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cem_devecioglu

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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #15 on: 10 September 2008, 14:12:26 »
The news today- Some families are so scared that they dont send their children to school ;D
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #16 on: 10 September 2008, 14:26:32 »
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The news today- Some families are so scared that they dont send their children to school ;D

Some people are a bit weird. My other half said that she felt funny about going to work, in case the world ended she wanted to be with me and our son.

Might have try that excuse for myself tomorrow though "Not coming in the office, I'm too scared the world is going to come to an abrupt end brought about by those crazy guys at CERN"
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #17 on: 10 September 2008, 15:17:06 »
I'm guessing as I'm still alive after my sleep that the world hasn't ended???? ;) ;) ;)
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #18 on: 10 September 2008, 15:18:56 »
i didnt feel a thing either, geez :o
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #19 on: 10 September 2008, 15:58:11 »
Nicked from the BBC:

"Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang.

They have now fired two beams of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The £5bn machine on the Swiss-French border is designed to smash particles together with cataclysmic force.

Scientists hope it will shed light on fundamental questions in physics.

The first - clockwise - beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 BST. The second - anti-clockwise - beam successfully circled the ring after 1400 BST.

Cern has not yet announced when it plans to carry out the first collisions, but these are expected to happen before the machine shuts down for winter."

Basically, it was all a big test and nothing was going to happen today. Now it makes me wonder why the BBC breakfast presenters were harping on about the possible end of the world, muppets.
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #20 on: 10 September 2008, 16:12:07 »
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IIRC this was a opener for Dan Brown in a book called Angels and Demons, where they used the collider to make anti matter that they were to use to blow up Vatican City.

Of course that may have already happened and it all starts tomorrow....again  :-/

Liked that book of his better than the "Da Vinci code" !!!!
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #21 on: 10 September 2008, 16:52:53 »
Do you think CERN have ever calculated their "personal carbon footprint?"  ;D

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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #22 on: 10 September 2008, 16:56:19 »
well the thing is there not going to start crashing the particals into each other for a while yet so just wait dont stand easy just yet lol. just really gets to me why do we have to pay alot more for electric and these guys are using enough to run american for about ten years
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #23 on: 10 September 2008, 17:01:31 »
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well the thing is there not going to start crashing the particals into each other for a while yet so just wait dont stand easy just yet lol. just really gets to me why do we have to pay alot more for electric and these guys are using enough to run american for about ten years


If these guys are right in their theories, there are 2 very possible favourable outcomes, and probably many more ...

Energy from Fusion - far cheaper and less hazardous than from fision (nuclear power)

The ability to "clean up" waste radioactive materials. There is an awful lot of waste nuclear rubbish that no-one knows what to do with, they have already had some success with treating this using high-energy particles, it is hoped that these experiments will  follow on from there.

CERN is not just research for its own sake ... :)
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #24 on: 10 September 2008, 17:05:24 »
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CERN is not just research for its own sake ...

Very true. It is indeed an investment in CO2... and if they hadn't invented html none of us would be here.

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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #25 on: 10 September 2008, 20:44:45 »
Yes, I would like to know what the universe was like one billionth of a second after it began.  

However, I'm inclined to think that the prevailing climate at that time wasn't quite as temperate as that we experience in the UK.  In fact, I would imagine that it was bloody hot.  If someone's going to start  that inferno up again, I'm not convinced I want to be living just 1000Km away from it.  Several million light years would be my choice... :(
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #26 on: 10 September 2008, 21:15:46 »
Sorry to let you know that the world has just ended.

Well, for my 10 year old daughter anyway.

I just had to tell her that there wasn't really a Father Christmas.

My world will end in about 45 minutes when my wife comes home from bingo and finds out what I've done.

We're all doomed!!!!  :'( :'( :'(
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #27 on: 10 September 2008, 21:38:10 »
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Sorry to let you know that the world has just ended.

Well, for my 10 year old daughter anyway.

I just had to tell her that there wasn't really a Father Christmas.

My world will end in about 45 minutes when my wife comes home from bingo and finds out what I've done.

We're all doomed!!!!  :'( :'( :'(
Don't tell me due to a "downsizing" at the North Pole they've had to let him go. That's it in management speak ain't it Budgie?
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #28 on: 10 September 2008, 21:50:33 »
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Sorry to let you know that the world has just ended.

Well, for my 10 year old daughter anyway.

I just had to tell her that there wasn't really a Father Christmas.

My world will end in about 45 minutes when my wife comes home from bingo and finds out what I've done.

We're all doomed!!!!  :'( :'( :'(

Why did you do that? ::) ::) we are wondering how long we can keep it going, she is 8. Only problem is she thinks Santa can bring 'anythink' she asks for and it is looking expensive ::) ::) at a time when we are trying to keep an eye on the pennies :(
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN ends it all...
« Reply #29 on: 10 September 2008, 22:01:48 »
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Sorry to let you know that the world has just ended.

Well, for my 10 year old daughter anyway.

I just had to tell her that there wasn't really a Father Christmas.

My world will end in about 45 minutes when my wife comes home from bingo and finds out what I've done.

We're all doomed!!!!  :'( :'( :'(

Sooner or later :-/
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