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Cern lab goes 'colder than space'
news.bbc.co.uk — A vast physics experiment built in a tunnel below the French-Swiss border is fast becoming one of the coolest places in the Universe.
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- 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.
- arcooke, on 07/19/2008, -1/+40http://www.petaimg.com/uploads/1216480201.gif
- Acglaphotis, on 07/19/2008, -4/+12rule 34 never ceases to get a WTF out of me.
- atgmac, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4What the *****??
- 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- tpfaff, on 07/19/2008, -13/+2Actually you would explode from the absence of pressure/ lack of "matter."
- kiwifish, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2No, even with enough down-votes to reduce the digg pressure on your comment to those equivalent to deep space, it still will not explode.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=741 - tpfaff, on 07/22/2008, -2/+1That's not what I said....
Filomre
"And when you're exposed to the vacuum of space, you die of suffocation instead of hypothermia or blood boiling or anything like that."
No that's not true, you would explode from the lack of pressure in a vacuum, anyone who has taken a basic chemistry class should know this.
- tpfaff, on 07/19/2008, -13/+2Actually you would explode from the absence of pressure/ lack of "matter."
- 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
- Syphon220, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1this would make the last scene of a james bond awesome.... it writes itself.
- battletrax, on 07/19/2008, -2/+1brr its cold in here, your mother must be blocking the atmosphere
/sorry
- 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.- DuffyDirect, on 07/18/2008, -9/+42vanguard? what were you born during the enlightenment or something?
- bwebb, on 07/19/2008, -9/+7I logged in just to digg your comment. I want to have your babies.
- DuffyDirect, on 07/19/2008, -0/+12lol, appreciate it
- gr00vy, on 07/19/2008, -22/+3Nope. This will simply confirm what we already know. And will provide us with nothing practical in the process, except for some awfully "cool" magnets.
It might be interesting if it provided us nothing new, as that would be unexpected. But this isn't the same as going to space, mars, the nuclear bomb or any of that. It is simply a lot of money going towards something with the practicality of pet rocks.- podwich, on 07/19/2008, -0/+8This is the large hadron collider, not just a refrigerator. It'll give us interesting data.
- DuffyDirect, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6who's us? It's a world-wide conspiracy!!!
- Ramble, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1So I assume you gain nothing from the understanding of particle physics? Bye bye modern medicine, bye bye modern materials, bye bye surfactants and chemicals.
- huhwhathuh, on 07/19/2008, -12/+6The vanguard of our understanding.
Truly and amazing machine, which will usher in the next great era of Man kind.
what's with all these cookie-cutter comments? what's wrong with you people? - grassiness, on 07/19/2008, -7/+4AFAIK:
Deep space has no temperature, because there is no gas, inertia.
Can s.o. explain that?
If deep space would have such a low temperature, we could easily solve many problems with adding superconductors there.- xaxxon, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4it just has larger expanses of empty space. It is very sparse, but it has matter intertwined with it's emptiness. Like all systems, you have to average to get a temperature, but in space you have to average a VERY LARGE volume.
- grungemusic3001, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2according to my physical chemistry professor, deep space has about 1 atom for every cubic meter
- niczar, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3Space does have a very low temperature, however it's you don't freeze instantly in death, because it is, so to speak, an excellent insulator. Just like when you grab a piece of metal at room temperature, it feels colders than a piece of wood -- that's because metal coducts heat much better than wood, and that room temp is below your body temp.
In space, if you wanted to cool something down, first you 'd have to shield it from solar radiation, which is not entirely easy to do, unless you are in a crater at the lunar poles. And then you'd have to wait for the temperature of the object of interest to drop, through only infra red radiation. This can take a long time. - xtraa, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1hey, thanks for your explanation @niczar
I was wondering, too :) - esdi, on 07/21/2008, -0/+0Are you forgetting Cosmic Background radiation?. The last time I checked it had a temperature of about 3K.
- starmanjones, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1>will usher in the next
>great era of Man kind.
i really believe this is true. from understanding physics, matter... energy to mastering them and applying them in the most basic ways. when we can put atoms together in anyway we want... then personal fabricators could build anything we can describe digitally. energy... zero expense. i'm loving it. - hwy9nightkid, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3which will usher in the next great era of Man kind... FOR PORN
- ordig, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3Large Hardon Collider?
