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Sep 15, 2008, 19:34 #76
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Sep 15, 2008, 19:38 #77
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Yeah, but not 600 million per second in a tiny spot on the earth. End of the world, here I come!
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Sep 16, 2008, 00:21 #78
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Sep 16, 2008, 03:34 #79
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The big bang sounds like a joke anyway if you ask me. It's something scientist came up with because they have no other explanation.
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Sep 16, 2008, 03:39 #80
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lol, some really interesting ideas on this thread.
I heard that the chance of the experiment causing a black hole is 150,000,000 to 1. Although there is soooo much made up crap being churned out all over the world about this I couldn’t say how reliable it is.
If it is reliable though, a fair bet on the end of the world would be "If the world ends, I will give you $150,000,000 and if it doesn’t you have to give me $1." lol
Steven Hawking said that these collisions happen all the time in the earth’s atmosphere, this experiment is just setting up the collision, so it can be observed.
Fascinating though that the result of this experiment should determine whether many quantum physics theories are correct.
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Sep 17, 2008, 04:12 #81
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Thats why the LHC was made to answer these questions, very exciting stuff. But what gets me is this, books that have been written before to answer these questions will either be wrong or correct. Many recent events in space have proven scientists wrong and had to do a rethink on how things work.
I hope the world does not end as I'm just about starting to make some money from one of my websites
Now they want to rename the LHC as they think it's probberly not the best name for it, so they are offering a £500 (about $1k) prize: link
What other name can you come up with?
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Sep 17, 2008, 04:46 #82
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The big bang sounds like a joke anyway if you ask me. It's something scientist came up with because they have no other explanation.
Firstly, galaxies are moving away from each other (shown by the Red Shift) - this hints towards there once being a center point. Take into account that large things should move towards each other and not apart, you need some MASSIVE forces to do that for 13.7 billion years
Secondly, the outer-space telescopes we have have immense capabilities. Remember that light has speed, it's not instant. We see the sun as it was 8 minutes ago, so if we look further we can see further back. They can see the effects of the big bang on some areas because they are so far away. Obviously we can't actually see the big bang because that would imply that we are traveling faster than the speed of light, but we can see back enough.Jake Arkinstall
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Sep 17, 2008, 08:47 #84
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Definately, scientists dont just make things up, that defies the whole point of science. Every theory has some kind of evidence behind it, a scientist will say "I think.... Because....(evidence suporting previous statement)" or "I dont know".
when you hear someone say something like
The big bang sounds like a joke anyway if you ask me. It's something scientist came up with because they have no other explanation.
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Or as Rudy would think of it
Code sql:SELECT Theory FROM Science WHERE ID NOT IN(SELECT DISTINCT ScienceID FROM Evidence)
(Excuse my terrible SQL)Jake Arkinstall
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your SQL is gorgeous
that particular query returns NULL
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See, SQL saves the day
Just found out that the competition ends today, drat and double drat
Maybe I'll consider making a new thread naming the LHC."Don't you just love it when you solve a programming bug only to create another."
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Too late - Halo.
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For those of you wanting up-to-the-minute status on the Large Hadron Collider, this site says it all:
hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com[mmj] My magic jigsaw
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Sep 19, 2008, 09:44 #93
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I think they should call it "endless?" hehe
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lol, yea something like "Infinity".
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Brilliant.
HTML Code:<html> <head> <style type="text/css"> { CCS styles here } </style> <title>Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?</title> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Recent Entries" href="http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/atom.xml" /> </head> <body> <div id="main"> <script type="text/javascript"> if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) { document.write("YUP."); } else { document.write("NOPE."); } </script> <noscript>NOPE.</noscript> </div> <!-- if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated please email mike@frantic.org to receive a full refund --> </body> </html>
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HAHA, thats a good one. that's first on my list if world ends.
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LHC has been halted for about two months due to a magnet failure.
A snipet from the bbc's website:
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.
Could this be the beginning of a black hole?
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The power involved is pretty amazing...
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