Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that most epic triumph of human engineering and physics research has finally taken place, and
strangely enough our planet's still in one piece too. The search for the
Higgs boson particle resumed yesterday, somewhere under the Franco-Swiss border, with the CERN research team successfully executing what the
LHC was built to do -- accelerating proton beams to nearly the speed of light, then filming the wreckage as they crash into each other. Having encountered a number of
bumps in the road, the researchers have had to significantly
scale down the energy at which their early collisions will take place, with the very first ones said to have happened at 900 billion electron volts. Still, plans are afoot for an imminent shift up to 1.2 trillion electron volts (TeV), which would be the highest energy level any particle accelerator has achieved yet, before a ramp up to 7 TeV over the coming year if all goes well.
posted November 24th 2009 4:42AM
@figshta wrong thread. weird.
@mdfirefighter haha i just looked it up. If i understand correctly anything that achieves the speed of light turns into light, and that would defeat the purpose of the hadron because light particles have no mass so if the protons got to light speed nothing would happen when they collide.
@mdfirefighter
Bahaha exactly, even if he is trolling you response was still hilarious!
@thebomb
I don't know what your information resource is, but delete that link ASAP.
G.W.Bush foundation of knowledge?
There was a slight issue with some people getting stuck in a temporal loop, don't ignore that
There was a slight issue with some people getting stuck in a temporal loop, don't ignore that.
i can't wait til they start testing hyperdrive theory soon..einstein we
@hexideciml
All those nerds bought sex that night fer sure.
One Point Two Trilli Volts?!
@Charbax Sounds like transforming matter to me... no really creating it... just say'in
@Charbax Sounds more like transforming matter to me... I mean as apposed to creating it... just say'n
still looking to find out how somthing can come from nothing...
@Charbax The real question is, should we?
@Charbax I think hollywood has shown us in very simplistic terms, that time travel is a BAD idea, hehehehe
"then filming the wreckage as they crash into each other"
It's take a physicist to do that? Obviously they haven't seen Spike TV's cop chase show...
I'm sure the scientist at Black Mesa were also happy when they were doing the very early stages to their portal travel experiments...
I bet the insurance excess on that is pretty expensive!
Maybe this is what's causing the distortion in the Engadget comment system?
Was it bring your daughter to work day?
@Floppy No, it was bring a female you know to work day, that's why there is only one in the room.
@Floppy Helium isn't exactly a neurotoxin. But it's definitely not something you want to flood the facility with...
If they are testing protonic relationships, why are they making them bang?
Date: December 21st, 2012. Time: 10am. "Here comes the big colli.........." .... ... .. .
Good show!!! If you haven't already checked it out, Wikipedia has a great entry for this project. I wonder how long before they both get a good look at the aftermath of the first collision as well as start ramping up the power?
Does the geek community have to pay so much to find a good bang?
Am I the only one that was hoping for a Fallout esque apocalypse? *sigh* I guess there's still 68 years to hope.
Nah, Half-Life is more my speed.
(i think half-life is a pretty cool guy. eh kills aliens and marines and doesn't afraid of anything )
These comments suck.
OR.
we were already sucked in and we survived.
I dare someone else to mention 2012 - because it clearly hasn't been used enough.
Call me when they turn it up to 11.
i think higgs is a pretty cool guy. eh destroys earth and doesn't afraid of anything
they re-started this thing last month.