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It's either a picture of this or a picture of ATLAS. ]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/

Hey, the world is still here! In your face, doomsayers!]]>Feb 7th 2010 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
in an alternate universe, the earth has already been destroyed by the LHC]]>Feb 7th 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
I honestly expected the end in 2012 to be caused by the LHC but now they get out of the affair by simply having a power break in 2012.

Now the end is even more uncertain!]]>Feb 7th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
The fact that they're finding an "unexpected" number of particles already is frankly kind of worrying. Gee, what other "unexpected" results might they find as they ramp this thing up?
]]>Feb 7th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
At least we won't even notice when we are gone...]]>Feb 7th 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
In another universe the LHC is a cat.]]>Feb 7th 2010 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/In another universe the LHC is known as the Large Hardon Collider.]]>Feb 8th 2010 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 8th 2010 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/What if we were the 1st fo the parallel universes to try it, and we're the ones that blew everything up?]]>Feb 8th 2010 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 8th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
LHC arm race GO!]]>Feb 8th 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/transformers 3, higgs boson strikes back]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Physicists love unifying models. They've been trying to make one since Newton.

Right now, the higgs boson is literally the only stray link in their all unifying model. They have the quarks and leptops as their contituents of matter. Forces are mediated by the exchange of particles, and the lifetime of these exchange particles dictates the range of the force. So there are gluons for the strong force, the W and Z bosons for the weak force, and photons for coulomb force. The only force that is missing an exchange particle is gravity.

Now if they find this higgs boson, they have the beginnings of a unifying theory for mass, energy, and force. Basically this would be like e=mc^2 or Quantum Physics for the 21st century. ]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GSP/SEM0L6OVGJE_0.html]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
Unfortunately that theory has had little to no peer review. There have been higgless models in the past. But, a Higgless model doesn't really sit well with the particle physics community. Thus the general conception in the community is that it exists, it just hasn't been found yet. ]]>Feb 7th 2010 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Thanks for the link to the article. Chuckled at mention of the "London moment"... maybe they can use that for a tourism promotion video, lol.

If I read the article correctly, it appears that they were able to generate some sort of a "strong" gravitational field. I wonder if it's possible to "reverse" it and make a flying saucer... or use the effect to produce artificial gravity in space...]]>Feb 7th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/4 PARTICLES!?
Well "La De Da" Mr. private school. My high school only had 3 particles and we got by just fine.]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/No positrons or anti-protons? Damn, Asimov and other sci-fri writers would be turning in their graves!]]>Feb 7th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/I see what you did there....]]>Feb 7th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/maybe you should visit the large hardon collider]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/I call homo >.>]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/What? You never have hadrons when you get physical?
I feel so sorry for your (lab) partner. ]]>Feb 7th 2010 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/]]>Feb 7th 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
Will ... i think i have a lot of readings ahead, the simple high school image of spherical atoms composed of electrons circulate nucleus (protons and neutrons) are no longer valid.]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
those weren't even valid when you learned them]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
hmm...

;)]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
What does stuff like this give to me, the consumer? or what does this do for humanity?]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
This does not have anything to do with the typical consumer. Because this is pure science and has nothing to do with production of mass market equipments. However, if the theory is established, then in some not so distant future, it will surely trickle down to some technology for the masses.

That has been the case with all of science, all the time. Because this is not Steve Jobs showing off iPad, but much much bigger than that.]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/I am only replying so I can be updated when someone answers your question. I want to know the same thing. ]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
The person who invented the laser was working at MIT, and had his grant request denied on the base that "it's a useless experiment" by the Dean at that time. If he didn't continue following through we'd still be using VHS tapes to lug around our videos.]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
It's give us a better understanding of the subatomic world and Quantum mechanics which will help us in many fields including nano technology.

The closet thing i can think of .... that LHC will help us in consumer electronics area, is to help us in resolving quantum tunneling issue once CPU's reaches a half-pitch of 11nm or less. ]]>Feb 7th 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
for the consumer?

nothing, at least not now, for humanity? Knowledge that will be shared among all countries freely (minus the billions it cost initially of course..).

think of this, if they can learn enough to control things like mass, we will be able to go into deep space in a matter of years, and not billions of years per journey!]]>Feb 7th 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/
Do you think all of the technology we have today just came out of nowhere? No, it came from ideas made possible by our understanding of physics?]]>Feb 7th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-collisio/Feb 7th 2010 1:19PM