Large Hadron Collider

[perkins]

I hope Hellboy comes thru the portal before it closes.

[phoondaddy]

Sounds like something Ron Popeil would sell as a salad spinner.

[uglybogus]

I'm excited, we're planning an end of the world dance party for october!

[ThePaleBird]

"Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse."

[julia green]

haha brilliant julia, i've been saying exactly this to my work colleagues and they've all been saying i'm insane, good to hear there's a fellow beleiver!

yes

[Golden Printing Boy]

2012's gotta be cooler than us being sucked into a black hole, there have to be aliens and stuff. Educate yourself with youtube

[ThePaleBird]

lhc

[poguemahone]

lhc

oh shit. Better run to the store for some lasagne!!!

[standclear]

Hackers break into Large Hadron Collider computer | News - Security - CNET News

Hackers broke into a computer system at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, targeting a system that was "one step away" from a control computer, but otherwise appear to have done no major damage, according to a report on Friday in the British newspaper The Telegraph.

The system that was breached monitors the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment, which will be analyzing data during subatomic particle collisions in the particle accelerator located along the French-Swiss border. Experiments, which began on Wednesday, are designed to help scientists explore particle physics theories...

[steve w]

just got this email from an old college friend.

"Hi folks,

Despite the hype it looks as if the world is still here (for now). No black
holes yet.
Passing protons through an experiment without collisions does not make for an
impressive picture. However when they stop the protons in a collimator just
before the detectors one gets blasted by a spray particles. In the case of the
experiment I work on, CMS, it nearly pegged all our calorimeter channels. Event
display pictures attached. One is the big splat before passing the beam, the
other is a muon from the first passing beam (not very exciting but historical).

Enjoy, and continue living life. It ain't over yet.
-I"