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Atomic collision, and we're still ALIVE !

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exile_ch
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That's right, the LHC (large hadron collider) finally worked and there was NO FUCKING blackhole !

"After two false starts due to electrical failures, protons that were whipped to more than 99 percent of the speed of light and to record-high energy levels of 3.5 trillion electron volts apiece raced around a 17-mile underground magnetic track outside Geneva a little after 1 p.m. local time. They crashed together inside apartment-building-size detectors designed to capture every evanescent flash and fragment from microscopic fireballs thought to hold insights into the beginning of the universe."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/31collider.html

So give it a few months/years to analyse it and we should be able to explain a bit more what was the big bang and how energy was created from it.  Pretty amazing if you ask me.

Boys, we're entering a new era in physics understanding...

[IMG]techcurse.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/hadron-colider1.jpg[/IMG] 
Mar 31 2010 5:42AM
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LockyK
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glad we werent sucked into a black hole created by that thing.

shits getting real in the science world now!
Mar 31 2010 5:44AM
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Big.L
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haha my art teacher always talks about that thing, i knew it wouldnt make a black hole
Mar 31 2010 7:47AM
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hartig
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who cares if it did make a black hole or not.. its not like we would notice
Mar 31 2010 8:50AM
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uosdwiSrjewoH
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you just sent me on a physics wikipedia adventure my friend
Mar 31 2010 9:04AM
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WikiWiki
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saw this on the news- apparently theyre going to run it for some time before stopping to upgrade some of the magnets in the fall- stoked that we werent sucked into a black hole
Mar 31 2010 10:15AM
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drumbumocdp
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That machine is crazy. Pretty cool that its actually working now
Mar 31 2010 10:17AM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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We were never going to get sucked into a black hole, even if a black hole did form, it would have been infinitely small. and since black holes are apparently only able to live in a time relative to their size, it would have disappeared immediately. I can't wait to see what they get out of this.
Mar 31 2010 10:18AM
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prontocuts.com
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oh shit hes right


we are in a paradox world right now


fuck
Mar 31 2010 10:47AM
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+[wall.e]+
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The only reason I knew what the Large Hadron Collider was from watching Big Bang Theory and the episode where Leonard promised he would bring Sheldon. But then he was going to bring Penny, and Sheldon brought up the clause in the room mate agreement, but then Penny got sick and so did Sheldon so he brought Raj.

The End.
Mar 31 2010 10:55AM
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EH_DUBS
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i love that show.
Mar 31 2010 11:42AM
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bstuck1
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shit, watch out



http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
Mar 31 2010 11:48AM
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rigzz
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Second that. I always feel like a nerd listening to that show. Last episode was stupid as fuck.
Mar 31 2010 11:50AM
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An10a_Eng
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anybody how though the LHC was going to do anything other than cost a shit ton of money should be deemed legally retarded and prohibited from operating a vehicle or reproducing
Mar 31 2010 12:47PM
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