- quaunaut, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1hopefully*
- sa9e, on 07/19/2008, -4/+2It might also give birth to black hole that will consume the earth. Wouldn't that be cool!
- DuffyDirect, on 07/18/2008, -9/+42vanguard? what were you born during the enlightenment or something?
- 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.
- 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.- Lavarock, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2doubt it's anything like a hundred thousand hours.
- 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?
- cslawren, on 07/18/2008, -2/+377 trillion electron volts?! holy *****.
- 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.
- Origin415, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6On that scale, its ginormous, 13,700 times its weight in energy. At human scale, its equivalent of 2*10^42 eV. You could heat an electron's house for 7000 years.
- fwertz, on 07/19/2008, -3/+24Scientist: "Now! Switch on the LHC!"
Other Scientist: "It's stuck!?"
Omnipotent Voice: "You must construct additional pylons."- Intervene, on 07/21/2008, -1/+1I said this outloud.
Funny as!
- Intervene, on 07/21/2008, -1/+1I said this outloud.
- thejackamo, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4At full operating load, the LHC operates at 14 TeV, seven times the of power of Fermilab. *****'s gonna be crazy
- 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.
- 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.
- DentThat, on 07/19/2008, -3/+1a black hole won't occur. google it
- hwy9nightkid, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2that only would concern whats going in..
- DentThat, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1what?
- silfiriel, on 07/19/2008, -2/+3it will come out something we won't understand nor care and scientist have been waiting all their life
- DentThat, on 07/19/2008, -3/+1a black hole won't occur. google it
- damian7, on 07/18/2008, -26/+3Finally, a place where Dick Cheney can cool his hearts
- MichaelMerritt, on 07/19/2008, -1/+2Dick Cheney's a Time Lord?
- 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, -4/+1Cheneys knolege only extends to the black hole in bushes head and how to make a lot of bucks by killing people.
- Petrarch1603, on 07/18/2008, -12/+3MIT and Boulder got temperatures colder than deep space awhile ago.
- 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.
- DyceFreak, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5I thought space being a vacuum, had no temperature?
Can anyone explain this "Colder than space" dealie?- NorrisTwithman, on 07/19/2008, -6/+0Put a really expensive thermometer in really deep space and see what it comes up with?
Just because there's no air doesn't mean there's not light and energy. - JeremyGrieves, on 07/19/2008, -1/+1Think it might have to do with molecules transferring hear away, unlike in space where thar be few molecules theres lots here. arr
- 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 ...
- NorrisTwithman, on 07/19/2008, -6/+0Put a really expensive thermometer in really deep space and see what it comes up with?
- calebian, on 07/18/2008, -17/+6This is where they shot Terminator "rise of the machines" it was towards the end, they activated the magnet and the hot chick terminator stuck to it, and then Clair Dains cried out " Why won't you die Bitch!? " haha priceless
- davidkeithjones, on 07/18/2008, -5/+32Global warming solved! Hooray for my ignorance!
- battletrax, on 07/19/2008, -1/+1yea but movie "The day after tommorow" now could become a reality.
- poidh, on 07/18/2008, -1/+70I really love this *****. It's like an A Level physics lab multiplied a million times.
- zephyr42, on 07/19/2008, -0/+15I 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
- JeremyGrieves, on 07/19/2008, -0/+14Yeah there are not enough backyard particle physists in my opinion.
- Ramble, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1It's not as hard as you think. Given enough smoke detectors you could probably build a neutron emitter.
- zephyr42, on 07/19/2008, -0/+15I 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
- BonersMilloy, on 07/18/2008, -16/+2Not that cold
- snoonoo, on 07/18/2008, -20/+3Might as well be a DVD Rewinder
- wildfire, on 07/19/2008, -10/+5So when will we start seeing liquid nitrogen-brewed electron-infused beer?
- tykwondingo, on 07/19/2008, -11/+4Science is so cool... no pun intended.
- Raerth, on 07/19/2008, -3/+8maddox hates you
- PwnisherX, on 07/19/2008, -2/+4As do I.
