web.mit.edu— Initial results from high-energy proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider offer first glimpse of physics at new energy frontier.
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Maybe Tolkein was talking about the ring that the LHC forms.The Lord of the Rings:One Ring to rule them all... One by one, the Free Lands of Middle-Earth fell to the power of the Ring.Think about it.
I'm sorry, but I don't even want to begin to comment on your post. I know you're not a "smart people", but your analogy gained one thumbs up, that's what disturbs me ...
That has nothing to do with his comment...The guy said nothing about the LHC's worth, just that he doesn't think the higgs exists. Frankly, I hope he's right. It'd make for a really interesting next 10 or more years in the physics community if it isn't found.The standard model works, but it looks like s**t. Something more elegant will probably come along.
Actually ink, it would have a fairly devastating effect in short order. It would fall to the center of the earth, encountering no friction because the singularity doesn't exist at the event horizon and everything at the event horizon is sucked in. Since there's no friction, it would oscillate indefinitely constantly changing it's path through the earth due to the Coriolis effect; every time it would accrete more matter than last time through.I don't know exactly how long it would take, but it would be a much shorter time than the billions of years you're stating.
cockadoodlediggFeb 5, 2010
Maybe Tolkein was talking about the ring that the LHC forms.The Lord of the Rings:One Ring to rule them all... One by one, the Free Lands of Middle-Earth fell to the power of the Ring.Think about it.
chipxsdFeb 5, 2010
I'm sorry, but I don't even want to begin to comment on your post. I know you're not a "smart people", but your analogy gained one thumbs up, that's what disturbs me ...
quisquisFeb 6, 2010
That has nothing to do with his comment...The guy said nothing about the LHC's worth, just that he doesn't think the higgs exists. Frankly, I hope he's right. It'd make for a really interesting next 10 or more years in the physics community if it isn't found.The standard model works, but it looks like s**t. Something more elegant will probably come along.
seronisFeb 6, 2010
You dont know how badly i want that to be the actual first full powered run JUST to piss people off.
Closed AccountFeb 6, 2010
Calm down. Its just a freaking metaphor.
quisquisFeb 8, 2010
Actually ink, it would have a fairly devastating effect in short order. It would fall to the center of the earth, encountering no friction because the singularity doesn't exist at the event horizon and everything at the event horizon is sucked in. Since there's no friction, it would oscillate indefinitely constantly changing it's path through the earth due to the Coriolis effect; every time it would accrete more matter than last time through.I don't know exactly how long it would take, but it would be a much shorter time than the billions of years you're stating.