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Large Hadron Collider

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The biggest science experiment in human history turns on this summer in the hopes of answering questions of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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  • Flomaton
  • Jkeentauna
  • Swift_Electron
  • Brandon_in_Paris
  • MARTEEN
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      MARTEEN  

    • why isn't this longer??? i read about this in the da vinci code and was fascinated by it. i would like to see this same story more in depth... and exactly how big is this machine? it never says

    • 3 years ago
  • dwb2585
  • Brandon_in_Paris
  • covert1
  • KI4CLZ
  • arturogarza
  • ningnong
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      ningnong  

    • The scariest thing about the black hole theory is that it might slow and stretch time and space. How frightening to think that I might be stuck in an exaggerated 2008. What if I live a super-long minute where my consciousness is merged with a Right-Wing Anti-Me? But maybe it'll be like on the Dark Crystal and my two selves will merge and create a crystalline light creature. Gosh, I can only hope.

    • 3 years ago
  • ColossalView
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      ColossalView  

    • It is a far more interesting project than any fears of a black hole at the core. I don't believe we such power or knowledge to create a black hole at our earth's core...at least I hope.

    • 3 years ago
  • alexisstember
  • AlbeeYap
  • jonny2times
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      jonny2times  

    • Once you've seen and understood that, consider this.

      Big-Bang+No Observer=Spark of infinite Possibilities.

      Big-Bang+6.7 Billion Observers= ?!

    • 3 years ago
  • ZomgShaylex
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      ZomgShaylex  

    • I must admit, my friends and I joked around about the world ending when we found out about this. Haha, we even went so far as to say our "final good byes" that night before they turned that big thing on. Of course once again, the world has not ended after a huge freak out. Wait until we blow ourselves up; that will seal the deal.

    • 3 years ago
  • wordless
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      wordless  
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    • this is a fascinating essay, a bit old now, but the principle holds.

      "Science is a spectacle as well as a methodology of the spectacle and increasingly one of its main methodologies. It is the alchemy of technocrats who see their flowcharts and algorithms as beckoning a superior organisation of knowledge and power. "Power is knowledge,", the old adage goes, and scientific knowledge is the atomised theory which grants the power to modern technological capitalism. Science, from being the once revolutionary expression of the bourgeois class has become the spectacularised power which legalises, regularises and rationalises its pseudo-victories."

    • 3 years ago
  • wordless
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      wordless  

    • 1: i can't believe they spent 20 billion dollars on this while people starve to death

      2: they seem like religious fanatics of some kind, going to such extreme lengths to prove they're right that they start to look almost like they've made a religion out of science and now they're grand inquisitors torturing nature and ready to burn it all at the stake of total planet-cide for the sake of their theories.

      3: death by black hole might not be so bad.

    • 3 years ago
  • pannida
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      pannida  
    • wordless:

      1. Your indignation is contemptible, while the US government spends ~440 BILLION dollars in 2007 alone to wage war taking the lives of others, it hardly seems comparable.

      2. Religious fanatics they are not, please don't spout off with your end times hysteria, smarter people than you know this won't cause our doom.

      3. ....

    • 3 years ago
  • wordless
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      wordless  
    • wordless:

      no, believe me, i actually hold the u.s. government in far greater contempt. Yes, 440 billion for war is worse than 20 billion for science; but I'm quite sure it will end up having some military application or another, and will require spending even more. Why is my indignation so contemptible to you?
      they're talking a lot about god, and they do sound like they've made a religion out of science.
      i'm no end times hysteric. these people are beginning-times hysterics. who cares where it all comes from? why are they putting so much effort into this garbage except that a "few good corporations" can get their hands on juicy contracts to build junk like this?
      what are they trying to prove? we don't know. What do they think they'll get out of this? a confirmation of some theory. The problem with these types is that they're so excited to take their 'laws' and their 'theories' for the reality.

    • 3 years ago
  • Narcoleptic_Insomnia
  • pannida
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      pannida  

    • People need to chill, look at it this way: if there's nothing you can do to change the outcome, don't worry about it. And if there something you can do about it, don't worry about it.

    • 3 years ago
  • soundsaboutright
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      soundsaboutright  

    • Thanks for making this...

      I've been hearing rumblings about the LHC's potential for ending life as we know it for a while now. However, common sense dictates that the people utilizing this machine are much smarter than the people predicting the death and destruction it could cause.

      I'm excited to hear about their findings

    • 3 years ago
  • ianakaeeen
  • Bovey
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      Bovey  
    • ianakaeeen:

      Or perhaps it will simply lead to a painless bikini wax.

      The beauty of pure research such as this is that it tends to lead us new discoveries or understandings that we never even imagined it could.

      Yeah Science!

    • 3 years ago
  • ianakaeeen
  • Brandon_in_Paris
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      Brandon_in_Paris  

    • To those of you worried about this experiment and its possible consequences:

      Having been there and met these people, I can assure you they are way smarter than any other group of people I've ever met. On top of that, they are extremely thorough, precise, careful, and extraordinarily humble.

      What I'm saying is, if they thought there was any risk, they wouldn't do it. That's just not their style.

    • 3 years ago
  • treetv12
  • UrbanGypsy
  • dekiman1
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      dekiman1  

    • The internet was a byproduct of this experiment, the physicists used the "world wide web",initially, to communicate with each other around the world before turning it public...we seem to be enjoying it... I think the issue usually is not the scientific discovery itself, but how it is utilized.

    • 3 years ago
  • Mulcahey
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      Mulcahey  

    • Everyone's laughing at the black hole crowd because - according to vids like this - the machine has been turned on and "the world is still spinning." BUT....

      1) The machine has just accelerated particles. It hasn't smashed them together...yet.

      2) If the Earth were sucked into a black hole, there's no telling how long it would take us to realize it, since space/time would be slowed down and stretched.

    • 3 years ago
  • homunculus_14
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      homunculus_14  

    • "Faith... faith is an island in the setting sun. But proof, yeah, proof is the bottom line for everyone." ~Paul Simon

      Our hubris -- the supposition that we can scientifically recreate some of the deepest secrets of the universe -- will someday be our downfall. Let us not forget what curiosity did to the cat.

    • 3 years ago
  • Bovey
  • pannida
  • heathurrrrr
  • Valleriana
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      Valleriana  

    • LHC is the worst thing ever! Many ppl are happy about it but soon theyll gonna regreat it. Its so wrong this whole thing. Its gonna bring bad things very very bad to us. Prepare for the worst and i wish that all my premonitions are wrong. I hope so..

    • 3 years ago
  • digitrash
  • grease_weasel
  • Bovey
  • ianakaeeen
  • Dmitri_Molotov
  • VSiskos
  • CalgarC
  • mcamargo
  • UrbanGypsy
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      UrbanGypsy  

    • This is for all the people who said that science would never be able to solve the problems of the universe.

      "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

      Charles Darwin

    • 3 years ago
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