- Jeffler, on 07/19/2008, -1/+8If there was no pun intended you would've used another word, *****. (No *****-calling intended. Wait, there was)
- DuffyDirect, on 07/19/2008, -1/+7sciencey-people: what are the best-case-scenerio applications from whatever they're experimenting on?
- jawdog, on 07/19/2008, -0/+16i think one outcome is actual proof of extra dimensions....
- MaxIsBored, on 07/19/2008, -9/+3Proof of the big bang theory.
- xaxxon, on 07/19/2008, -2/+3No, you idiot. You don't prove theories. Just a better understanding of what happened further back in time and possibly find some higginity particles to show that some of our theories may be pretty close to the mark.
- saxmaster, on 07/29/2008, -0/+1xaxxon, you're a jerk. And you're right. But you're still a jerk.
- 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.- oderdigg, on 07/19/2008, -0/+12Played HL2 much?
- violentvinyl, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3Too much. I meant free energy extraction from zero point energy to be more specific, but everyone (including me) balks when you start to talk about "free energy".
- 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.- cubbiesx, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3Original question was asking for "applications". Any? Or just proofs?
- DuffyDirect, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5By applications I suppose I mean what technology is seen as being made possible by the expected scientific benefits of the project. Surely the governments of Europe and beyond wouldn't pay for the facilities without some sort of technology to manifest from the science?
- Blandyman, on 07/19/2008, -7/+1Or the government could just be really atheist and want to totally disprove the Judeo-Christian belief system... just sayin'...
- booshack, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7The heads of european governments have a good enough grasp on history to know that technological advancements automatically follow scientific breakthroughs. This has been the case for most technological advancements in the last 100 years. Practical applications are simply implied.
There are some people however, who understand that the knowledge of how our universe works is something far greater in itself than any technological byproduct. Like finding out that alien life exists, some scientific discoveries are so great that their practical purpose becomes a way of uniting humanity.
- DrNemo, on 07/19/2008, -9/+1And the justification for paying taxes to fund this huge piece of *****? I don't care about time travel, I just want to keep my pay.
- InYourHonor, on 07/19/2008, -4/+8Oh man I hope we see those boson particles! I have never been so excited about a large cydrical object
- PintSki, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4is that you homer???
- xaxxon, on 07/19/2008, -4/+1See, I hope we don't. The necessity for something so contrived just doesn't feel right. Kind of like when Einstein made up the whole cosmological constant. It was just pulling something out of your ass to make your observations work better than they deserve to.
- Azerael, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3So you'd prefer we were still drawing stick figures on cave walls?
- fquednau, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1??? Bosons are integer spin particles. Photons are bosons. I think you are seeing plenty of these right now...
- 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.- eddyheart, on 07/19/2008, -1/+5I thought the known universe has been expanding at the speed of light for the past 13.7 billion years? which would make it roughly spherical and 13.7 billion light-years in radius?
- Renton, on 07/19/2008, -2/+9Actually, its 93 billion light years across. The expansion rate is faster than light, and still rising.
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- Renton, on 07/19/2008, -2/+9Actually, its 93 billion light years across. The expansion rate is faster than light, and still rising.
- bwebb, on 07/19/2008, -0/+171.9 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.
- Ramble, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2Technically you can't ever reach 0 Kelvin so it's not exactly 1.9 K above the coldest possible temperature, but you could tend to 0 K, so using limits it is 1.9 K above the coldest possible temperature.
- locojones, on 07/19/2008, -0/+16Well 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.
- gnarnia, on 07/19/2008, -5/+0Still not as cold as the nanokelvin temperatures reached by physicists when creating Bose-Einstein condensation...
- Owwmykneecap, on 07/19/2008, -1/+11You don't understand how temperature works.
- solidcube, on 07/19/2008, -5/+3My point is that there could be an infinite number of places that cold. It wasn't so much to do with temperature as with the idea that we have no idea how large the universe really is (and no, I don't think it stops at the big bang expansion front).
- 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.
- solidcube, on 07/19/2008, -7/+2If you're at a Mcdonalds, isn't it misleading to say that you're at one of the most mcdonaldsy places in the world? The implication I disagreed with is that there are few places that cold.
