read the article, i didn't say "they invented the internet" for a reason.

Who in the hell is funding this and what is the estimated cost?

its around 12 billion i think and i suspect it is being developed for some type of military use... :2 cents:

That was the Superconducting Super Collider near Waxahachie, Texas.

It was canceled by congress when spending had exceeded $12 billion after the original plan budgeted $4.4 billion.

look for a special show on the tele titled * the 6 billion $ exeriment

cool doc re: the collider

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If the LHC creates a black hole, it will be a very tiny one that will wink out of existance immediately. And if it is able to do so, mini black holes would be created in nature all the time so they say.

A bigger worry is a "Stranglet Disaster". A strangelet or "strange nugget" is a hypothetical object consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks. The size could be anything from a few femtometers across (with the mass of a light nucleus) to something much larger. Once the size becomes macroscopic (on the order of meters across), such an object is usually called a quark star or "strange star" rather than a strangelet. An equivalent description is that a strangelet is a small fragment of strange matter. The term "strangelet" originates with E. Farhi and R. Jaffe.[1] Strangelets have been suggested as a dark matter candidate.

If the strange matter hypothesis is correct and a strangelet comes in contact with a lump of ordinary matter such as Earth, it could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter. This "ice-nine" disaster scenario is as follows: one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, producing a larger, more stable strangelet, which in turn hits another nucleus, catalyzing its conversion to strange matter. In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot, large lump of strange matter.

Yay!!

that's amazing...

the HARD ON collider would be insane

Don't forget they also built a second parral internet to be used with this thing. It already has something like 20 thousand servers online and was expected to be close to 200k by the end of the year.

It has speeds that would allow a full DVD to be downloaded in less than a min.

I was reading something not too long ago about the possiblility of something like a huge white hole at the center of the universe.

Seems they sent up some experiments recently to do gravity observations, and apparently there are too many cross currents. Check out some of the pics of galaxies colliding.

The big bang theory suggest that everything should be moving roughly outwards at the same speed. These new observations imply that there is a constant influx of new matter at the center.

Could you imagine trying to carry on a general conversation with the guys that engineered the wiring and the schematics? :)

those are some impressive pics....interesting....

The higher the energy, the lower chance of creating them. We've been running ion colliders of lower energies for years without any problems. If anything, the older ones would be much more concerning for a strangelet disaster than the LHC.

Does this mean we won't make it to Internext in time?

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I'm pretty sure they use more than just 2 particles, but they are trying to make atleast 2 of them crash.

http://cache.boston.com/universal/si...8_01/lhc25.jpg

I bet they spent billions of dollars on this thing...and they couldn't hook that guy up with a flat screen? wtf?

That's insane..and huge!! They had to do a really hard work...I hope it works well!!

what the fuck

When i was younger I actually worked at and built part of the ventilation for the the triumph project particle accelerator at University of British Columbia it was spooky even then and it was only 1 mile long .. there will be some interesting info coming from this one ..

Going to be interesting the day they fire that fucker up.

do you know how many couples are getting married on 08.08.2008??? it would totally suck if they all die before consuming the marriage :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I'm pretty sure you mean "consummating" unless you really did eat your entire marriage.

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