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

    Large Hadron Collider Circulating Particle Beams Again

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

    Large Hadron Collider Overheats Due To Dropped Chunk Of Bread

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02:36 AM

    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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    Image of space_monkey space_monkey
    03:16 AM

    @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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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® promoted this comment space_monkey was starred space_monkey was unstarred
    Image of kickassy kickassy
    09:13 AM

    @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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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® promoted this comment kickassy was starred kickassy was unstarred
    Image of Gann Gann
    01:30 PM

    @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
    01:31 PM

    @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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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    11/20/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider Circulating Particle Beams Again

    This makes me happy. The caption says "The sign at top warns of the presence of helium, argon and/or nitrogen in nearby pipes - gases that (if they leaked out) could displace oxygen and cause unconsciousness. "
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    11/20/09

    @bornonbord: Huh. I thought it was a self-felatio warning.
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    Image of Kakkoii Kakkoii
    11/20/09

    @bornonbord: Thought it was a "Warning: This place causes depression" sign.
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    BergenCountyJC can edit his name? promoted this comment Kakkoii was starred Kakkoii was unstarred
    Image of wutlulzky wutlulzky
    11/20/09

    @bornonbord:
    that's the sign for a
    Large Hard-on Collider
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    BergenCountyJC can edit his name? promoted this comment wutlulzky was starred wutlulzky was unstarred
    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/20/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider Circulating Particle Beams Again
    For me, impressive and reliable go hand in hand. Without one, the other can't exist. Therefore, the LHC is neither.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    11/20/09

    @Duckspwn: If you are not impressed by the unimaginable complexity of this machine, they should fucking take your star away.

    In a system this large, the statistical probability of initial failure is almost 1. They expected it to break, and now it's fixed again. It will probably break again, and they'll eep fixing it until it works.
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    m4ximusprim3 promoted this comment Edited by m4ximusprim3 at 11/20/09 6:13 PM m4ximusprim3 was starred m4ximusprim3 was unstarred
    Image of Celladore Celladore
    11/20/09

    @Duckspwn: when I try to compile freshly written computer code, if there is a single error I toss the whole damn thing and move on with my life. Thus, I agree with you.
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/20/09

    .
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    Edited by Duckspwn at 11/20/09 6:56 PM Duckspwn was starred Duckspwn was unstarred
    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/20/09

    @m4ximusprim3: Hmm, so that's what it feels like to troll... Satisfying, but it leaves you with an odd, slightly dirty feeling. Kinda like masturbating.
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    Image of firewhisper firewhisper
    11/20/09

    @Duckspwn: i think youre doing it wrong then...
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    Duckspwn promoted this comment firewhisper was starred firewhisper was unstarred
    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    11/20/09

    @Duckspwn: How is that trolling? You're commenting on a gadget website devoted to cutting edge technology, just about none of which works reliably because it's first generation. Your viewpoint is techno-phobic to the point of absurdity - pointing out the obvious is not trolling.

    By the way- when I masturbate, it works every time. Impressed yet?
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/20/09

    @firewhisper: And why would you think that?
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    Duckspwn was starred Duckspwn was unstarred
    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/20/09

    @m4ximusprim3: "In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response..."
    You (along with others) seem to have taken my own opinion as a personal insult. Therefore, I just unintentionally trolled.
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    Edited by Duckspwn at 11/20/09 7:09 PM Duckspwn was starred Duckspwn was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/20/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider Circulating Particle Beams Again
    It's just a shame that people from the future are trying to stop it for some reason.
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    11/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Or, instead of future people, maybe it's just God.

    [www.timesonline.co.uk]
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    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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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Digo Digo
    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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    Image of met2art met2art
    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
     Reply
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    Image of dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
    11/06/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider Overheats Due To Dropped Chunk Of Bread
    It was a bird from the future! He's here to save us from ourselves. #lhcbaguetteincident
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    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    11/06/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider Overheats Due To Dropped Chunk Of Bread
    There are several theories that suggest that time travel is impossible because every time a time machine is invented people go to the past and mess something up, which causes it never to be invented.

    So right after we discovered time travel someone went back in time and scared a crow eating a sandwich. The crow flew over a cooling vent and dropped bread into it and POOF no more time travel, yet again.
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    Edited by Navin R Johnson at 11/06/09 10:29 AM Navin R Johnson was starred Navin R Johnson was unstarred
    Image of RJackson RJackson
    11/06/09

    @Navin R Johnson: Well, the most accepted theories state time travel isn't yet in existence as both where travelling from and destination both need a functioning time machine.

    What you suggested is a paradox: Someone travels back in time to stop the creation of a time machine THUS stopping themselves travelling back in time THUS the time machine is created [repeat x infinite] #lhcbaguetteincident
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    Navin R Johnson promoted this comment RJackson was starred RJackson was unstarred
    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    11/06/09

    @RJackson:
    "What you suggested is a paradox"

    Exactly my point. This very paradox is what keep the LHC from operating!

    If you believe that any time travel to the past would create such a paradox then it follows that any time line that contains an event which allows time travel to the past will have zero probability.

    Read: Novikov self-consistency principle

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    #lhcbaguetteincident
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    Image of dambo29: Rosa kicks butt! dambo29: Rosa kicks butt!
    11/06/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider Overheats Due To Dropped Chunk Of Bread
    Ooooops!

    #RosaRocks
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