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Has the large hadron collider destroyed the world yet?

 
 
nimh
 
Reply Fri 10 Oct, 2008 09:09 pm
If you want to make sure, this website has the answer
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roger
 
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Reply Fri 10 Oct, 2008 10:50 pm
@nimh,
Did they get that sucker back up, and running again?
Robert Gentel
 
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Reply Fri 10 Oct, 2008 10:56 pm
@roger,
They answered that question on the site as well.

(actually, I'm not sure if it was repaired yet, but they are restarting it in spring 09)
roger
 
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Reply Fri 10 Oct, 2008 10:57 pm
@Robert Gentel,
My bad. I hardly ever follow links.
Robert Gentel
 
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Reply Fri 10 Oct, 2008 10:59 pm
@roger,
I can tell ya still haven't. ;-)
Sglass
 
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Reply Fri 10 Oct, 2008 11:49 pm
what are the similarities between the hadron collider and the Princeton Excellerator?
roger
 
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Reply Fri 10 Oct, 2008 11:55 pm
@Sglass,
Uh, they both cost more than I've earned in a livetime?
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roger
 
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Reply Sat 11 Oct, 2008 12:54 am
@Robert Gentel,
I have now! Thanks, nimh. It was obvious, but I needed that, anyway.
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roger
 
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Reply Sat 11 Oct, 2008 01:06 am
@Sglass,
Uh oh. I bet I just fell for something else real stupid.
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Sat 11 Oct, 2008 02:54 am
But it has shown zero tolerance to large hadrons.

They're looking for quarks. They are my favourite sub-atomic particles coz they come in nicely weird 'flavours', such us 'up', 'down', 'strange' and 'charm'.

Quark is also the German word for a cheese like ricotta. These physicists are either seriously dope-smokers or just having us on.
nimh
 
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Reply Tue 14 Oct, 2008 06:49 pm
http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hadron.gif
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hawkeye10
 
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Reply Thu 6 Aug, 2009 09:03 pm
It appears that due to shoddy workmanship that we don't need to worry about the earth getting sucked into a man made black whole for a couple of years

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CERN will not try for seven trillion electron volts until after a prolonged shutdown, during which the technicians plan to fix all the faulty splices. In addition to the splice problems, many of the magnets that steer the protons around the ring have mysteriously lost their ability to withstand enough current to steer high-energy protons. They will have to be “retrained,” in physicist jargon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/science/space/07collider.html?hpw
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Fri 7 Aug, 2009 10:12 pm
@Mr Stillwater,
Mr Stillwater wrote:

But it has shown zero tolerance to large hadrons.

They're looking for quarks. They are my favourite sub-atomic particles coz they come in nicely weird 'flavours', such us 'up', 'down', 'strange' and 'charm'.

Quark is also the German word for a cheese like ricotta. These physicists are either seriously dope-smokers or just having us on.

They were named after a line in "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce.
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