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- MtheoryX, on 07/18/2008, -0/+94I don't know about anyone else, but I'm really excited to see what comes of these experiments.
- poidh, on 07/18/2008, -1/+71I really love this *****. It's like an A Level physics lab multiplied a million times.
- TruckStuff, on 07/18/2008, -1/+70"The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F)..."
Better keep your pants on in there. - postitnote, on 07/18/2008, -2/+51How they're able to keep their hadrons excited in there, I'll never know.
- Senious, on 07/18/2008, -11/+58The vanguard of our understanding.
Truly and amazing machine, which will usher in the next great era of Man kind. - Dumbledorito, on 07/19/2008, -1/+43You KNOW some intern is going to put his tongue on that...
- arcooke, on 07/19/2008, -1/+40http://www.petaimg.com/uploads/1216480201.gif
- cslawren, on 07/18/2008, -2/+387 trillion electron volts?! holy *****.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -9/+43vanguard? what were you born during the enlightenment or something?
- BossKey, on 07/19/2008, -0/+33"It is very cold in space." -Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
- fquednau, on 07/18/2008, -0/+32I just love the numbers they throw around...2.2K Temperature...8 sectors, each with 200 circuits, each commanding up to 154 magnets - superconducting magnets that is, with frakkin' suprafluid helium to cool it all down. It will have to handle very high currents...just a meagre 12000 Amps...all this operating at an energy of five trillion electron-volts...that's a bit of a silly number, it's 8.01 × 10-7 Joule. What does it tell us? Interesting would be in what amount of time this is generated. Anyway, that's one mean machine and I'd love to see it.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -5/+32Global warming solved! Hooray for my ignorance!
- buddyw, on 07/19/2008, -0/+24It seems impressive until you realize that your furnace puts out about 324,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (3.24 x 10^26) heating your home for 1 hour. The eV unit is a very very tiny measurement of energy. 1 watt hour = 2.24694351 × 10^22 electron volts.
- fwertz, on 07/19/2008, -3/+25Scientist: "Now! Switch on the LHC!"
Other Scientist: "It's stuck!?"
Omnipotent Voice: "You must construct additional pylons." - booshack, on 07/19/2008, -2/+23Best case *imaginable* scenario: Higgs boson proof = completion of the standard model ie. merging of quantom mechanics and newton.
Best case scenario whatsoever: Something entirely unimaginable. Never expect the capability of humanity to imagine the world, or that it is even possible to imagine - ever, by any physical being that is a subset of its existense, however greater and more capable than humans. - bwebb, on 07/19/2008, -0/+181.9 kelvin is pretty damn cold. Exactly 1.9 kelvin above the coldest possible temperature. I'm pretty sure that the term 'one of the coldest places in the universe' is pretty accurate in this instance.
- jawdog, on 07/19/2008, -0/+17i think one outcome is actual proof of extra dimensions....
- locojones, on 07/19/2008, -0/+17Well considering that 0 Kelvin is the complete absence of thermal energy, and given the general theory that outer space (presuming you're not in a solar wind or in the light of a star or anything) is approximate 2.4K, then I think it's completely fair to say that cooling the ring down to 1.9K makes it among the coldest places in the universe. Chalking it up to arrogrance undermines the monumental achievement they've made here on Earth and on such a large scale. It's impressive to say the least.
- H4cksaw, on 07/19/2008, -0/+16It probably says something about us as a species that we can build this incredibly complex piece of machinery, and yet when it comes to giving it a name, the best we could come up with involved the word 'large'.
- zephyr42, on 07/19/2008, -0/+16I know how you feel... I get in the mood to do something scientific because the LHC is gawdamn awesome. This mood usually turns into "well i guess I'll just take something apart" /shrug
- Filmore, on 07/19/2008, -2/+17Interestingly enough, it's not just temperature difference that matters. Thermal conductivity maters greatly. You can actually hold a small amount of liquid nitrogen in your hand because it causes a layer of vapor which acts as an insulator (keep it way from hairy parts, hair can impede this effect). And when you're exposed to the vacuum of space, you die of suffocation instead of hypothermia or blood boiling or anything like that.
So you would probably be OK to take off your pants for a very short amount of time, if you wanted to - podwich, on 07/19/2008, -0/+15I greatly prefer the straightforward naming conventions often seen in the scientific disciplines as compared to the ridiculous ones often seen in the political arena.
