Large Hadron Collider... Up and running, again!

Lucien wrote:

BaronZemo wrote:

Lucien wrote:

BaronZemo wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:To be fair every civilisation crumbles eventually. The civilisation we are in right now may be a long running one but it will end at some point when either nature gives us all a good pasting or we blow ourselves back into the stone age over dwindling resources. I bet the Romans thought they were pretty kick arse at the height of Roman power but even they didn't stand the test of time.

I'm petrified of the thought of dieing, sometimes when i can't sleep i just think about it and i scare myself to sleep

Don't worry too much, dieing is still a part of life... the good thing is while dieing you might think 'Just let me die!' And if death is the end, then that'll be easy. So you most probably are heading to an easy thing from a hard thing.

True, but what scares me is if God doesn't exist; no Heaven or Hell, that means we can't even think and that's what gets me.

Kind of like before you were born.

gaminglegend wrote:Right, I'm don't know much about the LHC so please bear with me and help me out.

Its to recreate the big bang particles or something isn't it? The birth of the universe? It sounds a bit too far to be that so maybe I've heard it wrong as if we start firing out planets and all sorts it wont be good.

Generally I just don't know what its for.

Wikipedia wrote:The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV per particle or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus. It is expected that it will address the most fundamental questions of physics, which seem to block further progress in understanding the deepest laws of nature. The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (570 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

Lucien wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:To be fair every civilisation crumbles eventually. The civilisation we are in right now may be a long running one but it will end at some point when either nature gives us all a good pasting or we blow ourselves back into the stone age over dwindling resources. I bet the Romans thought they were pretty kick arse at the height of Roman power but even they didn't stand the test of time.

This. We're building things that are going to crash into a brick wall one day, and we keep making ourselves bigger even though we're very sure it'll come. It's very odd to me.

Pedz wrote:Why do I keep reading Large Hardon Collider?

Gario-ho-ho wrote:What happens if someone gets sucked off in a black hole in space?

Alpine Flurry wrote:

Pedz wrote:Why do I keep reading Large Hardon Collider?

You're gay, it's what you do.

Moggy wrote:

Gario-ho-ho wrote:What happens if someone gets sucked off in a black hole in space?

Fixed.

Cuban Pete wrote:

JewishSanta wrote:Large Hadron Collider.

who determined it "large".

imo, its massive, i'd have called it the Massive Hadron Collider.

Large just doesn't sound that much, its like one up from normal sized, do we have a scale of Hadron Collider's, this can't be the first, i'm sure i've read that sicentists have collided things before...

Maybe it collides large hadrons.

JewishSanta wrote:

Cuban Pete wrote:

JewishSanta wrote:Large Hadron Collider.

who determined it "large".

imo, its massive, i'd have called it the Massive Hadron Collider.

Large just doesn't sound that much, its like one up from normal sized, do we have a scale of Hadron Collider's, this can't be the first, i'm sure i've read that sicentists have collided things before...

Maybe it collides large hadrons.

hmmm maybe, then i'd have called it Collider of large hadrons.

my only problem with that, is, to the best of my knowlegde, which is mainly based on bbc 4 documentarys, that there are 2 tyrpes of hadron, baryons and mesons (i think thats the spelling), neither of which i've ever heard as being "large", or atleast larger than the other.