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Jayson X
Switzerland2431 Posts
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Dosed
Australia47 Posts
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ShAsTa
Belgium2841 Posts
On September 10 2008 16:36 Dosed wrote: You'd think an experiment of this magnitude would warrant servers which could handle everyone in the world connecting up and watching the live stream -_- They put all their money in the HLC  | ||
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b3tty
Canada216 Posts
not dead yet. | ||
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
Although, personally, I don't think anything substantial is going to happen, not even a substantial scientific discovery, other than the "thats really interesting that nothing happened" type of discovery. Also, I kind of doubt that they will be going to full power the first day. You don't just unleash a bunch of protons around kilometers of tubes and expect everything to work. That is, unless they've already been running the thing at lower levels for a while. | ||
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kroko
Finland2136 Posts
Also I didnt die... So I skipped school for nothing. Also I masturbated and took few beers and its only morning here T_T | ||
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MannerGent
United States326 Posts
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0xDEADBEEF
Germany1235 Posts
On September 10 2008 17:02 kroko wrote: I am yet to realize why is this test being done ? To prove that God dosnt exist ? Is it really worth of it :O.. Without that test, there's nothing that could be done to increase our knowledge of particle physics (and whether the current model of the elementary particles is accurate or not (which is kind of a mess, really... heard of the Higgs particle? It's just a *hypothetical* particle, i.e. it wasn't proven to exist yet (in the LHC it might be), it's just assumed that it's there because according to our standard model it should be there). So yeah this is pretty damn important. On a global scale, what good would life be anyway if humanity as a whole didn't make progress in science anymore? I'm glad that we don't live in the Middle Age anymore... :p | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
Then i realized, man, cant care if im dead, so might as well keep living, and now im okay with all this. Science gotta go foward after all. | ||
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VIB
Brazil3567 Posts
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
On September 10 2008 17:15 0xDEADBEEF wrote: Without that test, there's nothing that could be done to increase our knowledge of particle physics (and whether the current model of the elementary particles is accurate or not (which is kind of a mess, really... heard of the Higgs particle? It's just a *hypothetical* particle, i.e. it wasn't proven to exist yet (in the LHC it might be), it's just assumed that it's there because according to our standard model it should be there). So yeah this is pretty damn important. On a global scale, what good would life be anyway if humanity as a whole didn't make progress in science anymore? I'm glad that we don't live in the Middle Age anymore... :p I agree with your point, but its not like theres other areas of science we cant improve, i mean, how long is it supposed to take for particle physics knowledge to start helping me at my home ? from all i know it can create a dragon that will consume it. | ||
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Avius
Iraq1796 Posts
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eStoniaNBoY
Switzerland439 Posts
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Avius
Iraq1796 Posts
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ToT)SiLeNcE(
Germany590 Posts
Regards Bastian | ||
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Dagor
Germany64 Posts
On September 10 2008 18:26 D10 wrote: I agree with your point, but its not like there other areas of science we cant improve, i mean, how long is it supposed to take for particle physics knowledge to start helping me at my home ? from all i know it can create a dragon that will consume it. Well here is the point. The people in CERN do something that is called basic research. That means that they don't exactly know what they will discover and if you don't know that, it is simply impossible to say how long it will take to develop some applications of your research. So, you might say, simply don't do basic research then . But there is actually a problem with that. Imagine two branches of Science, basic research and transitional research. Transitional researchers take the knowledge basic scientists did discover and try to make something useful out of it, but if there is no basic research going on then the poor transitional scientists will have nothing to do and they will be very sad. Surely you don't want that to happen. In summary: basic research is risky and difficult. You don't know if you will discover something useful or even anything at all, but science just cannot work without it. Oh and the End of the World stuff is of course just stupid and wrong. Don't listen to much to the media, reporters are basically idiots with a microphone | ||
Smurg
Canada3819 Posts
Blackholes ftw. | ||
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betaben
681 Posts
http://picasaweb.google.com/graeme.a.stewart/LHCRedButtonDay# looks like they sprayed the detector a bit - that can't be too good. | ||
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
On September 10 2008 20:15 Smurg wrote: I'm in a new dimension right now, it's pretty swell. Blackholes ftw. Teamliquid to conquer new dimension GOGO! | ||
FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
I've been looking around online and all I can find is news articles about how great and important this is, but no explanation of what it is and what it does  | ||
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