- Hignaki, on 07/19/2008, -0/+14But never has such a ***** large area been cooled to that temperature. Sure, in the pico-Kelvin range for a tiny, tiny space, but not a circle 3km in diameter.
- JeremyGrieves, on 07/19/2008, -0/+14Yeah there are not enough backyard particle physists in my opinion.
- inactive, on 07/19/2008, -6/+19Nah, my ex is a lot colder.
- inactive, on 07/19/2008, -0/+13lol, appreciate it
- nathanww, on 07/19/2008, -1/+13Or just about scientists
Scientist 1:"I think it should be called the Project for Global Understanding of the Universe"
Scientist 2:"Hmm, maybe. What about the Project for Complete Understanding of Physics"
Scientist 1:"Sounds a little presumptuous"
Scientist 3:"Let's just call it the LHC and go make some black holes" - MaxIsBored, on 07/19/2008, -2/+14Who cares about how cold it is, the experiment is the cool part.
- oderdigg, on 07/19/2008, -0/+12Played HL2 much?
- inactive, on 07/19/2008, -1/+12You don't understand how temperature works.
- happytedium, on 07/19/2008, -1/+12But can it run Crysis?
- Renton, on 07/19/2008, -0/+11Space is not a perfect vacuum. Its estimated that there is one hydrogen molecule per cubic foot. There is also something called Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, which fills all of space and heats it slightly above absolute zero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_back ... - Quake120, on 07/19/2008, -2/+12Hopefully they discover something that will drastically change humanity for the better, like the secret to faster than light travel, time travel, and new renewable energy sources...
Hopefully they don't cause a resonance cascade so we don't have to fend off headcrabs with crowbars...Somebody make sure they don't have an employee named Gordon Freeman! - inactive, on 07/19/2008, -0/+10In space no one can hear you shiver.
Though they can at CERN.
and will then shoo you away from the LHC, you scamp. - dlinkwit27, on 07/19/2008, -0/+10According to current theory, 0 K is the coldest temperature possible, so they can say that with relative certainty.
- chicken101, on 07/19/2008, -0/+10Why send him to France when we can send him to the outer-reaches of space?
- eldudereno, on 07/19/2008, -1/+10I applied by email for a job their as a gardener or cleaner because i digg science but all they have vacancies for is nerds and engineers. surley they need someone to do the vacuuming?
- nextekcarl, on 07/19/2008, -0/+9Wouldn't that be funny if they did? I mean, it's not that unlikely of a name after all. If I were him, I'd wear an orange jumpsuit just for fun the first day it was open.
- Subcranium, on 07/19/2008, -2/+10Meh. When my wife gets mad she has a glare colder than that.
- Hockey13, on 07/19/2008, -0/+8I don't think they're saying it's the first place this has ever happened. The point of the article seems to be that they're quickly approaching the time when the LHC will be up and running.
- ignisatra, on 07/19/2008, -1/+9I'll give you a dollar to lick it.
- MaxIsBored, on 07/19/2008, -1/+9With all that in mind, how many hundred thousand hours does it take for europe to conduct enough electricity to power this thing?
boggle. - Renton, on 07/19/2008, -2/+10Actually, its 93 billion light years across. The expansion rate is faster than light, and still rising.
Science® - podwich, on 07/19/2008, -0/+8This is the large hadron collider, not just a refrigerator. It'll give us interesting data.
- Acglaphotis, on 07/19/2008, -4/+12rule 34 never ceases to get a WTF out of me.
- SilverBack101, on 07/19/2008, -1/+9Looks like we found a new place to put those Polar Bears now. And they can protect the Cern like guard dogs. :D
- violentvinyl, on 07/19/2008, -2/+9Best case scenario?
I'm not one to jump to conclusions, but if things like time travel, teleportation and zero point energy are even possible, this is the most likely first step. - Jeffler, on 07/19/2008, -1/+8If there was no pun intended you would've used another word, *****. (No *****-calling intended. Wait, there was)
- Kral, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7Ronald Regan Veteran's Institute for High Energy Particle Research and Saving Children
- solidcube, on 07/19/2008, -7/+14The universe is a big place. We have no idea how big it is, in fact.
Terms like "one of the coldest places in the universe" and "hottest temperature in the universe" seem like hubris to me. Just saying.
Let's just hope it doesn't start a crown fire. -
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