CERN prepares to test the collider...this weekend

This whole thing is huge but its totally wrong. Those crazy scientists have no idea what they are going to open.Its healthy for the ppl to freak out cuz there gonna be changes pretty soon.. The whole air feels different already and nothing's gonna be the same fron now on. There's no turning back and earth will become a living hell. You ll probably think im the crazy one but im not. Just w8 and keep ur eyes wide open, there will be night that ppl would not even sleep. Damn them! Some things are just not ment to be opened.

"The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the LHC will re-create the conditions present in the Universe just after the Big Bang." wouldn't that require a big bang in order for that to occur? I hope they don't blow up the planet.

a couple more things. Al Gore actually was involved with these guys and got the funding pushed through to get this going. It can be looked up, but Im too lazy tonight after a day with the neurosurgeon.

The theory about galaxies and black holes: They believe with good theory that black holes are at the heart of spiral galaxies (there are a few classes of galaxies, but I wont bore you with that), and are what causes the whirlpool look of those galaxies such as Andromeda and our own Milky Way.

As for the news. This would never get anything but passing mention on any news channel. People just aren't interested in these things. Now if they can discover what happened in the space of time immediately following the big bang? That would be awesome but still lost on the masses. Maybe I should start an astronomy discussion and education website. I could discuss this forever.

Well we have hit my love here as I am a physics and astronomy geek.

I believe if you do the right research, at some point in the last 5 years, I believe it was an American based collider that actually created a miniscule black hole that lasted in the pico second range. They cannot be sustained in a collider. Colliders work mostly by numbers and chance. They use thousands of particles pulsed at regular intervals in separate tubes then they are brought to a common chamber (for lack of a better word) to collide. More often than not, nothing even collides. But this is very important research and nothing to be afraid of.

Being afraid of the nuclear power plants McCane wants, is about 10 to the 10th to the 100th more rational than fearing a collider. Unless they someday get a whole lot smarter and have a collider about 30 times larger than the current largest...worry more about a furnace fire. It's harmless and can teach us much.

I'm really interested in what's going to happen. Can't wait.

They're going drop a load in their pants when that bubble grows to about 3' in dia. and starts shooting sparks and the gubenator pops out. Somebody call Sarah Conner.

I think we could have an exciting breakthrough. What is there to fear? Death? Becoming the next Atlantis? I'm not afarid to die anyway. How can we answer questions without experimentation?

This is the most exciting experiment in the world... man on the moon? Ha! But, the people who are "scared" are just uneducated on this experiment. Read up on it.. or try the History channel's the Universe. It simplifies a lot of these ideas. Try the one on Black Holes, or there is a better one. I can't remember it. Sorry.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. It was prophesied 6,000 years ago that the earth would not again be destroyed with water, but it would be destroyed by fire. To reiterate what Stephen Hawking said (whom is referenced in this experiment): Mankind runs a greater risk of destroying himself by nuclear holocaust than any other end of the world scenario.

WOW. i'm almost speechless......there's gotta be a reason this isn't all over the national news (the corrupted news) because it would most likely spark another red scare world wide....

I can't wait to meet my evil twin from an alternate universe.
Oh wait, that was during a layover in Dallas Ft. Worth last month...

Old news... I saw this in Return of the Jedi. To make a long story short, the fighters fly into the center of the station through a narrow maze of pipes to destroy the reactor and rush out in just enough time to escape the ensuing explosion.

I think it's better to go out in a cosmic flash, than to endure the slow moral degradation forced on us by my right wing brothers and sisters.

Quick and painless.

This is the most exciting experiment ever, so much for man on the moon....this is light years beyond wonderfull. I can't wait to see the discoveries that come to us from this accomplishment. Way to go CERN!!!!!

Forget the ignorant fear mongers and dooms sayers....they need to project their neurosis on something ....Maybe this will help them in their evolution towards getting a clue.

I'm tired of all the nut-jobs who don't have a clue about physics spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt about this project.

We've already been doing this on a slightly smaller scale for decades, and the universe has done far more than this for hundreds of billions of years.

I wish we could deny the naysayers all of the benefits we will eventually reap from these experiments.

Those who say the earth will be swallowed by a black hole are the same people that thought the first nuclear bomb would "ignite the atmosphere."

If these people ruled the world, we'd never have discovered fire.

They're not "trying to create black holes" -- they're trying to split subatomic particles into their constituent parts. This process will likely create "conditions similar to those exhibited by black holes". Pretty big difference.

Does John Titor ring a bell to anyone?

The sky is falling, it hit me on the head.

Seriously. People are retarded.

Yeah, lets turn this bitch on. Rip the world in half or infest it with the demonic. Great.

What has science done? D:

What if they succeed in making another world? Creeeepyyyyyyy.

Prepare for the possibility of being slowly sucked into a black hole on our own planet, time slows down and none of us will even realize it's happened till it's too late.

I was so happy being oblivious until I read this and have to deal with the possibility that I might already have ceased to exist and just don't realize it yet.

this makes my 2012 preparations all for naught.

What is the worst that can happen...never mind.

I'm suddenly reminded of the first time I played Half-Life.

Kiss yo ass goodbye!

Here's to the human race! It was a good run, had to end some time!

We are totally going to have hover boards in 10 years!
:D

I'm glad I'm not near that thing.

maybe it'll open up an alternate universe that is a reflection of our own! how exciting!

Hopefully it won't get shut down from the future... which was stated in an article I read on the interwebs.

According to some info on the web they are conducting 4 different experiments (those big 'machines' in the pictures) to prove several theories or similar.

One major experiment is going to happen in the so called 'Atlas' experiment, in which they are trying to simulate the setting of fenoseconds (?) after the big bang (black hole - experiment).

Through that they are expecting to find a 'Higgs Boson' particle, that just exists in theory at the moment.

cant they wait until after the olympics, anyway ill see you all in the black hole, oh yeah can someone bring some papers , im out

ugggh..... tommy you just feaked the shit out of me.

I hope they know what the f they're doing........

can someone tell me before we all get sucked into nothing WHY we they need to be "accelerating and colliding beams at an energy of five teraelectronvolts"???

My brother is so so scared of this & I am as well.
I've seen a BBC documentary about this some while ago.
Apparently they are trying to open a tiny black hole for milliseconds.
But what happens if even a tiny black hole succeeds all our expectations of the power involved in such an experiment (which I would guess, as some galaxys are apparently black holes)?

I might not get all the facts right as I know next to nothing about these kind of things. I'm unfortunately no scientist.

It is like watching a group of rich little boys and girls playing with fire works in the back yard. Eventually some one is going to get burned.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

My hope is for a a 4th dimension to be discovered that can make my life cooler.