- dlinkwit27, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5Fair enough, but the mechanics involved with creating a temperature so low, or even the mechanics behind using enough heat to get to a temperature that cold, are so extreme that the chances of them occurring elsewhere in the universe, infinite as it may be, makes it very plausible that there are few other places (places used loosely) that are this temperature or lower, especially this long after the big bang, which is theoretically one of the few times that these temperatures could potentially exist.
It is also interesting to note that the average temperature of non-dark matter in the universe is 2.725 K (see: Planck's Black Body Radiation Law)
An equally interesting article on the possibility of actually reaching 0 K: http://www.chronon.org/articles/absolute_zero.html
- eddyheart, on 07/19/2008, -1/+5I thought the known universe has been expanding at the speed of light for the past 13.7 billion years? which would make it roughly spherical and 13.7 billion light-years in radius?
- MaxIsBored, on 07/19/2008, -2/+14Who cares about how cold it is, the experiment is the cool part.
- IphtashuFitz, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6Heck, just building such a huge device that has the ability to be cooled to such extreme temperatures is pretty damned cool in its own right. Although I'm by no means disagreeing with you!
- eggballs, on 07/19/2008, -6/+18Nah, my ex is a lot colder.
- BossKey, on 07/19/2008, -0/+33"It is very cold in space." -Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
- Xondar, on 07/19/2008, -15/+11Just in case there are idiots on Digg who don't know this (entirely probable:) "The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) - colder than deep space."
0 Kelvin (Absolute Zero) is the coldest anything could ever be. 0 Kelvin is so cold that it's only possible for something to be that cold in theory. The LHC is pretty damn cold.- oderdigg, on 07/19/2008, -5/+10Dugg you down for your BS attitude towards idiots on Digg.
- tnoy, on 07/19/2008, -3/+3Temperatures have been reached in the picoKelvin range now. 1.9K is not all that impressive, and hasn't been for over a decade.
- Hignaki, on 07/19/2008, -0/+13But 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.
- wazzledoozle2, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5~8.6km in diameter*
- 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!- 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.
- 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'.
- 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" - podwich, on 07/19/2008, -0/+14I greatly prefer the straightforward naming conventions often seen in the scientific disciplines as compared to the ridiculous ones often seen in the political arena.
- Kral, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7Ronald Regan Veteran's Institute for High Energy Particle Research and Saving Children
- Dozernotz, on 07/23/2008, -0/+0...Who Can't Read Good But Want To.
- ChayD, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6I think they're reserving Enormous (insert particle name here) Collider for the next project.
- nathanww, on 07/19/2008, -1/+13Or just about scientists
- Dumbledorito, on 07/19/2008, -1/+42You KNOW some intern is going to put his tongue on that...
- IphtashuFitz, on 07/19/2008, -1/+3Either that or do something really stupid like open an emergency relief valve after yelling "watch this!"
- xaxxon, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2Dickless, here, shut down the containment field.
- IphtashuFitz, on 07/19/2008, -1/+3Either that or do something really stupid like open an emergency relief valve after yelling "watch this!"
- eddyheart, on 07/19/2008, -3/+2Mr. Shadow in the 5th Element had a temperature of negative 5,000 degrees.
I always thought that part was funny.- Dumbledorito, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6I cracked up when I saw the little hairy creatures they were knocking out of the luxury ship's landing gear were "Bumble Balls" with fur glued to them.
- helleborus, on 07/19/2008, -1/+2That CMS detector is gorgeous! I would have that on my wall.
- user12345x, on 07/19/2008, -10/+6There's an undigg button. Why in *****'s ***** isn't there an unbury button!?
- S4MF1SHER, on 07/19/2008, -3/+2Cooooool.
- monkeyzhou1979, on 07/19/2008, -7/+0tanke w我喜欢
- Owwmykneecap, on 07/19/2008, -0/+9In space no one can hear you shiver.
Though they can at CERN.
and will then shoo you away from the LHC, you scamp. - 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?
- wazzledoozle2, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4I'm sure they have roombas to do such things
- IphtashuFitz, on 07/19/2008, -6/+2THE END IS NEAR!
