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- Llyod
what does the hadron collider do? I'm too lazy to read about it.
- sureshot0
ukit he is too lazy to read.
- invisiblechamber0
- I was really scared to click on that one. Never know what type of rim shot were talking aboutMachuse
- ukit0
Let me explain it this way then
- Llyod0
we all gonna die!
- ukit0
Synchronize watches
- Llyod0
seriously though what are the benefits from doing this? it has to be worth something more than knowledge. like cold fusion or something along those lines.
- boobs0
I think the idea is that it's going to fuse all the Europeans together into one big ball.
- ukit0
They are looking for a single kind of particle that has to exist according to their math in order for the universe to function correctly. If they find it, it means the current theories are correct. If not, back to the drawing board.
- cramdesign0
it is like smashing your toy cars together when you were a kid... just better funded.
- ribit0
just click it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lar…
- Jaline0
From the Wiki article ribit posted:
"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator complex intended to collide opposing beams of 7 TeV protons. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the standard model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. This model is known to break down at a certain high energy level.
The LHC is being built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
The collider is currently undergoing commissioning while being cooled down to its final operating temperature of approximately 2 K (−271.15 °C). The first particle beams are due for injection in August 2008, with the first collisions planned to take place about two months later.
When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized novel particles that might be produced, and for which searches are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles."
- Llyod0
they're looking for the God Particle?
- ukit0
the Higgs boson
- ukit0
Physicist humor:
- ribit0
Yes, while at the same time proving Sausage Theory:
"The particles will be guided by more than a thousand cylindrical, supercooled magnets, linked like sausages" (National Geographic)