Initial particle beam injections were successfully carried out between 8-11th August 2008,the first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for september 10 and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on october 21 2008.
The collider is currently undergoing commissioning while being cooled down to its final operating temperature of approximately 1.9 K (−271.25 °

well everyone.. not long to go then untll a series of small black holes are created here on earth near geneva, then after having a think they will get hungry, team up and consume the earth.. we are all doomed.. oh dear.

 

Would love to watch all these tests. Very interesing subject

 

Agree, some massively beardy and complex stuff but utterly fascinating

 

it is very intresting, even if i dont understand a single thing LOL

 

i have no idea what you lot are on about, but i know what a particle beam accelerator is, it's that thing tha tries to kill the terminatrix on t3 isn't it

 

well over my head, but is the knida stuff my uncle has been involved with fotr years, cant understand a word the fella says

 

Very interesting stuff.
Was this the one that the loonies thought would cunsume the world?

The old urban myth about scientists creating a particle accelerator that nobody dare turn on?

 

what he said;

ive watched 3 documentaries and read plenty of articles on this and am still at the understanding that there bashing some stuff together to see what happens !!

 

They should put Gorden Fking Brown inbetween and see what happens to that fat bastard!!

 

it works on the same technology as the Flux Capacitor

 

Back to the future !!!

 

Woo i love stuff like this. space is amazing. but my mind cant take in some of the stuff...

 

Potential for something properly fucking uncontrollable to happen cant be ignored, but at the same time, im very interested in the results.

 

yeah could be a mass of a distaster. or get it workin great an suck russia out of existance ha ha...

 

and america and china

infact while were at it germany and france

 

ha ha yeah.

 

............... oh i forgot about argentina

i stil havent forgiven them (falklands, maradona)

 

Lol if something does go wrong you'd never know anyway, the closer you get to the singularity the slower time passes, you'll just dissapear in the blink of an eye as will I and everyone else!!

I don't really want it to go forward but I hope everything goes ok!!

 

CERN did an open day a little while back in Geneva where you could see the LHC and a few other projects, presentations etc, looked awesome on the web pages they did about it, if I'd have found out about it sooner I think I'd have gone, it's anticipated to be the only time the LHC will ever be open to the public .

They reckon the possibility of a sustained black hole is very remote, but if it does happen, least you lot won't be here to give them the big "We told you so"

 

i find it mad that they dont really see the results of what they are doing, buy see the reaction from the resulting collision and piece it all together!

some brainy people working there

 

as long as the aren't relegated to tea making duties then that's fine

 

yes, ive been following the project for a while, all i want to know is the results..

 

On the bright side, if it does consume the planet, my local council will sotp harrassing me to fucking recycle....

 

NOT LONG NOW GUYS!!!! GET UR CUSTARD CREAMS.....

ABOVE ALL.... do somthing you wish you had always done...SOON!!!

 

i've always wanted to go to the moon, do you think i'll be able to fulfill my dreams before tomorrow?

 

read alot about this! really interested.

for anyone who doesnt know what they are doing, they are firing particles at eachother at near the speeed of light in order to see what happened in the first few nano seconds of the "Big Bang". as said above they dont know fully what will happen, but can take an educated guess, unfortunately a black hole is also one of the other alternatives...

 

I work with someone who used to work there.
Apparently they showed a screen-shot of some software he'd written on the news. He was dead chuffed about it.

As I understand it, any black holes that could be potentially formed will collapse in on themselves instantaneously anyway so theres no risk whatsoever. (Google 'Hawking Radiation' for the theory)

As with all science though, the proof is in the testing. The fact they've managed to contain the beam is a big achievement. You wouldnt be too popular with the cleaners if it punched a hole in the side and blew one of them big magnets to smithereens.

 

its in a vacuum, so i wouldnt have thought there would be much left if that happened...

 

I dont understand a single thing anyone has really written here. But it does sound interesting. These particles they are firing towards each other at near the speed of light? They are incredibly small yes so if they create a black hole, how big is that likley to be?

Is there any links as to where i can read up on this? Be a nerd for a day

 

a brief overview of what it does
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

bit more detail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

quick description of an accellerator
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/...erator-en.html

more deatil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator

hope that helps

 

Cheers Neil,

Is there any live links on the web for when it gets switched on and the tests begin?

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7459669.stm

if anyone is interested in watching live

 

this is whats gonna happen when they turn it on...