- YodaJones, on 07/19/2008, -5/+2It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
- lebatte, on 07/19/2008, -1/+3They can advertise this for the Alps ski resorts - coldest place in the universe.
- Subcranium, on 07/19/2008, -2/+10Meh. When my wife gets mad she has a glare colder than that.
- katie10, on 07/19/2008, -11/+1Cern? What's Cern?
Oh, you meant CERN.
Capitalize, please.- Blandyman, on 07/19/2008, -1/+8Whine, what's whine?
Oh, you meant DRAMATIC FLOW OF TEARS SHOWING YOUR FASCIST SPELLING WAYS.
*****, please.
- Blandyman, on 07/19/2008, -1/+8Whine, what's whine?
- nitrojunky24, on 07/19/2008, -2/+6one question how fast can it cool a beer?
- Blandyman, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5Cold enough to see the blue mountains... nanoseconds before your brain turns to ice.
- harusp3x, on 07/19/2008, -1/+6Does the space cold make your nipples go pointy, Bowie?
- Blandyman, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3No, I'm not Germaine. I'm David Bowie from my 1980 Ziggy Star tour.
- SLockhart, on 07/19/2008, -1/+8Boy I sure hope they know what they're doing.
- infinitiesedge, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3I hope they kill us all. But that's very unlikely. = (
- Azerael, on 07/19/2008, -1/+2Unlike politics, idiots usually cant get very far in scientific careers, so it's fair to say they probably have a pretty good idea what they're doing.
- 360news, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
- Lysergsaure, on 07/19/2008, -3/+1I recently saw Event Horizon so, to be honest, I am not too eager to see that thing on. :p
- ShaneO, on 07/19/2008, -2/+3So what if we find out that the last big bang was caused by some really smart scientists experimenting with a super cooled, super powerful particle accelerator?
- ignisatra, on 07/19/2008, -1/+9I'll give you a dollar to lick it.
- Cloud7654, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2I triple dog dare you to.
- Defuser, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3You've committed a slight breach in etiquette by bypassing the Double Dog Dare.
- Cloud7654, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2I triple dog dare you to.
- oyflaaaayvin, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4Maybe they should use all that cooling technology for something useful...like overclocking a PC or creating the perfectly chilled beverage.
- Defuser, on 07/19/2008, -3/+0"Colder than space" isn't really that hard- not if you're talking about space within our Solar System. There's this quaint belief that solar radiation somehow disappears once you leave the Earth's atmosphere, but it's just not true. One of the reasons they can't do a manned Mars mission is because human beings would fry long before they ever got there.
- Ramble, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1No they wouldn't.
- ketchup176, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1That's cold!
- happytedium, on 07/19/2008, -1/+12But can it run Crysis?
- McShr3dd3r, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1It pwns in Crysis
- jimmick, on 07/19/2008, -8/+1Ok, here's my plan.
I wait till it's dark, and there's no moon.
So it's not just dark, it's REALLY ***** DARK
I sneak into Cern, right.
Oh, and I kill a whole bunch of security guards.
Yeah, then I climb into the particle chamber, and take off all my clothes.
I close the door behind myself and point myself at the door.
Then, here's the kicker, I start masturbating.
And I freeze like TWO ***** SECONDS before I jizz.
Some indeterminably large amount of time later, the scientists are all like, WTF, WHY ISN'T THIS ***** WORKING.
So they turn off the refrigeration and get the ***** in there to see why it isn't working, and when the open the door, I'm there.
And I jizz.
All over them.
Me. - tonygonz, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1> A vast physics experiment built in a tunnel below the French-Swiss border
> is fast becoming one of the coolest places in the Universe.
It may be cool, but it will never be 4 popped collars cool. - robbiedo, on 07/19/2008, -1/+1I am so embarrassed for the US not finishing the Super Conducting Super Collider. It is so frustrating that the Congress was so short sighted. The LHC is a toy compared to the plan for the SSC. Personally, the moment that Congress cut the SSC signified the Decline and Fall of the American Empire.
- Egroh08, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1I find that to be a bit of an exaggeration.
- woolleybear, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1just a tad
- Egroh08, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1I find that to be a bit of an exaggeration.
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