'Big bang' machine achieves its first particle collisions

[Paroxysm]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/physics/article6929199.ece

The Large Hadron Collider smashed its first proton beams together yesterday, three days after it was restarted following a 14-month shutdown for repairs.

The particle accelerator’s Atlas detector picked up the first signs of a possible collision at 1.22pm GMT, after its two beams were made to cross and crash into one another for the first time.

While the event involved low-intensity beams and will not reveal new physics, it marks an important milestone in the commissioning of the £5 billion “big bang machine”. It will also help scientists to calibrate the atom-smasher’s detectors, so that they are ready to operate when it runs at higher energies next year.

So what happens when they amp up the power? what happens if someone ****s up? Is it possible to create some sort of man made black hole?

 

[Alex The Great]

They crossed the beams?

Were doomed

 

[BlueLightning]

They crossed the streams? They should also say Betelgeuse three times and feed a Mogwai after midnight while they are on this.

 

[Mike_D202]

Well we're all still here so thats good

 

[Hound55]

It gaves the scientists a major hadron...

 

[Timstuff]

So who built the particle accelerator that began the universe?

 

[Hound55]

So who built the particle accelerator that began the universe?

Booster Gold.

 

[Addendum]

So who built the particle accelerator that began the universe?

Galactus, or it could have been the outer gods

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I still think Jimmy Saville is involved in all this...

 

[Deadpool876]

This thing cost £5 billion?!?! Are you f****** kidding me?! Just think of all the....aww, never mind.

 

[BillyZaned]

Not enough mass within the colliding partials to create a lasting blackhole...

 

[Ace of Knaves]

This thing cost £5 billion?!?! Are you f****** kidding me?! Just think of all the....aww, never mind.

They should make it Englands WMD.

America: We have 10,000 nukes!

Russian and China: We have 10,000 nukes!

England: Yea well we have a black hole maker, now **** off.

 

[BestGirl]

Has this big bang machine created its own mini-universe yet?

 

[KevanG]

Don't they have something like this in the States? A collider or something that could make a black hole? It's like we're trying to destory the solar system or something...

 

[BillyZaned]

nature is continuously creating LHC-like collisions when much higher-energy cosmic rays collide with the Earth's atmosphere, with the Sun, and with other objects such as white dwarfs and neutron stars. If such collisions posed a danger, the consequences for Earth or these astronomical objects would have become evident already

 

[Marx]

The collider still makes me nervous.

 

[Darthphere]

Prepare the red matter.

 

[BillyZaned]

The collider still makes me nervous.

like I posted... the collider just creates what is already going on around us, in a vaccum that sceintist can safely observe....

if tiny particles collide, adn could cause a micro-black hole, that would be stable, and consume earth... it would have happened billions of years ago within are atmosphere...

 

[Hound55]

Listen to your friend BillyZaned. He's a cool dude...

 

[piccolo]

Great. Just ****ing great.

 

[Darthphere]

like I posted... the collider just creates what is already going on around us, in a vaccum that sceintist can safely observe....

if tiny particles collide, adn could cause a micro-black hole, that would be stable, and consume earth... it would have happened billions of years ago within are atmosphere...

"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. "

 

[BillyZaned]

"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. "

trust me... in hundreds of years, when interstellar travel is possible... the partical collider will be viewed as the day mankind took that next step forward....

this will lead to advances in space travel forsure.... possible engineering in how to bend the fabric of space... that black stuff out there... it's not "nothing"... and that is how light speed will become reality....

 

[Darthphere]

trust me... in hundreds of years, when interstellar travel is possible... the partical collider will be viewed as the day mankind took that next step forward....

this will lead to advances in space travel forsure.... possible engineering in how to bend the fabric of space... that black stuff out there... it's not "nothing"... and that is how light speed will become reality....

Yes, and when it opens a parallel universe where a warring nation from an alternate reality takes us over and makes us their slaves, we will shun the day the particle collider was ever created.

 

[BillyZaned]

Yes, and when it opens a parallel universe where a warring nation from an alternate reality takes us over and makes us their slaves, we will shun the day the particle collider was ever created.

yeah. but when it turns out to the be the sexual agressive and experimental all women with big breasts universe... you will glee with joy

 

[Mee]

Big Bang Machine sounds like a porno.