cottlestonpie said:

The Large Hadron Colider is a gigantic particle accelerater that would move particles at 99.99% percent the speed of light.  These coliisions will be captured and photographed on a giant expensive camera. The hope is that they can recreate the conditions that started the big bang and find the that atoms or particles that actually turn energy into matter. They are trying to fill in the blanks on a lot of theories we have about the begining of the universe.  Most scientist are confident that a real break through will occur in regards to adavancement in scientific knowledge or what have you.  This is one of the biggest and most expensive scientific expieriments ever created costing billions of dollars and 20 years to build.  It is a huge collabritive efforft front numerous countries and universities.  Its going to be a big jump into the unknown and they are turning in on in about ten days.  Some people think that under these conditions they can create mini black holes which in theories should evaoprate instantly.  But there is a one in a trillion chance that this thing could detroy the earth.

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cottlestonpie said:

Shit, the could open up a portal to a new dimension and the godam reptillians could come flying out. 

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cottlestonpie said:

Shit, the could open up a portal to a new dimension and the godam reptillians could come flying out.  In reality it will probably be nothing but you never know.

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LOL, it will be like Half-Life!

Yeah, I seem to remember reading that scientists generally agree that the LHC probably won't destroy the world.

(phew! Thank god those scientists have everything under control and understand statistics, as well as hypothetical new paradigms, so much better then us cannon fodder)

cottlestonpie said:

its really gonna take them 4 or 5 months to reach that speed?

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Gumby said:

Ohhh jebus. They fire it up at 12AM (EST) tonight.

Thats just turning it on though, right, not colliding the particles?

I wonder when the first collision will take place? I've read "sometime before the end of the year." That tells me nothing. Nothing I say! I need to know when the blackhole will be created, damnit!

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The collider is currently undergoing commissioning while being cooled down to its final operating temperature of approximately 1.9 K (−271.25 °C). The initial particle beams are due for injection in August 2008,[2] the first attempt to circulate beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10,[3] and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.[4]

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