Fjool Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 So a beam has made it all the way around the ring by now... ahead of schedule. Certain optimistic scientists (Brian Cox) are suggesting that we might even get an actual collision today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeAyBee Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Best suggestion was the one made on the Armando Iannucci show on Friday.All the locals should dress up as zombies, so when the scientists come back up to the surface after switching on ... There was this great suggestion from some of the more human NASA employees for when John Glenn flew in the shuttle. They wanted the Florida recovery crew to wear ape masks and do the whole Planet of the Apes thing. For CERN does anyone know where we can get some giant plastic cockroaches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooter Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 They reckon it will be about 4 weeks before the collisions start and next year before its working at full speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 1121am (BST) FROM Andrew Caspari, Radio 4, in central control room The big screens are back on in the central control room so it looks as though they are gearing up to send the beam the other way round. They were not initially expecting to do this today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 watch the control room live here http://mms://qstream-live.qbrick.com/00862live80910 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtothet Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ some of the source code from those sites: whats that monkey stuff about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 thats both beams (clockwise and anti clockwise) round the collider, next to start the smashing they were saying on radio 4 earlier that it's going to be the end of next year before they have any meaningful results from it tho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 lets buy some big torches and shine them at each other, that subatomic particals traveling at the speed of light. and lets invoice the eu £500000000 for it. that should restore our depleted cash reserves. listerning to the radio and there was this german scientist giving a very evil laugh very unnerving as he was pressing the button. could it all be a con it may just be the french getting a free cheese/ wine store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 lets buy some big torches and shine them at each other, that subatomic particals traveling at the speed of light.If only CERN had you working for them all this time. Seriously though, photons have no mass and are therefore unsuitable for the task. Pushing lead ions around at close to the speed of light gives them enormous (relatively) mass. If you were to travel at such a speed you would end up weighing something like the same as a jumbo jet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 to quote the scientists early you would weigh more like "500,000 tonnes"so maybe a few jumbos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Yeah, you're right; I did wonder that it seemed a little low. Thanks for correcting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 makes a change for me to be correcting you m8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 lets buy some big torches and shine them at each other, that subatomic particals traveling at the speed of light.If only CERN had you working for them all this time. Seriously though, photons have no mass and are therefore unsuitable for the task. Pushing lead ions around at close to the speed of light gives them enormous (relatively) mass. If you were to travel at such a speed you would end up weighing something like the same as a jumbo jet... hey it wont work but for 5 billion i will give it a try. its in france folks can we trust them. we could feed up the photons untill they were obese but of course they would then slow down a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 I think it's mostly in switzerland is it not?http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=large+hadron+collider&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.248626,37.617188&ie=UTF8&ll=46.16081,6.138611&spn=1.40584,2.351074&z=9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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