Large Hadron Collider

Keep up the good work from Flomaton

I'd be interested to see what particles originate from the proton blast

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

Every generation needs their "Great Pyramid".

Me and Arthur Dent will be sure to bring our towels to the end of the world show...

http://current.com/items/89302331_the_real_first_beam

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.

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.

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

thanks brandon for jumping on this.

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.

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.

This reminds me of a condensed version of "The Big Bang Machine" which premired on the Discovery Science channel recently.

Narrarated by Brian Cox, who works at CERN and has worked at Fermi Labs, the program is an excellent public educational tool...

...here's a link to the 1st of 5 videoes on YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHs7hu9hgKc

Enjoy ^_^

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.

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

It's things like this which will propel us into the space age at the speed of light.

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.

Ellie Lockner is the cutest scientist I've ever seen...

Enough with the fearmongering! I'm having flashbacks of the Y2K scare...

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.

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.

"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.

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..

Isn't the answer 42 ?

May you live in interesting times.

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