weeeeeee.. if we all die, its been interesting

if my monitor so much as jiggles those scientists are gonna have a lawsuit on their hands

as in they are powering it up not colliding stuff tho right?

I love it when Jim's "monitor" jiggles.

I couldn't find any countdown or any other reference to this at the LHC homepage. Are you sure its at midnight Aus EST?

I swear a week doesn't go past with someone saying it's about to turn on, only to find out they're just turning on the cooling in one section.

jiggle it
just a little bit

well the lhcountdown.com site says 17 minutes.... and i found a news article saying "LHC being turned on in less than 20 hours"... can anyone confirm ?

its a few years away yet from operating at maximum capacity, i think they said 2012

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080805/115771418.html

Large Hadron Collider to be launched Oct. 21 - Russian scientist

thats when it will be unveiled.. but they are turning it on now.. first particles go in sometime this month..

The initial particle beams are due for injection this month and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.

yeah but I'm not confident that even the unveiling has been properly thought through in terms of the safety of the rest of us who occupy this planet

I know I definitely feel like the whole project was just thrown together really haphazardly with barely any planning or thoughts to anyone's safety.

if we all die i hate u all

but by all accounts that isn't gonna happen in 10 mins

when they start making the black holes then yeah

the only blackholes its gonna make are those little cute ones that dissapear after a millionth of a second.

aint no supermassive biatch gonna be all up in here

well that was boring.. needed more explosions/earthquakes. gnite

At least we're all prepared on what to do in the event of a resonance cascade.

Damn I was looking forward to mass becoming infinite.

wtf are you lot on about?

its a few years away yet from operating at maximum capacity, i think they said 2012

I loled

Press release from CERN

2012? omg mayan calender, prophesy, etc etc

From wikipedia summarising the press release two posts up:

The collider is currently undergoing commissioning while being cooled down to its final operating temperature of approximately 1.9 K (−271.25 °C). The initial particle beams are due for injection in August 2008,[2] the first attempt to circulate beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008,[3] and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.[4]

So yeah you guys are idiots. It's a gradual process of getting the thing up and running at increasing energy .. it's not like "BAM we've turned it on, start running bitches!".

At what stage of this process is it the energy high enough to actually be something to worry about? Oh that's right, none of us know because we aren't f***ing particle physicists. End of story.

Also the lhcountdown.com guys should just give up. They have no idea with their 'count-down'.

gawd you fail at life parabol
epic

Epic? You must get aroused easily.

It was merely a post exercising my right to call people idiots because I can. I think I used up my quota for the day though.

I must admit, I do get aroused pretty easily

If it's so safe then why did they build it like 100km under the surface.

100km's under the surface @#($^!@($!@$_ wholey s*** these particle fizzycysts can build stuff in molten magma :p~~ i think you mighta meant 100metres & the reason is obvious to anyone with an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology.

Oh. I swear the news articles said 100km - I remember thinking 'fuk thats a bit odd'. :)

I know I definitely feel like the whole project was just thrown together really haphazardly with barely any planning or thoughts to anyone's safety.

They started putting the project together in the 80's. How is over 20 years of planning and analysis "haphazard"?

*boggle*

They started putting the project together in the 80's. How is over 20 years of planning and analysis "haphazard"?

Oh dear.

Maybe 20 years is enough for you, but its not enough for me, and any forward thinking society. It took the Earth 6000 years to get where it is today and I don't want it blown away by a measly 20 years of research by these so-called scientists.

Did... did I just get trolled by Trog?

of all the ways to go, you gotta admit being consumed by an evergrowing black hole is pretty cool. I would be happy with that death

im all for it - at least it gives us something to talk about

your brain will melt before you get to appreciate the hole

So are we all dead or alive? I can't tell

am i dead yet ?

i wouldnt care if we all died tbh

if the LHC killed just me, or maybe me and a couple other dudes, id be f***ing pissed. But if we're all in the same boat then f*** it, bring it on

The full powering up of the LHC and collision of particles is still not for a while....

Did... did I just get trolled by Trog?

I think we need a new term for that, how about you got trogged?

wait a sec can you run that by us again hyperslide?

The only reason the LHC was delayed was so that it would clear up all the polution for the opening ceremony.

I think it gets turned on at 5.30pm, Australian time?

f*** GUYS I THINK IT GETS TURNED ON TODAY

Another revival... Trogdor u should put a revival hard code ban in as per my other revival post suggestion.

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No paveway, I am pretty sure it gets turned on today.

Is someone getting a hardon today?

if i hear a black hole forming i am just gonna drive out of the garage and do donuts

its gonna be so SICK

max(e) doughies?

outside lidcombe station?

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/3469/maxdoeysol7rw9.gif

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its a few years away yet from operating at maximum capacity, i think they said 2012

2012! Mayan Calender ends on Dec 31st 2012. It will be the end of the world!

if i died right now i'd be happy. :)

omg, nothing is gonna happen and these scientists won't discover what they are looking for.. They may learn about something else, but not what their intentions are to find out...

i just felt a low rumble..

It may have been my stereo, but i think the world is ending tbh.

Holy s***, does anyone else suddenly feel 10000% heavier than earlier today? This is a really weird sensation.

omg, nothing is gonna happen and these scientists won't discover what they are looking for.. They may learn about something else, but not what their intentions are to find out...

is this from the old or new testament?

Extract from this article ..........

http://thefutureofthings.com/news/1301/large-hadron-collider-switches-on.html

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN was turned on Today, Wednesday September 11th. The event put to rest the rumors regarding the supposed dangers it poses, and hopefully reveal some well kept secrets of particle physics. The first beams circulated through the 27 kilometers collider, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled on 21 October 2008.

" the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled on 21 October 2008." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so we have to wait till then :)

http://www.gronks.com/qgl/HadronColliderResults.jpg

is that real ticman?

is this from the old or new testament?

I didn't mean it in a religious way...

it sure sounded like it!

Due to my ignorance and lack of scientific knowledge, I just can't begin to comprehend how the earth came about and therefore I believe it's gonna be one of those unsolved mysteries. One question that supports how I feel about this is always "and what was before that".. Nothing to do with religion, odd I know.. I just simply don't believe they will discover how we exist.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move

Well I hope people still think it was a bad idea cause we're about to blow it up.

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I just can't begin to comprehend how the earth came about and therefore I believe it's gonna be one of those unsolved mysteries

yeh and this position came through quite clearly in your earlier post - thus my response. I wasn't suggesting actual biblical basis for your comment, I was just likening it's ignorance to religious dogma

The Earth was carried in by a stalk just like babies. Didn't you know?

It's simple really, the Universe was created by god using the Hardron collider. What else do you need for proof. I bet he built it in 6 days not 10 years too.

he probably even did it on a treadmill too

like I said, it had nothing to do with religion.. It was my opinion from a scientific perspective.

is that real ticman?

It's on the internet jim, of course it's real!@%@!

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

it sounds totally unscientific martz!

too bad.

you'll get over it.

like a bump in the road

lol kat

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

another..

the LHC actually created earth, warped time back millions of years to start fresh, we keep repeating this cycle we just don't know it.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x56/maxe1/PBF111-Reset.jpg

Camera

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

Haha awesome. Hey at least we'll be able to find out time really slows down to nothing at the event horizon if we make one...