Large Hardon Collider

[Jim Beaux]

I have so been trying to NOT post this.

If the Large Hadron Collider goes wrong on Wednesday we will all
1) instantly disappear into a black hole
2) take about a month/week to disintegrate into the biblical apocalypse.
NB Where is Mandy when you need her for a comment?

But no. This is NOT the Large Hadron Collider.

IT IS THE LARGE HARDON COLLIDER.

Visit http://largehardoncollider.com/ to see what really happens.
The science of large hardons explained! In graphics!!! :whoa:

[flombago]

The worry about the black holes is easy to prove false: we are bombarded every day by cosmic rays whose collisions are typically far more energetic than the LHC. No apocalypse in 4 billion years ...

[Ecstatic]

That is too funny! I'll have to ask my niece the physicist about the large hardon collider!

[Jordan]

I'm confused, is it HADRON and not Hard-ON? I clicked Jim's link and saw a redirection link for a Large hadron Collider... I dunno.. Dammit I was hoping to see Large Hard on's!!

[Jim Beaux]

I'm confused, is it HADRON and not Hard-ON? I clicked Jim's link and saw a redirection link for a Large hadron Collider... I dunno.. Dammit I was hoping to see Large Hard on's!!

1. Flombago is right. The world will not end - again!!!!!

2. Somebody has worked out that the world mis-spells hadrons (the things in the Large Hadron Collider) as hardons. People are trying too look up the large hardons collider. Wherein you get Higgs-Bosom particles. And this explanation of large hardons and black holes. :eek:

[Jim Beaux]

YouTube - Large Hadron Rap

If you don't make it all the way thru to the end credits, please note that the background dancers stated that they prefer to remain anonymous.

:nod:

[flombago]

Very enjoyable ... for nerds like myself ... but I bet it doesn't make the top 40 music charts !

[flombago]

oops, skip it

[Jim Beaux]

Seems we have to wait a while.

"After Wednesday's test, engineers will need to get two beams running in opposite directions around the LHC. They can then carry out collisions by smashing them together.

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During winter, the LHC will be shut down, allowing equipment to be fine-tuned for collisions at full energy."

[flombago]

A minor quibble about the pic you posted in #5: In the LHC the 2 hadrons collide with equal speed in opposite directions, hence 2 hardons should be shown in the cartoon. Perhaps the artist knew better but was too homophobic to represent it ? :)