“the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.” - Dr. Arkani-Hamed said concerning worries about the death of the Earth or universe (link)

The first attempt at beam injection is expected to take place at
9:30am (UTC/GMT+2) 10-Sep-2008

Live web-cast link:
http://webcast.cern.ch

More info links:
http://lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam/Welcome.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang
http://www.lhc.ac.uk/latest-news.html
http://lhc-milestones.web.cern.ch/LHC-Milestones/year2008-en.html

QuanticHawk

United States32130 Posts

September 09 2008 14:48 GMT

HOLY SHIT WE"RE GONNA DIE

What time zone and am or pm? Kinda important =]

Chill

Calgary25996 Posts

September 09 2008 14:49 GMT

Can you edit the OP to explain what this is, why it's important, etc. ? Basically to make this thread worthwhile please.

Krohm

Canada1857 Posts

September 09 2008 14:58 GMT

Yeah I'd like to know a time zone as well. Imagine watching the live stream and a black hole did get created. Then it like sucked up some shit, and you seen it all on Camera, then the camera went out. I wonder wtf I'd do in that situation other than think "Oh shit".

Klockan3

Sweden2866 Posts

September 09 2008 14:59 GMT

On September 09 2008 23:48 Hawk wrote:
What time zone and am or pm? Kinda important =]

No, the dragons wont get to you the first hours and I am sure that you have heard about it by then.

QuanticHawk

United States32130 Posts

September 09 2008 15:01 GMT

On September 09 2008 23:58 Krohm wrote:
Yeah I'd like to know a time zone as well. Imagine watching the live stream and a black hole did get created. Then it like sucked up some shit, and you seen it all on Camera, then the camera went out. I wonder wtf I'd do in that situation other than think "Oh shit".

LIQUOR STORE, NOW GOGOOGOOoooooooOoooo

I really hope I'm not in class when this is on, cz I wanna watch it.

Elvin_vn

Vietnam2038 Posts

September 09 2008 15:01 GMT

timezone updated

Nytefish

United Kingdom4282 Posts

September 09 2008 15:12 GMT

Funny how some people are seriously scared of it. ^^

Dagor

Germany64 Posts

September 09 2008 15:12 GMT

Wow thanks. i did not know that they will broadcast this live.
I bet all the particle physics students will tremble in fear over the next years. If CERN just finds the Higgs Boson and nothing else, it will be quite difficult to find something worthwhile to do.

Mhugues

France112 Posts

September 09 2008 15:14 GMT

#10

Its in Switzerland (geneve) so the time zone is obviously CET.

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jello_biafra

United Kingdom6641 Posts

September 09 2008 15:14 GMT

#11

On September 10 2008 00:12 Nytefish wrote:
Funny how some people are seriously scared of it. ^^

Agreed, these people are complete morons.

Chuiu

3470 Posts

September 09 2008 15:15 GMT

#12

You know what comes after the test? RIGHT?

9/11

End of the world.

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I'm of course joking, looking forward to this for a while.

operwolf

United States324 Posts

September 09 2008 15:16 GMT

#13

Nothing is actually going to happen, and if it did it wouldn't be until October 21, when the high energy collisions actually happen. Not sure why everyone is all worked up over them just running a beam through the LHC.

jingXD

United States283 Posts

September 09 2008 15:19 GMT

#14

We should have a liquibet of what will pop out.

How many points would you get if you correctly guess end of the world?

QuanticHawk

United States32130 Posts

September 09 2008 15:24 GMT

#15

On September 10 2008 00:19 jingXD wrote:
We should have a liquibet of what will pop out.

How many points would you get if you correctly guess end of the world?

You get to be a mod in the afterlife