t'ndluow I dne ot gniog t'nsaw dlrow eht nwonk dah I fI .ereh lamron smees gnihtyrevE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Burna's just woke up then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Have they switch it on yet then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Have they switch it on yet then? Yep it was turned on at 08.30 BST Just powering the thing up for the moment though, it'll be a while before it does anything Gaz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Yep it was turned on at 08.30 BST Just powering the thing up for the moment though, it'll be a while before it does anything Gaz. It's already done something. Three decades after it was conceived, the world's most powerful physics experiment has sent the first beam around its 27km-long tunnel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifty Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I cant find my wallet - its made it disappear! Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamc Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Well, has it? http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Good read: http://cdsmedia.cern.ch/img/CERN-Brochure-2008-001-Eng.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 hahahaha the lights in my office all just turned off! I shat myself. there on a motion sensor that turns them off after 30 mins of nothing moving around. that's funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Well, has it? http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ View the page source on that one too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny g Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 at the geezer comments at the bottom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 What's with the tags on this thread? Large Hadron Rammer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamc Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ View the page source on that one too. nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Good read: http://cdsmedia.cern.ch/img/CERN-Brochure-2008-001-Eng.pdf Here's a shortened version: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2008/09/10/cern_G2_cover.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraFlynn Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 The page source also shows some javascript which attempts to figure out whether world has ended or not. If the "worldHasEnded" variable is set then it'll display "Yup." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 They have webcams in there now: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Ooooh, ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burna Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Very good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Oops, they broke it. "On Friday, a failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C. The fire brigade were called out after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel at Cern, near Geneva." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7626944.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Oops, they broke it. "On Friday, a failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C. The fire brigade were called out after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel at Cern, near Geneva." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7626944.stm Apparently, some new guy on the team, by the name of Rob, managed to over tighten something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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