LHCountdown.com has gone down

Originally posted by crawgator406
reply to post by Rapacity

 

can someone please tell me what are they trying to gain by slamming two protons into each other is it benificiary for any purpose.

Yeh. iv read that they are trying to recreate what happened right after the big bang. there trying to find the main elements/particals of the universe. or something like that

i'm all for the lhc experiment but i think i would become extremely concerned should they delay the experiment by one day, making it happen on sep 11th. that would just be too creepy!

link is notworking from Bulgaria either - it's seems they changed their DNS server adress and that's the reason - why, I don't know -/

reply to post by ben420


trouble is.
it is
at least we got past 08-08-08 @8:08 pm
thats the main thing
we can not stop what we have no control of

Don't mean to burst your bubble boys but the first test fire of the LHC will not occur until October 21, 2008. That's 2 more months mateys. The protot beam will first be inserted I think sometime this month or whenever you guys were saying maybe today tomorrow etc but the actual first test run and collision will not occur for another 2 months.

Originally posted by Rook1545

Originally posted by blupblup
I looked it up and it says....

"The initial particle beams are due for injection in August 2008 the first attempt to circulate beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008"

So then October is the official kiss your a** goodbye date then? I am getting more confused all the time on this.

Yes 10/21/08 will be the "open a worm-hole to another dimension and destroy the earth" day most likely. Or rather oct 21 is when the official unveiling is and the first collisions will take place "after that" as it says so that doesn't necessarily mean right the same day but I suppose whenever the scientists are all ready and set and I guess at their whim so I would assume sometime very soon after oct 21,2008.

A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - reaches a key milestone this weekend ahead of an official start-up on 10 September.

link

this might be the reason why the countdown doesn't work.

maybe it got sucked up by a blackhole??? we're all doomed!!

so....i guess the theme song for this event would be

REM - Its the end of the world as we know it.



just some of the side effects that might occur

micro black hole

strangelet

false vacuum

magnetic monopole

Originally posted by ghostryder21
so....i guess the theme song for this event would be

REM - Its the end of the world as we know it.



just some of the side effects that might occur

micro black hole

strangelet

false vacuum

magnetic monopole

I didn't realize scientists had hypothesized so many new and novel ways to totally kill ourselves and everything else. Brilliant!

Edited to add: proves one thing, God was/is neither a scientist nor human. Imagine: and God spake to Noah: "And ye shall build an Ark and escape for I am to make the Earth and all in this False Vacuum into a Strangelet with my God Particle Super Bashing Ray machine..." God made the Earth but science creates ever better ways to catch him out on the infallibility clause.

[edit on 8/8/08 by Rapacity]

Found this link which has some pretty awesome photos:
www.boston.com...

as for the countdown, no idea.
i guess we'll know when the planet turns into a vaccum cleaner, can't miss that.

Cool, my birthday is 10/20 maybe I can really go out with a bang!

The activation and use of this is a peek into the universe and it's creation via big bang all in a neat little controlled package.

But...please don't harm the poor Haldrons

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On that countdown it says the first beam will be september 10th...

if they prolong it one more day it will be sept 11th, and if it blows up like an atom bomb, bush might bomb iraq or some # thinkin it was them right?

reply to post by Rapacity


i live in India and i also couldn't access the LHC page. i tried using google but surprisingly the page was missing.i believe they've scrapped the website

atre

reply to post by Shamanator


Why? CERN is one of the world's most prestigious scientific institutions. The Manhattan Project was an American affair, and before they detonated the first nuke they didn't know whether or not the fission reaction would ever stop, or if the dominoes would just keep tipping until the whole planet was a fireball. So it being run by y'all across the water wouldn't fill me with any more confidence.

That said, I am a little edgy over the leap of faith we're taking here, nonetheless... But I just wanted to point out that saying it'd be safer if it was American is a little odd.

PS; Before I get accused of being an anti-American Europhile or whatnot, I'm Irish. So I'm not really European, and I'm not really pro-American. Neutral ground.

reply to post by jaden_x


or would you?

would you actually realize your being sucked into a black hole?

The report, 'Review of the Safety of LHC Collisions', published in IOP Publishing's Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, proves that if particle collisions at the LHC had the power to destroy the Earth, we would never have been given the chance to exist, because regular interactions with more energetic cosmic rays would already have destroyed the Earth or other astronomical bodies.

So cut the #.

Lets just hope the french-portion of the collider ring doesn't decide to go on strike on the day

reply to post by Shamanator


Realy, you would feel better if this were an American project? im glad its not, and im an American (unfortunately)

reply to post by Shamanator


If it was an American Project we would have to be worried far more...