Dave aka Mad Yum

A experiment in French/Swiss border could finish the world

The machine is 17 miles long and cost 4.4 billion pounds to create


Link
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html


So do as you please, the worlds coming to a end

dunketh

Can I use this as an excuse when caught looting currys?

"Err.. the world was gonna end yr honour..."

SteveH

We'll be fine.
If i'm wrong, then er....

Tis a bit worrying cos they have NO idea what will actually happen. At least if they find the Higgs-Boson, Steven Hawking will be Ł50 better off

C4llyT

" This latest machine, however, has attracted such attention because it is the largest and most powerful ever constructed. Built 300ft beneath the French Swiss border, it will fire atomic particles around its 17 mile circumference, 11,245 times every second before smashing them headlong into each other.

The result will, for a split second, replicate the conditions that existed in the moments immediately after the birth of the universe, known as the Big Bang. In a space a billion times smaller than a speck of dust, the collisions will create temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the centre of the sun. "


Anyone want to attempt to work out how many mph they'll be travelling at?

Dave aka Mad Yum

You have all be warned, do as you please before its too late

Kverna

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Where's my lubrication!?!?

Twellsie

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2162305548 mph

collierm

Impressive bit of kit the LHC. Speed is just shy of the speed of light I think I remember reading somewhere.

Can you imagine some dumb nugget touching the pipes just after they collide, might be a tad warm

Chip

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Im confident the results are going to be underwhelming.

SteveH

I read that they would be accellerated up to 99.99999% of the speed of light

And chip, I err to agree, I dont think anything major will happen.

luke89

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hope it is the end lol im out of work as off friday lol, on another note i see this thing on tv when they were making it , looks amazing but cant see it workin lol

dunketh

Depends on your point of view.

Simulating the big bang is probably the stuff of dreams for the physicists involved. I'm sure many will wet their pants with excitement.

For me, as long as it doesn't affect the price of petrol I don't really care.

Jimboxr4x4

Don't suppose it will have much impact on the Ford tuning scene to be honest.

dojj

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i've just bid on something on ebay that won't finish until late evening on the 10th, will ibe reported as a non payer? i'd hate to lose my record in the afterlife

SiZT

not quite 99.999% of the speed of light unfortunately which is 3x10^8 m/s or 671,112,000 mph

collierm

The speed of light in the vacuum of free space is an important physical constant usually denoted by the letter c.[1] It is the speed of all electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, in free space. It is the speed of anything having zero rest mass.[2] The SI metre is defined such that the speed of light in a vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 metres per second[3] The speed of light can be assigned a definite numerical value because the fundamental SI unit of length, the metre, has been defined since October 21, 1983, as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second; in other words, any increase in the measurement precision of the speed of light would reduce the uncertainty in practical realizations of the metre but would not alter the numerical value of c. The approximate value of 3×108 m/s is commonly used in rough estimates (the error is 0.07%). In imperial units, the speed of light is about 670,616,629.4 miles per hour or 983,571,056.4 feet per second (roughly one foot per nanosecond), which is about 186,282.397 miles per second.

Taken from Wikipedia.

Turbosystems

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I'll sleep better tonight now i know roflol

dojj

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so that means that light on the surface of teh planet moves slower than it does in space, therefore not making it a constant, therefore ruining everything everyone has ever learnt in the past years and making time travel a possibility?

Nash_mr2

someones gonna die when they turn this thing on lol

i reckon it will leave a large doughnut shaped crator in the earth, hopefully wiping out France and Switzerland

dojj

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wouldn't it be much easier to say a metre is about this long<.................> and hold your arms out?

richard_syko

Theres my wank sorted for tonight then

collierm

Ha ha ha ha

Wanking over a pipe!!

PGT

thats all very well but unless you can accurately measure how long "one second" is then your figures will be out.

it is .......

9 billion, one hundred and ninety two million, six hundred and thirty one thousand, seven hundred and seventy X the hyperfine transition level period of caesium 133

Rick Astley

Not as good as wanking into a pipe... Well thats what I call her anyway.

Kverna

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Best responses ever! Still laughing