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    OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider

    This Is Simply The Coolest Pop-Up Book We've Seen

    Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/21/09

    In reply to OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider
    Wouldn't it be a real kick in the pants if they did all this work, went through all this effort, only to find nothing at all..
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    11/21/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: But finding nothing would be significant in itself. We'd have to go and revise or develope new theories.
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    Image of kickassy kickassy
    11/21/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Not finding the Higgs Boson would be the best result of all. Other particles could be found that point to other theories like Supersymetry. The Higgs Boson leaves many hole in solutions of physics.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/21/09

    @kickassy: They won't find it. Higgs never should have shifted his focus from the Higgs condensate.
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    Image of kosai kosai
    11/20/09

    In reply to OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider
    I think it might be because they are scientists not engineers.
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    11/20/09

    In reply to OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider
    It's a complex machine made up of many different parts, all designed to work together, but only integrated last year. Each of those parts will conform to its specifications (within a certain margin), but you never know how everything is going to work together until you build it and try it. You can model and predict and design all you want, but no model is perfect... that's why we use healthy margins of safety. So yeah, I imagine they do have a much better feel for the machine now than they did then.

    That's not to say the understanding of the physics has changed. The likelihood of the machine producing a blackhole which kills us all is still just as likely as the spontaneous transformation of every southpaw into a giant man-eating, airbreathing tunafish.

    Still, I find the idea that the Higgs boson cannot exist free, and thus the LHC can never function properly, fascinating. It's not as outlandish as many thing.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/20/09

    In reply to OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider
    Yeah, they now understand that French bread is its equivalent of kryptonite for Superman, or Limburger cheese for Mighty Mouse.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/21/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: They're now enforcing a strict no-baguette zone.
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/20/09

    In reply to OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider
    "Yeah, we don't really even know what we are doing here... we just welded a bunch of shiny shit together to make a rough circle of tubes underground. And then fired like, particles and stuff through it. It was awesome dude."
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    Edited by Duckspwn at 11/20/09 10:01 PM Duckspwn was starred Duckspwn was unstarred
    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    11/20/09

    In reply to OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider
    It's gonna be y2k all over again! #sendhelp
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    11/12/09

    In reply to This Is Simply The Coolest Pop-Up Book We've Seen
    A pop up book about the LHC should also have a page showing massive piles of money being sucked into a vortex. #atlaspopupbook
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    11/12/09

    In reply to This Is Simply The Coolest Pop-Up Book We've Seen
    I will make a black hole
    You will see something new
    But first I must collide
    Particle one and particle two #atlaspopupbook
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    11/12/09

    In reply to This Is Simply The Coolest Pop-Up Book We've Seen
    In related news, the Pop-Up Book of Erectile Dysfunction has been a total failure...
    [gizmodo.com] #atlaspopupbook
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    10/30/09

    In reply to Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level
    So if CERN is Black Mesa, just who is Aperture Science? #cernhalflife
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    Image of KTK1990 KTK1990
    10/30/09

    In reply to Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level
    I hope they have some big doors there that lock tight, to hold all the aliens in there.

    But, the vortigons (sp?), can actually be useful and go into the medical industry. Since they revived Alyx after her enounter with the hunter. #cernhalflife
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/30/09

    In reply to Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level
    Not sure about that. I don't see the crowbar... #cernhalflife
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    10/30/09

    In reply to Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level
    As a guy named Gordon -- and a Gordon who has worked at particle accelerators before, and is wearing a SLAC hoodie at this very moment, at that -- I completely agree with this assessment. #cernhalflife
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    Image of Jackhole Jackhole
    10/30/09

    In reply to Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level
    Needs more boxes and 50 gallon barrels. And headcrabs. #cernhalflife
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    10/30/09

    @Jackhole: The halls in the basement of the local University's physics department are lined with big crates, usually marked with some indication that it had once shipped some sort of big honking laser. #cernhalflife
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    Image of Jackhole Jackhole
    10/31/09

    @dingus: Clearly CERN needs some instruction from your local Univ. They also need more dangling, sparking electrical wires. #cernhalflife
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    Image of olternaut olternaut
    10/10/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider Scientist by Day, Suspected Al Qaeda Terrorist by Night
    Are you freaking kidding me??? The device can potentially implode the bloody PLANET and the geniuses that run the place hire terrrorists to help run it?

    Well that's just BRILLIANT!
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    Image of Mio Mio
    10/10/09

    @olternaut: The LHC can not potentially implode the planet. It's the same hysteria every time someone builds a new collider. Go learn some physics, moron.
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    d_r_e promoted this comment Edited by Mio at 10/10/09 12:07 PM Mio was starred Mio was unstarred
    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    10/10/09

    @Mio:

    Well said. I'm so freaking tired of these uninformed dolts saying that the LHC will implode the earth. Sigh.
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