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[Reb]

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

[lordmaji]

SA Forums rule:

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that's pretty cool. Well hopefully they do get some good information out of this, hell maybe a new energy source from "dark matter" *shrug*

[Flannel Boy]

Check out Google's front page.

 

[Kestastrophe]

[lordmaji]

Check out Google's front page.

awesome

[recursivelyenumerable]

why can't we have our own LHC scientist here at EB?   

[muckhole]

why can't we have our own LHC scientist here at EB?   

All we have here are THC scientists.

Oh, and a TVC Athiest Scientist.

[Crushed]

That cart up there is the one that'll push the Xen crystal into the Anti-Mass Spectrometer.

[Eric P]

overhyped, under-delivered.

thanks, science

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Aren't we all supposed to be dead or something?

[MrAngryFace]

gah does no one read my replies

[Crushed]

From the BBC comments:

I am 11 years old and people at school are telling me that the earth will blow up because of this. Will it???

Isobel, Sheffield

Scientists can do all the experiments they like (although I am not convinced that the cost might have gone further in helping the poor of our world), but when they or the media portray what they are doing as 'fact' or 'absolute truth' i.e. big bang=how our world began, where does that leave those millions and millions over the world who think otherwise e.g. creation by God. If we stand up and say creation is fact and absolute truth we are shouted down and usually told we are idiots. Bias rules.

Catherine Clark, Bournemouth

i think it is terrible becuse they are killing every one!! i am only 8!!! and they are 45?

melissa mcparland, scotland

This Is So Stupid Because Could Of Killed Us All What A WASTE Of Money Could Of Been Used On Something A Lot Better!!!!

Amy, Bristol

i think this hole experiment shouldent of happened encase will all die cause my mates are saying it shouldent of happend your just killing the envoroment like that the scientist shouldent of dounet for there own safty .............

danielle, wolverhampton

i think its stupid and paffetic because all this stupid black hole bussness we could die because the holes wil get bigger n earth will get sucked upp so wts the point of us dieing for a stupid science expermentx

lyndsey, cumbria

It's amazing - the 'brightest' minds, humanly speaking, trying to recreate something which has been found to be totally false and has been disproved on many occasions and the fact that they are willing to spend billions of pounds disproving it again! Why not spend the money on providing long term Aid for a third world group of countries and just admit that maybe creation, that has nothing scientifically against it - on the contrary - all evidence agrees perfectly, and admit they were wrong!

Dan Leedham, Bradford, United Kingdom

in school a rumor has been said if it goes wrong everyone will get sucked into a big black whole

courtney, bridgwater

plz... don't start this oprationg , I think the big bang is more harmful for us . So I requesting u plz......................................... . stop ............................this opration

Ranjit Mohanty, Bhubaneswar

So, they decide to simulate the Big Bang at 09.30 GMT today underground and by 11.00 GMT there is a 6.1 strength earthquake in Iran. Coincidence or accident, I wonder?

Di Mac

"If this experiment can open doors to other dimensions for us, wouldn't it lets beings from other dimensions invade our one? If this is true shouldnt we wait untill we are equiped with more developed weapons before we experiment?

Liam, Brighton"

Don't worry, there are crowbars aplenty at CERN

G. Freeman

[Beardo]

"If this experiment can open doors to other dimensions for us, wouldn't it lets beings from other dimensions invade our one? If this is true shouldnt we wait untill we are equiped with more developed weapons before we experiment?

Liam, Brighton"

Don't worry, there are crowbars aplenty at CERN

G. Freeman

[TVC15]

Note how the majority of the dumb comments are from womyn.  They clearly need a new Palin-influenced version of feminism.

[BlueTsunami]

They also think Obama is a secret Muslim. Women

[Kestastrophe]

^^ Yet it's Americans that are stereotyped as "dumb"

[lordmaji]

^^ Yet it's Americans that are stereotyped as "dumb"

Jesus wasnt dumb! He a more American than a frenchie fries!  hat0rz.

American teh fr33! 

[muckhole]

gah does no one read my replies

I'm sure they have, it's just that you're taking the fun out of potential, imminent death.

[MrAngryFace]

I suppose youre right. Its either that or a McCain presidency

[muckhole]

 

[lordmaji]

Oh lord Satan... Please allow the black hole to swallow us all... like Shannon Tweed.

[muckhole]

I just hope at the end of all this, the string-theorists are proved wrong. I don't like the idea of parallel universes, where in one I potentially like bananas, and in another, I'm locked in TVC's basement, strapped to a medical examination table. *shudder*

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26641652/

[BlueTsunami]

Those Doomsday messages must have been scary as fuck. Its not like Shiva is gonna rip into this dimension or something.

I can't believe the global feeling of terror towards this isn't a joke.

[Reb]

This is stupid, the predictable jokes are stupid. Stupid.

[muckhole]

This is stupid, the predictable jokes are stupid. Stupid.

Now now, settle down. It's not like it's the end of the world.

Hooooooooo

[Powerslave]

I wish it was the end of the world. I'm sick of it.

[lordmaji]

This is stupid, the predictable jokes are stupid. Stupid.

Now now, settle down. It's not like it's the end of the world.

Hooooooooo

oh snap!

[maxy]

Nothing is going to happen today,it is just beam testing.

[Crushed]

from the cern dude on somethingawful:

There you have it, folks. The first beam was a complete and total success on all counts. Protons have been circulated at 450GeV (nominal) around both directions of the LHC.

Lyn Evans, head of the accelerator division looked like he was shitting gold bars earlier, and rightly so. This is the first time an accelerator has come online so quickly, without a single hitch. I thought it'd take a lot longer than it did to get to this stage, but it took less than 8 hours to get both beams circulating.

It looks like they didn't get cocky and attempt collisions, which is I guess a smart move- they ended on a roll instead of trying to push things. I'd say a lot of the teams involved will have been working around the clock to get here, and they deserve a rest.

In October, but possibly a little earlier than we expected, we will see first collisions. For now though, all the detectors are reporting that they have seen the beam, and been able to acquire data from it.

The LHCb saw tracks in the VELO, Outer Tracker, and even reconstructed rings in the RICH. This is the first data from the LHC beam!

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What you see above is reconstructed tracks (protons, and decay products) passing through the LHCb detector, fresh from the beam this morning. This is fucking glorious. I'm off out for some beers with the rest of my group.

Thanks for showing so much interest guys and gals- I'll be back on to answer anything you have to ask tomorrow.

[muckhole]

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Indian girl kills self over "Big Bang" fear: family

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080910/n_world_reuters/international_india_suicide_dc_1

[Greatness Gone]

This is some BULLSHIT. Where are the hott time-traveling British men, smoke monsters, and instruction videos? 

[Kestastrophe]

I wish it was the end of the world. I'm sick of it.

manabyte?

[drew]

we are like, the best species EVER.