Ha i heard they were trying to recreate the big bang theory! heres a tip for you scientist there wasnt one! it was created in 7 days. so what ever these scientist are trying it will be nothing butt a FLOP!
On the original topic - with an accelerator so large and particles so small, what happens if they miss?
Even if there is a black hole, (which there is a 0.00000001 chance of happening) it will be 1/1000 of the size of a proton.
Once again proving that americans can not leave well enough alone.if we dont kill ourselves someone will do it for us.our gov't , the sun , cuba, Tv'syou name it it's our death
CERN's collider has been under construction since 2003, financed mostly by its 20 European member states. The United States and Japan are major contributors with observer status in CERN.
Still here?!? Ya, well, don't get all "See? I told you so!" on us just yet!They only got ONE particle beam going in ONE direction so far. (So you see, it's running at less than 1/2 power....)Oh, and I LOVE this part of this article I just read!:Meanwhile, William Hill celebrated Man's continued existence. It had taken £119 from punters willing to bet that September 10 2008 would see the end of the world.A spokesman said: "Our standard odds are 1,000,000/1, but anyone wanting longer or shorter odds is at liberty to take them. A number of customers took us up; on our offer and have bet that the world will end as a result of the Large Hadron Collider experiment."People BET THAT THE WORLD WOULD END AS A RESULT OF THE LHC?!?!?How the HECK did they expect to pick up their winnings?!?!
"What has been shown today is that technically, it all works." Take that as you will, but I looked at his choice of words as simply an official confirmation of MY OWN THEORY that this whole thing is a waste of time...Nothing but huge bills!
No actual atoms were smashed today -- that won't start for weeks -- and no results are expected for months, at the earliest. Still, like first light in a telescope, the first beam in the particle accelerator is a landmark moment for a program that has spanned more than 20 years and involved tens of thousands of scientists."What has been shown today is that technically it all works," said Jos Engelen, chief science officer for CERN, the European scientific research agency directing the efforts, in a live webcast from Geneva.Next up for the collider is cranking up the energy of the proton beams to about 10 trillion electron volts, more powerful than other particle accelerators like Fermilab's Tevatron but still short of the proposed maximum collision energy of 14 trillion electron volts that the researchers hope to reach.The next big moment will come when the first particle collisions occur. That had been tentatively scheduled for the official LHC unveiling on October 21, but the first beam firings could lead to an acceleration of that schedule."Based on today's evidence, things are going to move faster," said Mike Lamont, a member of CERN's beam operations team in the CERN webcast. "There's a remarkable number of systems working remarkably well -- the instrumentation, the magnets. There's still some hurdles to cross there, but we can anticipate collisions sooner than we planned."
