Members Chrisjd Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080907/ap_on_re_eu/big_bang_machine Crazy {censored}, incredibly fascinating and a little spooky at the same time.. What are your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marshredder Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 Its nothing new, people dont get it, its not being fired up for the first time! They've been shooting this thing for years, all they have done is add a new type of detector into the ring. Its VERY exciting. If it does what they think it will, it will lead to a cure for cancer, global warming and safe disposal of nuclear waste for a start. It will also open up the doors into Time Travel research. If we ever come up with a working time machine, wednesday will be the furthest back we will be able to travel if modern theories are correct. This is the most exciting moment in science since the moon landing, and the beginning of the future of science all for same bargain price as 9 days in Iraq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OverDriven Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 Already another thread on this. I'll say the same thing here...the people who are scared are the ones who are completely uneducated about the topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chrisjd Posted September 8, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 Its nothing new, people dont get it, its not being fired up for the first time! They've been shooting this thing for years, all they have done is add a new type of detector into the ring. Its VERY exciting. If it does what they think it will, it will lead to a cure for cancer, global warming and safe disposal of nuclear waste for a start. It will also open up the doors into Time Travel research. If we ever come up with a working time machine, wednesday will be the furthest back we will be able to travel if modern theories are correct. This is the most exciting moment in science since the moon landing, and the beginning of the future of science all for same bargain price as 9 days in Iraq Yes, but that new detector is a pretty big thing it seems.Ok, so I need to live until at least Wednesday.Cure for cancer, how are they related? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marshredder Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 Yes, but that new detector is a pretty big thing it seems.Ok, so I need to live until at least Wednesday.Cure for cancer, how are they related? The research will give a new type of radioactice beam that does not affect healthy cells, just goes straight to the cancer and kills it straight off. All modern forms of cancer treatment involve killing heathy cells as well, which is why the side affects are so bad. and yeah the ATLAS detector is a big thing, interestingly it will record enough information every second to fill up 100,000 CD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 3red Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 If we ever come up with a working time machine, wednesday will be the furthest back we will be able to travel if modern theories are correct. we'll know on wednesday if modern theories are correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members yabba Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 Its nothing new, people dont get it, its not being fired up for the first time! They've been shooting this thing for years, all they have done is add a new type of detector into the ring. they've done a couple test injections earlier this year, but they've yet to do a full run. link to something with details about the cancer treatment thing? how would that work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marshredder Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 we'll know on wednesday if modern theories are correct True. its just the whole "the particle impacts will cause the world to implode." Its like these guys forget that CERN has been crashing particles at this power for the last decade.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Big Hair Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 so on Wednesday when I am looking at a big massive swirling black tornado-esque hole in the sky I will make sure I log onto HCAF to ask wtf happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marshredder Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 Researcher Paul Collier said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OverDriven Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 Guys...we won't know {censored} on Wednesday. That is just the first day they will be powering it up. It will be months before they go up to full power, and years before the experiments are complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TheEsupremacy Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 How many watts? Can you use it in a bedroom? 6L6 based? Can you gig with it? I bet it's another 5150 clone. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 3red Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 so on Wednesday when I am looking at a big massive swirling black tornado-esque hole in the sky I will make sure I log onto HCAF to ask wtf happened? harmony central will be waiving the size and format limitations for attachments on wednesday so you could upload your mind bitmap for later restoral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hapless Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 Oh no! The Vortigaunts are coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brick Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 so on Wednesday when I am looking at a big massive swirling black tornado-esque hole in the sky I will make sure I log onto HCAF to ask wtf happened? No do this. Hop in black hole, hop back out, then post on HCAF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ultron Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 wouldn't we kinda know already if the time-travel thing is working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Efekkt Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 wouldn't we kinda know already if the time-travel thing is working? That's not how it works...I think....I don't know.... I'm from the future bitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marshredder Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 That's not how it works...I think....I don't know....I'm from the future bitch. Leon Czolgosz, assassin of William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was electrocuted for his crime on October 29, 1901, at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York. Among the personal effects found in his cell was a U.S. quarter stamped with the date 2218. The face in profile on said quarter was not George Washington, but rather a face which has yet to be identified. True story apparently. Anyway, dont be worried about black holes. The worst case scenario is that in 10 million years the stable black hole will weigh a tonne and just be sitting there. Be worried about the possibilities of this thing creating an active strangelet. Seriously, MUCH more worrying than a black hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kinggeoff Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 wouldn't we kinda know already if the time-travel thing is working? we wouldnt know, apparently (according to popular theories these days) until the instant time travel is discovered/created/etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Chrisjd Posted September 8, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 Be worried about the possibilities of this thing creating an active strangelet.Seriously, MUCH more worrying than a black hole. What is an active stranglet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marshredder Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 What is an active stranglet. If a strangelet comes in contact with a lump of ordinary matter such as Earth, it could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter. This "ice-nine" disaster scenario is as follows: one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, producing a larger, more stable strangelet, which in turn hits another nucleus, catalyzing its conversion to strange matter. In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot, large lump of strange matter. This is not a concern for strangelets in cosmic rays because they are produced far from Earth and have had time to decay to their ground state, which is predicted by most models to be positively charged, so they are electrostatically repelled by nuclei, and would rarely merge with them. But high-energy collisions could produce negatively charged strangelet states which live long enough to interact with the nuclei of ordinary matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ultron Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 If a strangelet comes in contact with a lump of ordinary matter such as Earth, it could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter. This "ice-nine" disaster scenario is as follows: one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, producing a larger, more stable strangelet, which in turn hits another nucleus, catalyzing its conversion to strange matter. In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot, large lump of strange matter.This is not a concern for strangelets in cosmic rays because they are produced far from Earth and have had time to decay to their ground state, which is predicted by most models to be positively charged, so they are electrostatically repelled by nuclei, and would rarely merge with them. But high-energy collisions could produce negatively charged strangelet states which live long enough to interact with the nuclei of ordinary matter. Have they calc'd the odds of this? Is it possible to figure odds on something like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 What is an active stranglet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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