Large Hadron Collider

[Steve Limpus]

One day to go! Can't wait... although they say it will be months or years till we hear any juicy results. So, to whet the appetite:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/157518/page/1

[damian1727]

i hour to go!!

10....9....8

we get a whole day about it on bbc radio 4 sweet


some real (good) news 4 a change


hurrah!

[Steve Limpus]

Hey Damian,

How's tricks? Hope you're keeping well.

Been reading Smolin's Three Roads to Quantum Gravity - great read. Love this quote: "We are very used to imagining that we see a three dimensional world when we look around [but in reality] we do not see space [just information] - instead we are looking back through [a slice of] the history of the Universe".

Trippy...

And - Go the boys and girls at CERN!

[Steve Limpus]

Checked out the bbc4 Big Bang website - cool.

Can't download most of the content here at work (bumm3r!) Will have to wait 'til I get home tonite.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/

Physics is so more interesting than work!

[Merlin5]

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

[Steve Limpus]

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/


...and click the little question mark at the bottom for some good stuff.

[Steve Limpus]

Hey there Merlin. Can't get YouTube at work either - but I'll take a look later.

[damian1727]

hi steve ....well we are still here then lol


i like lee smolin books i will check that one out he always gives you somthing to think about even if you dont agree....


i wonder how long till we get some results thro

[Steve Limpus]

Soon I hope. They reckon Hawking has a $100 bet they won't find the Higgs, which is interesting. I really do hope its all a huge success so that they get funding to build the next one.

[AmroB]

Right. I’m confident that the LHC will not destroy the Earth :-) However, for science fiction’s sake, what would happen if a blackhole was created and didn’t vaporise?! I mean, it would sink to the Earth’s centre devouring it from inside out, but, what would the whole scenario look like? I would like to see a good sci-fi article or book about this where the author gets their science facts right only ignoring Hawking’s Radiation obviously. What do you think folks; does anyone have an idea or know of such article/book?

It’s really exciting moments me thinks and it will definitely get better when the results from the LHC start coming out!

[abo999]

LHC Webcams:

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

[Empyre]

This cannot possibly happen:
The CERN Black Hole

[Empyre]

Oops! sorry for the double (now triple) post. The second time, I saw that the post will not be visible until it is approved.